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Navy Identifi es Lead for USS Fitzgerald JAGMAN Investigation From U.S. 7th Fleet Public Aff airs


YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) -- The Navy has identifi ed Rear Adm. (lower half) Brian Fort as lead for the USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) investigation being conducted pursuant to the Manual of the Judge Advocate General (JAGMAN) to gather evidence. Fort is a graduate of the University


of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Following commis- sioning through Offi cer Candidate School,


he completed nuclear power training at Orlando, Florida, and Ballston Spa, New York. He earned a master’s degree from the Naval War College in National Security and Strategic Studies and is also a graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College. His past assignments include command


of Norfolk-based USS Gonzalez (DDG 66), deploying as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2. He then commanded Destroyer Squadron 26, serving as the sea combat commander for the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group. Rear Adm. Brian Fort is a native of


Little Rock, Arkansas, and a graduate of the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Follow- ing commissioning through Offi cer Candi- date School, he completed nuclear power training at Orlando, Florida, and Ballston Spa, New York. He earned a master’s degree from the Naval War College in National Security and Strategic Studies and is also a graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College. Fort’s initial sea tour was aboard the


Norfolk-based USS Bainbridge (CGN 25) as the Machinery Two Division offi cer and reactor training assistant. As a department head he served as operations offi cer in the Pearl Harbor-based USS Ingersoll (DD 990) and USS Lake Erie (CG 70). Returning to the East Coast, he served in USS Nimitz (CVN 68) as main propulsion assistant and then immediately returned back to Hawaii in the wake of 9/11 to serve as executive offi cer in USS Port Royal (CG 73). Fort command- ed the Norfolk-based USS Gonzalez (DDG 66), deploying as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2. He then commanded Destroyer Squadron 26, serving as the sea combat commander for the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group. Ashore, Fort served as the U.S. Naval and Exchange offi cer to the Royal Navy at


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BETHESDA, Md. (June 26, 2017) Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division hosts the 14th International Human-Pow- ered Submarine Races (ISR) in the David Taylor Model Basin in West Bethesda, Md., June 26-30, 2017, featuring 21 teams from universities and high schools. ISR, spon- sored by the Foundation for Underwater Research and Education, is the capstone science, technology, engineering and math- ematics outreach event at Carderock and has hosted thousands of young men and women from around the world to design, build and race human-propelled submarines on the ba- sin’s underwater course. (U.S. Navy photo by Devin Pisner/Released)


Carderock Sub Races Draw Worldwide Teams, Promote STEM By Daniel Daglis, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division Public Aff airs


the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dart- mouth, England. Following his tour onboard Port Royal, he served as executive offi cer of the Navy Nuclear Power Training Unit, Charleston, South Carolina, as the Navy Federal Executive Fellow at the George Washington University Elliot School of International Aff airs and on the Joint Staff , J-7, as the Adaptive Planning Branch chief in the Joint Operational War Plans Division. He also commanded the Navy Nuclear Pow- er Training Unit, Ballston Spa and served on the staff of Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic as the director of the Com- mander’s Action Group. His personal awards include the Legion


of Merit (three awards), Defense Merito- rious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (fi ve awards), the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and various unit and campaign med- als.


WEST BETHESDA, Md. (NNS) -- Stu- dents of engineering from universities and organizations across the country and abroad converged at Naval Surface Warfare Cen- ter, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland, for the 14th biennial International Submarine Races (ISR), June 25-30. Human-powered submarines in the


shape of everything from a shark to an ice cream cone with all the fi xings were raced by 21 participating teams in the 1,886-foot Deep Water Basin, which is just one of the three sections that make up the 3,200-foot- long David Taylor Model Basin building at Carderock. The ISR has been a premier science,


technology, engineering and math (STEM) event for 28 years; it is sponsored by the Foundation for Underwater Research and Education (FURE) and hosted by Carderock, the Offi ce of Naval Research and Program Executive Offi ce Submarines. ISR challenges students to design, build and race a one- or two-person human-pow- ered submarine on an underwater course. Former Carderock commanding offi cer and current president of FURE, retired Navy Capt. Charles Behrle, said the David Taylor Model Basin has proven to be the perfect environment for the races over the years. “The fi rst races were held off the coast


of Florida in the surf,” Behrle said. “One of our biggest concerns with ISR is the safety for the participants, so when you’re in the surf and the winds pick up and the seas pick up, it makes it more challenging. One of the fi nal races they had down in Florida was almost completely all blacked out because of weather. The Basin came up in planning discussions and the Navy agreed to host the event, which is great because it provides us with a safer indoor facility that can accom- modate up to 25 or 30 teams.” The inaugural race was held in June


1989 at Riviera Beach, Florida, born from a concept developed by the H.A. Perry Foun- dation and Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Ocean Engineering, before coming to the David Taylor Model Basin in 1994. According to Behrle, the fi rst race in Florida proved very successful, with 19 teams from academic institutions, corpora- tions and independent groups gathered to race their submarines and test their designs. Today, the races have proven an interna-


tional success, with participating teams from Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands. Universities including the University of Michigan, Vir- ginia Tech, the University of Washington and even some high schools including Sus- sex County Technical School in Sparta, New Jersey, and Mosley High School in Lynn Ha- ven, Florida, participated in this year’s races. Also participating is an independent group from Accokeek, Maryland, called Kids into Discovering Science that started as a family aff air, grew into mostly home-schooled chil-


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