Patuxent River News

The U.S. Navy this week announced it has -- for the first time -- successfully launched the X-47B combat-capable aerial vehicle from an aircraft carrier and, separately, set a new record for flight endurance with a fuel cell-powered UAV with the Ion Tiger.

Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division engineer Dr. Linda Mullen demonstrates a laser used in underwater optics at Naval Air Station Patuxent River on March 6. Mullen patented a new encoding method for laser imaging, which offers possibilities for both fleet and commercial use.

For the first time in naval aviation history, a drone was catapulted off the deck of an aircraft carrier and soared into flight.

PATUXENT RIVER, Md., May 14, 2013 - In underwater laser imaging systems, the transmitter and receiver usually are on the same platform, but a new method that places the devices on separate platforms could enhance their performance in murky water.

EASTBOUND work zone blocks the LEFT LANE. Two-way traffic on the WESTBOUND span.

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator sits on an aircraft elevator of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. BushMonday May 6, 2013.

The F-35 Flight Test Update in the Volume 27, Number 3 issue of Code One concluded with the first aerial release of an AIM-120 AMRAAM on 19 October 2012.

MAJOR TANKER TRUCK CRASH: I-81 at Exit 67/ US 322/22 on the North Shore. I-81 REMAINS CLOSED BOTH WAYS between Exits 59 and 70 in Harrisburg following last week's tanker truck crash and explosion.

Howard County health officials say a pipe that ruptured Friday in North Laurel released some 15,000 gallons of sewage, some of which drained into a tributary of the Little Patuxent River.

General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $22,237,386 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to exercise an option for the procurement of six F414-GE-400 install engines for the EA-18 G aircraft.

Chris Jarboe and Melanie Anderson, both with the Sustainability Office Atlantic Test Range, participate in last year's Bike to Work Day ride.

Rear Adm. Alton Stocks, the commander of Navy Medicine National Capital Area and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda, presents Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Vanzorro Gross Jr.

Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division engineer Dr. Linda Mullen demonstrates a laser used in underwater optics at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., March 6. Mullen patented a new encoding method for laser imaging, which offers possibilities for both fleet and commercial use.

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy have conducted the first fly-in arrested landing of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator.

British operational military pilots have begun flying what is being touted as the world's most advanced stealth fighter jet, the F-35. But even as they take to the skies, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has given the clearest indication yet that the UK may not now buy all the jets it had planned.

MD SCOOPLET NEW ADDITION TO DepSecDef STAFF: Rob Berschinski has joined Ash Carter's front office as a special assistant.

Marion Dickens deposits her Labels for Education in the drop box located in the Child Development Center lobby, building 2030.

Capt. Frank Morley, program manager for the F/A-18 and EA-18G Program , presents the Navy's Meritorious Civilian Service Award to Randy Powell, F/A-18 International Business and Foreign Military Sales program manager.

Hurricane Sandy's rains caused 84 million gallons to run off into Maryland bodies of water, according to a report by research organization Climate Central.

The Governor's Bridge Road Bridge was closed Friday afternoon by the Prince George's County Department of Public Works and Transportation after structural engineers determined emergency repairs were needed to ensure safety.