Celestial Navigation (CELNAV) is one skill that has not been formally taught to Navy officers, depending on one's commissioning source, for more than 15 years. Based on direction from the Chief of ...

Generations of midshipmen at the Naval Academy have been required to learn the toughest and most ancient tenets of seamanship: how to point a contraption called a sextant at a few stars, do some ...

After a nine-year absence from the curriculum at the United States Naval Academy (USNO) and 15 years from Naval ROTC programs, tomorrow's naval officers are once again learning to navigate by the ...

Like the rest of us, the U.S. Naval Academy is trying to figure out a way to outsmart hackers. And they’ve found one, by returning to a time when hackers (and computers) didn’t exist. The United ...

Protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks is an ongoing concern, whether you’re thinking about the electric grid, ports, water treatment plants, or anything else. And a curriculum decision ...

I have loved electronics ever since Lowrance/Eagle introduced its first handheld GPS, with about a hundred buttons on it, back in 1995. Before that, I took a celestial navigation course with a ...

Ever wondered how you would fair at sea or in the great outdoors without today’s advanced technologies? Here’s your chance to learn to navigate the old fashioned way, without even a compass as ...

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The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning, the ...