What is a Surface Force Apparatus (SFA)? The Surface Force Apparatus (SFA) is a highly sensitive scientific instrument used to measure the forces between two surfaces at the nanoscale. It allows ...

Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., the outgoing commander of U.S. Fleet Forces, sent the following message to U.S. Navy surface forces commanders Sept. 1, 2012. The email was presented as a parting message ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) For the past several decades, the surface force balance (SFB) – also called surface force apparatus – has provided pioneering measurements of surface and colloidal forces in ...

The U.S. Navy’s surface force has been working hard over the past year to bring its idea of “distributed lethality” to fruition. Jim Holmes wrote about it here on WOTR last year at this time, and his ...

Responding to global challenges under the leadership of the CNO and guided by the precepts of our “Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority” the U.S. Naval Surface Force has developed its “Surface ...

(Source: Getty Images) A US Navy destroy sits anchored in Tokyo Bay off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan. Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet has reached the final phase of drafting its first-ever, ...

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Bradford Gering, the incoming commanding general for I Marine Expeditionary Force, gives his remarks during the I Marine Expeditionary Force succession of command ceremony ...