President Joe Biden has chosen Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, a senior administration official said Friday. If confirmed, she would be the first woman to be a U.S. military service chief.

Admiral Daryl Caudle isn’t coming to polish brass or shuffle paper—he’s showing up with a warfighter’s résumé, a submariner’s ...

President Donald Trump has nominated Navy Adm. Daryl L. Caudle to serve as the Chief of Naval Operations, the highest-ranking position in the U.S. Navy, according to a release put out Wednesday.

President Donald Trump nominated Adm. Daryl Caudle, current commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces, to be the next chief of naval operations, following the firing of Adm. Lisa Franchetti in late February.

Adm. Daryl Caudle, the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces, was nominated to be the next chief of naval operations for the Navy, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told senators Wednesday.

Caudle has served as commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, U.S. Naval Forces Northern Command, U.S. Naval Forces Strategic Command and U.S. Strategic Command Joint Force Maritime Component ...

Admiral Daryl L. Caudle has been nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next Chief of Naval Operations, more than three months after Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the U.S ...

Weeks later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female Chief of Naval Operations. Soon thereafter he fired Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short, the senior military assistant ...

UPDATED: June 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM EDT Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday named Norfolk-based Navy Adm. Daryl Caudle to succeed Adm. Lisa Franchetti as Chief of Naval Operations.

President Trump has chosen Adm. Daryl Caudle as the next chief of naval operations, nearly four months after firing Adm. Lisa Franchetti with no explanation. Caudle, the head of U.S. Fleet Fo… ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday named Norfolk-based Navy Adm. Daryl Caudle to succeed Adm. Lisa Franchetti as Chief of Naval Operations. Caudle has served as commander of the U.S ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has been one of the most prominent GOP critics of Trump’s actions for years – most recently on issues ranging from his second-term Cabinet nominees to the war in ...