NORFOLK, Va. - Kimberly Cedar didn’t meet a female chief petty officer until she had been in the Navy for seven years.
Now serving as Reserve Force Career Counselor at Commander, Navy Reserve Forces Command (CNRFC), Master Chief Navy Counselor Kimberly Cedar is responsible for training and mentoring all 250 career counselors across the Reserve force, while simultaneously serving as an inspiration to women at every leadership level.
“The Navy has changed in so many ways,” said Cedar, who joined in 1994. “We had the first two women in the nuclear program in my bootcamp company. I didn’t realize how significant that was until several years later. It was a lot different in the ‘90’s, and it is great to see women are making up a larger percentage in our military ranks.”
Navy fires reserve unit captain January 22
Navy Capt. Scott Moss was relieved of his duties as commanding officer of the Navy Operational Support Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Jan. 20, 2021. (Facebook) The commanding officer of a Navy reserve center was fired this week after his superiors lost confidence in his ability to command, according to a service release. Capt. Scott Moss was relieved as head of the Navy Operational Support Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Wednesday. While the details behind Moss’ firing were not disclosed, Navy Reserve Forces spokesman Cmdr. Ben Tisdale said it came about following a command investigation that was sparked by an Inspector General complaint.
Navy CIO 2021 priorities: Don’t return to pre-COVID IT practices January 13 The Navy CIO doesn t want the service to fall back into pre-pandemic IT habits. (MC2 Kaila V. Peters/Navy) WASHINGTON In 2020, the year marked by telework due to COVID-19, the U.S. Navy learned that it could move rapidly on IT projects. The service doubled its bandwidth in weeks. It built two new sites for its virtual private networks. It quadrupled its telework capacity. After the service did in weeks what Navy Chief Information Officer Aaron Weis said would normally take years, he wants to ensure that the Navy doesn’t revert to pre-pandemic IT practices that it cast off to enable telework for the service in response to COVID-19.