As she awaits the end of a Senate standoff that will likely see her eventually confirmed as the Navy’s 33rd chief of naval operations, acting CNO Adm. Lisa Franchetti sent a message to the fleet ...

(from top left clockwise) Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Adm. Sam Paparo, Vice Adm. Stephen Koehler, Vice Adm. Jim Kilby. This post was updated with additional details and a statement from the White House.

The following is the Nov. 2, 2023, Pentagon swearing-in ceremony for Adm. Lisa Franchetti to be the 33rd chief of naval operations.

Lt. Lisa Franchetti receives her surface warfare officer pin from Capt. Patrick Shepherd, commanding officer of the destroyer tender Shenandoah, sometime between November 1989 and February 1990.

President Joe Biden has announced plans to nominate Adm. Lisa Franchetti to serve as the next chief of naval operations and Vice Adm. James Kilby to the vice CNO role.. Franchetti, a surface ...

The current vice chief of naval operations with 38 years of service, Franchetti would be promoted to the No. 1 officer’s spot in the service after current CNO Adm. Mike Gilday retires next month.

Whether painful or not, the most recent CNO, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, was presumed by the entire fleet to be a DEI hire, and that immediately sapped confidence in her.

Franchetti’s data analytics staff check the dashboard daily and add updates to CNO briefings, Cmdr. Desiree Frame, Franchetti’s spokeswoman, told Defense One.

Adm. Lisa Franchetti, chief of naval operations, center, poses for a group photo with leadership during a visit to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025.

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard hosted Adm. Lisa Franchetti, chief of naval operations, on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Franchetti met with shipyard leadership, including its commander, Capt. Michael Oberdorf, to ...