US Navy – The USS Kitty Hawk carrier battlegroup is ordered to the Gulf, The USS Carl Vinson battlegroup is ordered to the Western Pacific.

• Washington Post: Rumsfeld Orders Key Units to Gulf

Russian Navy – Russia will send 10 warships to the Indian Ocean this year.

• Interfax: Russia to send 10 warships to Indian Ocean in 2003

US Navy – With the USS Valley Forge in the Gulf, enforcing UN sanctions.

• CNN: U.S. sailors enforce sanctions in the Persian Gulf

US Navy – A new acting Secretary of the Navy has been named.

• Virginian Pilot: Retired Air Force general named acting Navy secretary

US Navy – An overview of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

• Sea Power: NOAA