Cal Maritime will officially merge and be known as “Cal Poly, Solano Campus,” housing the “Cal Poly Maritime Academy.” This ...

announced on Thursday that the keel laying of the fifth and final vessel in the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) program will be constructed at Cal Maritime Academy in Vallejo.

Cal Maritime, which has a campus in Vallejo and operates a training ship, serves a strategically important niche in higher education. Six state maritime academies together educate most of the nation’s ...

The maritime academy is due to receive a new, 700-student training vessel in 2026, but the school’s interim president, Michael J. Dumont, has warned that without a merger, Cal Maritime “is not going ...