Sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered in the Atlantic Ocean from a high-altitude balloon for transport to federal agents at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek Feb. 10, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan Seelbach)
A Czech Special Forces member provides ground support while U.S. Army Special Forces perform a static-line jump during Emerald Warrior 22.1 at Hurlburt Field, Florida, May 5, 2022. Emerald Warrior is the largest joint special operations exercise involving U.S. Special Operations Command forces training for response to various threats above and below the threshold of armed conflict. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joseph P. LeVeille)
Lt. Cmdr. Douglas K. McKenzie, executive officer, USS New Mexico (SSN-779) gives Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach, Commander, Naval Information Forces a tour of the submarine. USS New Mexico is one of two SSNs participating in the Information Warfare (IW) Pilot program, which assigns IW officers and Sailors about the SSNs to pilot close integration and employment of IW on these platforms. (U.S. Navy Photo by Robert Fluegel / Released)
Committee chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and ranking member Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) take their seats as they arrive for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill March 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Sen. Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, believes the nature of emerging technology has fundamentally changed the nature of national security.
Formally approved and established on March 1, the new Digital Capabilities Directorate is working to leverage best practices implemented by commercial companies to pave the way for…
U.S. Soldier Spc. Mitchell Mcneil, assigned to 82nd Airborne 3rd Brigade Combat Team, trains with the Integrated Visual Augmentation System as a part of Project Convergence 2022 (PC22) at Camp Talega, California, Oct. 11, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Thiem Huynh)
U.S. Air Force Maj. Joseph Hamilton, a Tactical Air Control Party specialist, ensures safety on the range while guiding air support with simulated data received from an Army ground commander during Exercise Scarlet Dragon on Fort Bragg, N.C., February 1, 2023. Scarlet Dragon is a joint exercise synchronizing efforts from all branches using Artificial Intelligence to precisely target an enemy’s location. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Osvaldo Fuentes)
The Army is working on answering questions for what division commanders need the tactical network to do as they zero in on designing it for division formations.
Soldiers with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (2CR) conduct dismounted operations during Dragoon Ready 2023 using the Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) capabilities, which include 2-channel Leader and Manpack radios, single channel radios, and Nett Warrior end-user devices for communications with personnel in the Strykers and command post. The event served as the second ITN operational testing event (Ops Demo Phase II) for Capability Set (CS) 23 (Photo Credit: Sgt. Rebecca Call)
RED SEA (May 11, 2012) Capt. Grady Banister, commanding officer of the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), prepares to release a weather balloon used for retrieving upper air soundings off the fantail of the ship. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Natasha R. Chalk/Released)
The launches are continuing in the wake of several recent shoot downs of unidentified “objects” flying over North America, by U.S. fighter jets launching AIM-9X air-to-air missiles.