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U.S. Navy Operations Specialist 1st Class Frederick Robinson, from Abbeville, Louisiana, stands tactical data coordinator (TDC) in the combat information center (CIC) during sea and anchor detail as the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) departs Azores, Portugal after a brief stop for fuel, October 5, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)

Navy’s new cyber strategy aims to place a premium on non-kinetic capabilities’ role in conflict

"We really need to talk about this a bit more openly," Chris Cleary, the Department of the Navy's principal cyber advisor, told DefenseScoop.

Nov 21, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

Navy testing cloud capabilities on ships for improved, flexible access at sea

“In our work with Flank Speed … we actually physically put a cloud on a ship and are extending that enterprise IT concept more to the tactical…

Oct 13, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

XQ-58 (Photoc curtesy of 96th Test Wing, 40th Flight Test Squadron. Photo by Master Sgt. Tristan McIntire)

Marines kick-off flight testing of XQ-58 Valkyrie drone for ‘penetrating affordable autonomous collaborative killer’ initiative

The event, which took place Oct. 3, was the first of six planned flight tests.

Oct 5, 2023 By Jon Harper

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro speaks with Marines at Manpower and Reserve Affairs on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, May 19, 2023. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. David Brandes)

Navy charters Disruptive Capabilities Office

The Disruptive Capabilities Office will "push the bounds of rapidly delivering warfighting capability through the innovative application of existing and new systems, and harnessing today’s exponential growth…

Sep 29, 2023 By Billy Mitchell

An unmanned underwater vessel (Boeing image)

Marine Corps leader keen on underwater drones that can launch loitering munitions

"Imagine a fully autonomous UUV that can go out, get to within X range of an area, surface and launch thousands of loitering munitions that are fully…

Sep 6, 2023 By Jon Harper

Illustration of Neptune, the Roman god of the sea (iStock/Getty Images)

Navy’s new Neptune office to take charge of cloud management for the sea services

The Neptune Cloud Management Office is intended to help centralize and streamline the acquisition and delivery of cloud capabilities for the Navy and Marine Corps.

Sep 5, 2023 By Jon Harper

A U.S. Marine with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC), participate in Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) training in the United States Central Command area of operations, June 22, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Melissa Marnell)

SOCOM encountering challenges connecting counter-drone systems with software and data

An official compared current constraints with counter-UAS platforms to those often attributed to the Pentagon-wide effort known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control.

Aug 30, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

NIWC Atlantic engineers helped reduce the DCGS-MC footprint while also increasing battlespace awareness capabilities. (DCGS-MC illustration by Wendy M. Jamieson)

The few, the proud, the chatbots: Marines seek new AI tools for geospatial intelligence

The service is looking to refresh technology for the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System-Marine Corps Geospatial Intelligence program.

Aug 11, 2023 By Jon Harper

The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) conducts an underway replenishment with USNS Matthew Perry (T-AKE 9) in the Pacific Ocean, Aug. 5, 2021 during Large Scale Exercise. (Photo by Mark Perdue)

Navy to test Project Overmatch capabilities during Large Scale Exercise

The next iteration of the biennial event will loop in nine maritime operations centers, six carrier strike groups, three amphibious ready groups, 25 ships and submarines, more…

Jul 24, 2023 By Jon Harper

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kevin Holdaway (left) and Cpl. Seth Silveira, low-altitude air-defense gunners with 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion (LAAD), send an electronic signal to jam a drone with the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or L-MADIS, at Marine Corps Outlying Landing Field Atlantic, North Carolina, Oct. 18, 2022. The L-MADIS is an electronic-attack system that counters unmanned-aircraft system by nonkinetic capabilities to destroy or negate aerial threats. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Servante R. Coba)

With RFP on the way, Marines are eyeing a variety of ‘non-kinetic’ counter-drone weapons

A request for proposals for MADIS Increment 1, Block 2 is tentatively scheduled to be released in late fourth quarter fiscal 2023 or early first quarter fiscal…

Jul 10, 2023 By Jon Harper