WASHINGTON — The Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) and the Army Hypersonic Project Office (AHPO) successfully conducted the second High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign on Oct. 26 at 2:30pm EST, the U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs Office public…
Coast Guard Establishes New Base in Oregon
ASTORIA, Ore. — The U.S. Coast Guard held an establishment ceremony Oct. 26 in Warrenton, Oregon, to formally establish Coast Guard Base Astoria. During the ceremony, Cmdr. Todd Wimmer assumed command of the new unit. Rear Adm. Jon Hickey, the…
Navy to Consolidate Fire Scout UAVs on West Coast
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy plans to consolidate operations of its Fire Scout unmanned helicopters to the West Coast in 2023, a Navy spokesman said. The MQ-8 Fire Scouts have been by detachments of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22 (HSC-22)…
Coast Guard Delivers Upgraded MH-65 Helicopters to Air Station Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City received its first upgraded MH-65E Dolphin helicopter Oct. 25 to replace the legacy MH-65D helicopters that serve out of the Coast Guard’s largest MH-65 helicopter unit. The avionics upgrade to…
CSG-4 Exercise Enhances Gerald R. Ford Inaugural Deployment with NATO Allies
NORFOLK, Va. — The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and ships from three North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries completed a three-week exercise orchestrated by Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 4 called Task Force Exercise (TFEX) 23-2 from Oct. 5-23,…
Navy Conducts Final AQM-37 Target Launch
PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The Navy launched the last two remaining AQM-37 targets Sept. 22 in support of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Fires Mission Command operations at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, the Naval Air Systems Command said in…
Mercury’s New Electronic Warfare Combat Training Pod Available for Order Following Successful Flight Testing
ANDOVER, Mass. — Mercury Systems Inc., a leader in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, announced Oct. 25 that its new mPOD, a rapidly reprogrammable electronic attack (EA) training system designed to train pilots using realistic, near-peer jamming…
L3Harris Invests in Seasats to Accelerate New Autonomous Maritime Capabilities to the Navy
MELBOURNE, Fla. — L3Harris Technologies has made a strategic investment in Seasats, a privately-owned company involved in the design and production of low-cost, solar-powered maritime autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) for military and commercial use, L3Harris said in a release. L3Harris…
Naval Stakeholders Assess Lessons Learned from Ukraine Conflict for Future War at Sea
PARIS — Naval stakeholders are continuing to learn lessons from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and are considering the implications of these lessons for future naval warfare. In workshop briefings given at the Euronaval 2022 exhibition in Paris, France, in…
Keel Authenticated for Future USS Robert E. Simanek
The keel for the future USS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7), a Lewis B. Puller-class Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB), was laid at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD-NASSCO) shipyard in San Diego, Oct. 21, Team Ships Public Affairs…
