The U.S. Navy championed digital weaponry as the decider of future fights in its inaugural cyber strategy, published in November.
From Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro issuing a frank warning to industry to lessons learned from Houthi engagements, here’s what you may have missed.
U.S. Pacific Fleet head Adm. Samuel Paparo announced the new unit at the West 2024 conference in San Diego.
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said he needs companies to deliver their weapons, warships, aircraft and more on time and on budget and without excuses.
U.S. Navy officials have in the past said Project Overmatch’s rollout would first concentrate on the Indo-Pacific.
More Stories U.S. Pacific Fleet head Adm. Samuel Paparo announced the new unit at the West 2024 conference in San Diego. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said he needs companies to deliver their weapons, warships, aircraft and more on time and on budget and without excuses. U.S. Navy officials have in the past said Project Overmatch’s rollout would first concentrate on the Indo-Pacific. Adm. Samuel Paparo said the US and Japan have modernized their military and industrial base relationships to keep up with the security environment. The undersea menacing coincides with one-way drone and missile attacks on U.S. forces across the Greater Middle East. “Each and everyone of us in this room today has a responsibility to cybersecurity,” said Scott St. Pierre, the service's current principal cyber advisor. The Marines will put a new semi-submersible boat to the test designed to stealthily deliver ship-killing missiles to troops ashore. Navy warfighting development commands are already churning out new tactics for training and operations in the Middle East based on ongoing Houthi attacks. The chief of naval operations said she's bullish on the Navy’s ability to operate a manned-unmanned fleet within the next decade or so. The autonomous MQ-4C Triton intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting drone can fly for more than 24 hours. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are believed to be the first entity to ever fire an anti-ship ballistic missile in conflict. Payloads produced by Northrop Grumman's Project Scion were recently tested aboard a Martac T38 in the Chesapeake Bay. Project Overmatch is the Navy’s clandestine contribution to Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2. The service years ago made information warfare commanders fixtures of carrier strike groups. Load More