NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — One of the key measures of effectiveness for any warfighting organization is materiel readiness – the ability to maintain ships, aircraft, vehicles and weapons systems, keeping them in the fight. Ensuring materiel readiness has posed a challenge for military forces...

SAN DIEGO - Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Jackson (LCS 6) returned to Naval Base San Diego Dec. 12 after leading a manned-unmanned team and integrating with Marine Corps aviation assets during exercise Steel Knight 23...

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada - The 805th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Shadow Operations Center – Nellis, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, participated in the U.S. Army's Project Convergence 2022 to experiment with speed, range, and decision dominance to achieve overmatch and...

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - The 705th Combat Training Squadron, also known as the Distributed Mission Operations Center, executed exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Battle Management in a synthetic, joint combat environment, ensuring joint operational and tactical warfighter readiness in the U.S...

MONTEREY, Calif. - As Great Power Competition intensifies, the United States Marine Corps is increasingly being called upon as the nation’s premier expeditionary force. Critical to its success is the strength of its Reserve component, and the ability to augment active duty USMC forces with trained...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - NIWC Atlantic celebrated more than 15 years of strong, industry-focused engagement on April 20 at the 60th Small Business and Industry Outreach Initiative daylong symposium at Trident Technical College in North Charleston, South Carolina...

U.S. Sailors and Marines joined multiple Allied Nations in kicking off U.S. Sixth Fleet’s Exercise Northern Viking 2022 (NV22) in Keflavik, Iceland, April 2, 2022...

U.S. Sixth Fleet stood up Task Force 61 Naval Amphibious Forces Europe/ 2d Marine Division (TF-61/2) to synchronize command and control of deployed Navy and Marine Corps amphibious forces and advance the integrated Marine Corps capability in the Sixth Fleet area of operations (AOO) on March 16,...

NIWC Atlantic wrapped up its largest innovation experiment in years on March 25 at a remote range on base where engineers tested prototypes and explored ways of better integrating some of the Marine Corps’ most sophisticated C4ISR technologies...

Thousands of U.S. Marines and Sailors are scheduled to participate in Norway’s Exercise Cold Response 22, the ninth iteration of this exercise, occurring from March 14 – April 1, 2022...