03 April 2023 3rd OSS Tests Landing Zone Capabilities at Home, Abroad JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- What once was a four-strip, prepared airfield during World War II now sits overgrown and unused, with only two unimproved landing surfaces at Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. Now a tourist attraction, North Field is as close as Landing Zone Officers (LZOs)...
03 April 2023 Intent to Open U.S. Embassy Port Vila, Republic of Vanuatu U.S. Department of State - To further strengthen the bilateral relationship, the U.S. Department of State has conveyed the U.S. intent to the Ni-Vanuatu Government to open an embassy in the Republic of Vanuatu, subject to Congressional notification.Consistent with the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, a...
03 April 2023 Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, Republic of Korea Navy Conduct Bilateral Maritime Exercise USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) -- The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (NIMCSG) conducted a bilateral maritime exercise with the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) March 27.The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Decatur (DDG 73) and USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108)...
31 March 2023 1st Multi-Domain Task Force Deploys the Army’s First Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon System U.S. Army - Army Secretary Christine Wormuth predicted “fiscal year 23 will be the year of long-range precision fires.” at Breaking Defense in 2021.In February, the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force (1st MDTF) long-range fires battalion, 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (5-3 LRFB), deployed the...
31 March 2023 NIWC Pacific and Its Partners are Building a Quantum Navy SAN DIEGO, California -- Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific’s mission touches cyber, sea, space — and, since 2000, the subatomic realm.We make sense of the first three through programming rules and various fields of classical mechanics; the fourth is something else entirely.For one,...
31 March 2023 Wanted: Industry Partners to ‘SCOUT’ for Solutions to U.S. Pacific Fleet Challenges WASHINGTON -- From its inception, the Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored SCOUT campaign has reached across government and private industry to rapidly source and incubate innovative solutions to warfighter problems — and deliver those solutions to the fleet to address the operational gaps of...
31 March 2023 Framework Arrangement Enables First Survey Mission for Americans Missing from World War II in Indonesia U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Indonesia -- The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) signed a Framework Arrangement with the Government of Indonesia March 21 that permits the first DPAA joint research and survey mission later this year of Americans missing from World War II in Indonesia.Concluding...
31 March 2023 Readout of Ambassador Tai’s Meeting with ROK President SEOUL, U.S. Embassy in Consulate in the Republic of Korea -- United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai met today with the President of the Republic of Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol.Ambassador Tai and President Yoon discussed the joint commitment of the United States and Korea to further strengthening...
30 March 2023 F-35s Arrive at Kadena AB to Maintain Advanced Fighter Presence KADENA AIR BASE, Japan -- F-35A Lightning IIs from the 355th Fighter Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, arrived at Kadena Air Base, March 28, to ensure continuous fighter presence through the phased return of Kadena AB’s fleet of F-15C/D Eagles to the United States.While deployed to the...
30 March 2023 Milley Says War With China, Russia Not Inevitable WASHINGTON -- The United States must remain the most powerful nation on Earth if peace is to continue between the U.S., China and Russia, said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, who testified today about the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2024 budget request at a House...