CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- U.S. Army Japan (USARJ) hosted their inaugural Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Symposium March 6-8, bringing together stakeholders from the United States and Japan to advance bilateral cooperation on WPS in the Indo-Pacific region.Over the course of three days, the conference...

BUSAN, Republic of Korea -- The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (NIMCSG), including the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), departed Naval Base Busan April 2.Nimitz arrived in the Republic of Korea after participating in combined exercises with the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN).“Port calls are a...

WASHINGTON -- The United States stands steadfastly in support of the Philippines as we announced plans today to expand the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Arrangement (EDCA) to include four new sites: Naval Base Camilo Osias in Santa Ana, Cagayan; Camp Melchor Dela Cruz in Gamu, Isabela; Balabac Island...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, successfully conducted Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 31 Event 1a (FTM-31 E1a).The test demonstrated the capability of a ballistic missile defense (BMD)-configured Aegis ship to detect, track, engage, and intercept...

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)...

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...

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)...

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...

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,...

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...