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...