AUGUST 9, 2016, GULF OF ADEN (NNS) - Airmen from the U.S. Air Force 379th Expeditionary Medical Group (EMG), Mobile Field Surgical Team (MFST) and Expeditionary Critical Care Team (ECCT) are embarked aboard amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio (LPD 17). The group will augment and train with the ship's existing medical personnel to provide additional surgical … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2016
F-35A Combat Readiness Celebrated at Hill
AUGUST 9, 2016, HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AFNS) - Hill Air Force Base hosted a ceremony Aug. 5 in celebration of the recent announcement that the F-35A Lightning II is ready for combat. Gen. Hawk Carlisle, the commander of Air Combat Command, declared that the fifth-generation fighter aircraft was ‘combat ready’ Aug. 2. During the ceremony, Carlisle lauded the aircraft’s … [Read more...]
Future Tech Promises More Mobile and Expeditionary Command Posts
AUGUST 9, 2016, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - Mission command, the exercise of authority by a commander to empower leaders to execute missions, is one of the most fundamental aspects of warfighting. Yet, the communications infrastructure that enables mission command is time-consuming to set up and operate, and it is decades old. Mobile and expeditionary command posts must be … [Read more...]
Vinson Completes V-22 Osprey Fleet Battle Experiment
AUGUST 8, 2016, PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) - Aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) completed a Fleet Battle Experiment (FBE) for the future Navy variant CMV-22B Osprey. Commander, Naval Air Forces conducted the FBE, July 22 through Aug. 4. The experiment explored, analyzed and documented the characteristics of operating a detachment of MV-22s for the carrier strike group as a … [Read more...]
DARPA: Autonomous Bug-Hunting Bots Will Lead to Improved Cybersecurity
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 8, 2016 - This week, seven teams whose cyber reasoning bots played in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge proved that machines by themselves could find and fix software safety problems in a simplified version of the code used everywhere, every day. The world’s first all-machine hacking tournament wasn’t the answer to all … [Read more...]