MAY 24, 2021 - The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s 2021 deployment cycle brings with it a capability not yet employed by an East Coast MEU. In addition to the more traditional assets allocated to the MEU as it composited ground, logistics, and aviation combat elements in September 2020, the crisis response force was also assigned a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2021
Defense Secretary Tells Cadets They’re Ready to Meet Challenges
MAY 24, 2021 - Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III today told the graduating class of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, that when he was a cadet in the 1970s, his leaders taught him valuable lessons that served him well during his 41-year Army career. During his first commencement speech at West Point, Austin said the academy was particularly rigorous … [Read more...]
Navy to Commission Littoral Combat Ship USS Mobile
MAY 22, 2021 - The Navy will commission its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship, the future USS Mobile (LCS 26), at 10:00 a.m. CDT, Saturday, May 22 in Mobile, Ala. Due to public health and safety concerns related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the commissioning ceremony is private with a limited audience. Mr. James “Hondo” Geurts, performing … [Read more...]
Army 365 Rollout to Bolster Communications, Interoperability
MAY 21, 2021 - A service-wide migration to Army 365 is currently underway to provide Soldiers and Army civilians a cloud-based capability that will bolster collaboration and connectivity, network leaders said Wednesday. Similar to the suite of capabilities under Microsoft 365, the new Army program will improve information sharing with added cybersecurity measures in place, … [Read more...]
Marine Corps Hosts Testing and Demo Days for XFAB
MAY 21, 2021 - Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity hosted a team of design experts who tested the network connectivity of the portable expeditionary fabrication lab, otherwise known as XFAB, on Camp Pendleton, April 5-9. The XFAB is a self-contained, transportable additive manufacturing lab that can deploy with battalion-level Marine maintenance units. The … [Read more...]