{"id":182620,"date":"2024-05-22T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=182620"},"modified":"2024-05-22T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:45:45","slug":"u-s-naval-forces-europe-africa-and-u-s-sixth-fleet-standup-all-domain-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=182620","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and U.S. Sixth Fleet Standup All-Domain Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Commander, Task Force (CTF) 66 will drive innovation, development, and acceleration of asymmetric capabilities in support of Allies and partners across the European and African theaters. The task force staff will consist of 40 military and civilian personnel based at Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy.<\/p>\n

While attending the Combined Naval Event in Farnborough, U.K., Rear. Adm. Mike Mattis, commander of CTF 66 noted that the task force reflected the Navy\u2019s response to integrating naval capabilities across all-domains (e.g., information, cyber, space, land, sea and air) in a highly competitive, increasingly contested maritime environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cCTF 66 is just starting this journey,\u201d said Mattis. \u201cWe look forward to working with our government and industry partners to rapidly integrate new capabilities, while also working with our NATO Allies and partners to codify standards that we can all employ.\u201d<\/p>\n

CTF 66 will leverage collaboration between the government, industry and academia \u2013 including pairing operational tacticians with international experts to accelerate development and fielding of new systems at scale:<\/p>\n

– Unmanned \u2013 integrate all-domain unmanned systems (UxS) across the joint force, Coalition, Allies, and partner nations.<\/p>\n

– Maritime Domain Awareness \u2013 support multinational efforts to address transnational issues like illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUUx) activities.<\/p>\n

– All-Domain \u2013 drive operations to integrate capabilities across information, space, cyber, sea, air, and land domains enabled by UxS.<\/p>\n

The task force will work closely with the Navy Disruptive Capabilities Office (DCO) on rapid experimentation and prototyping. It will also work with Naval Postgraduate School\u2019s Naval Innovation Center (NIC) established by SECNAV on ways to accelerate technology solutions and applications.<\/p>\n

CTF 66 recently participated in Triton surface\/subsurface drone testing from aboard USS Hershel \u201cWoody\u201d Williams (ESB 4) during exercise Obangame Express off the coast of Gabon, Africa. In the coming months, the task force will support several more exercises in the European and African theaters, including Baltops, Dacia, Seabreeze, Phoenix Express, and Cutlass Express. These exercises will validate concepts of operations, accelerate capability development, and support integration across fleet operations as well as with Allies and partners.
For over 80 years, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-U.S. Naval Forces Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF) has forged strategic relationships with Allies and partners, leveraging a foundation of shared values to preserve security and stability.<\/p>\n

Headquartered in Naples, Italy, NAVEUR-NAVAF operates U.S. naval forces in the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) areas of responsibility. U.S. Sixth Fleet is permanently assigned to NAVEUR-NAVAF, and employs maritime forces through the full spectrum of joint and naval operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commander, Task Force (CTF) 66 will drive innovation, development, and acceleration of asymmetric capabilities in support of Allies and partners across the European and African theaters. The task force staff will consist of 40 military and civilian personnel based at Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy. While attending the Combined Naval Event in Farnborough, U.K., Rear. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":141345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182622,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182620\/revisions\/182622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}