Lt. Luis Echeverria, the newly appointed commander of Task Group 59.1, spoke with Breaking Defense about the group's role in integrating maritime drones into real-world operations.
The command said the operations were focused on tracking Iranian military and paramilitary vessels.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
The exercise highlighting unmanned tech follows what the Navy sees as the success of the cutting edge Task Force 59 under 5th Fleet in the Middle East.
“We can’t do our best work unless we’re involved a lot earlier,” said Mandy Long, CEO of BigBear.ai.
Unmanned vessels will head to 4th Fleet this summer, with a mission to "deter the flow of drugs" into the US, according to a top Navy official.
The Middle East is proving to be a test-bed for military innovation that could be incredibly helpful for other priority regions such as the Indo-Pacific, write Jasmin Alsaied and Bilal Saab of the Middle East Institute.
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
It's a goal the Navy has had its own eyes set on, and the demo highlighted why it is such a daunting technical challenge.
The event will feature 15 unmanned systems, 10 of which will be operating with the Navy in US 5th Fleet for the first time.
The Navy's top admiral wants to see unmanned platforms operating in the fleet by the 2030s, but has also taken clues from Congress about the service's approach.
New Horizon was the first exercise conducted by a Navy task force focused on unmanned in partnership with the Bahrain Defense Force.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.