In the spring of 2019, the Army awarded a contract to four industry partners to provide non-developmental tactical systems, also known as "off the shelf" technology. The Army will provide the tactical UAS to units so Soldiers in U.S. Army Forces Command can evaluate the system under field conditions. The intent is for each unit to evaluate their assigned system in a realistic, tough training...
2024 marks the 20th anniversary of AFRICOM’s premier and largest annual, combined, joint exercise African Lion. This year’s exercise will take place April 19 through May 31 and is hosted across Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia with more than 8,100 participants from over 27 nations and contingents from NATO. African Lion 24 focuses on enhancing readiness between the U.S. and partner...
Joint Warfighting Assessment 2020 is the Army’s largest annual live, multinational experiment, focused on Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). JWAs focus on refining concepts, capabilities and formations through Soldier and leader feedback at live experiments. JWA 20 features live and constructive elements and will take place in Europe from 13 April to 23 May 2020. Joint Warfighting Assessment 20...
The African Land Forces Summit (ALFS) is a four day engagement event that hosts land force chiefs from across Africa to engage in candid dialogue. This event is the eighth African Land Forces Summit. ALFS is an annual forum designed to bring land force chiefs from across Africa together to forge and strengthen relationships. ALFS 2020 is hosted by U.S. Army Africa and the Ethiopian National...
Soldiers from U.S. Army Pacific (USARPAC) and the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) People’s Liberation Army (PLA) participate in a Disaster Management Exchange (DME) on the Island of Hawaii from Nov. 13-26. The 2019 DME is a U.S. hosted exchange focused on an international HA/DR scenario and will occur in three parts: an Expert Academic Discussion, a Table Top Exchange, and a Practical...
IMX19 is a multinational engagement involving partners and allies from around the world in sharing knowledge and experiences across the full spectrum of defensive maritime operations. The exercise serves to demonstrate the global resolve in maintaining regional security and stability, freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce from the Suez Canal south to the Bab-el-Mandeb through the...
Exercise GLOBAL DEXTERITY is a joint exercise between the 535th Airlift Squadron, 15th Wing, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii and the No. 36 Squadron, No. 86 Wing, Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley, Queensland. Exercise GLOBAL DEXTERITY is designed to Increase force integration across the spectrum of operations and conducting combined military exercises and training events in with...
Multi-Domain Operations (MDO), the Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF) and the Intelligence, Information, Cyber Electronic Warfare and Space (I2CEWS) unit are hot topics that are being discussed in public forums by Army leadership. Cyber Blitz 2019 is helping the Army answer questions about how it could conduct I2CEWS operations in support of the (MDTF) and what the Army needs to do across the...
