The duty group, generally known as Activity Group 59.1, focuses on the operational deployment of unmanned methods teamed with manned operators to bolster maritime safety throughout the Center East area.
“We’re bringing budding, related know-how to warfighters and doing it quick,” mentioned Capt. Colin Corridan, Activity Drive 59 commodore. “Breaking the molds of the legacy acquisition mannequin requires a degree of connective tissue between business companions and the top person operators, and 59.1 solutions that bell. Our Sailors can be there to make sure seamless integration of recent tech launched to operators whereas in theater.”
Lt. Luis Echeverria, a floor warfare officer with over 60,000 unmanned working hours at sea throughout 34 operations and workouts with Activity Drive 59, assumed command of the duty group, dubbed “The Pioneers”. This chance for a junior officer resembling Echeverria to imagine command is a primary for the unmanned job drive and highlights the rising want for a cadre of consultants at extra junior ranges to be in positions of management.
“Activity Group 59.1 is able to take the capabilities of TF 59’s unmanned methods and constitution new floor with manned and unmanned teaming ideas,” mentioned Echeverria. “We’re ‘the pioneers’ for the way forward for our Navy, and I couldn’t be extra honored to guide this crew.”
In latest months, Activity Drive 59 has carried out a sequence of unmanned workouts to advance lethality at sea. The workouts used reside munitions fired from a T-38 Satan Ray unmanned floor vessel to strike a coaching goal. The munitions hit each time.
Corridan mentioned these achievements require the following tactical step to be dealt with successfully.
“The progressive expertise pool that’s drawn to working with unmanned methods is unmatched, and the operator belief and expertise with robots is in the end creating the following technology of Sailors that can function the hybrid fleet,” Corridan mentioned. “The handpicked crew that’s 59.1, recognized to pioneer this endeavor can be main the way in which for the Navy within the hybrid fleet ecosystem. I’m very excited for what lies forward for the pioneers.”
Established in September 2021, Activity Drive 59 is the Navy’s first Unmanned and Synthetic Intelligence Activity Drive. It has examined, upgraded, advanced and operated with greater than 23 completely different unmanned methods. TF 59 integrates unmanned methods and synthetic intelligence with maritime operations within the U.S. fifth Fleet space of operations to assist guarantee maritime safety and stability within the Center East area.
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. fifth Fleet’s space of operations encompasses about 2.5 million sq. miles of water space and consists of the Arabian Gulf, Purple Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea and components of the Indian Ocean. This expanse, comprising 21 nations, consists of three crucial choke factors on the Strait of Hormuz, the Suez Canal and the Strait of Bab al Mandeb.
