Commander, Process Power (CTF) 66 will drive innovation, growth, and acceleration of uneven capabilities in help of Allies and companions throughout the European and African theaters. The duty drive workers will encompass 40 navy and civilian personnel based mostly at Naval Help Exercise Naples, Italy.
Whereas attending the Mixed Naval Occasion in Farnborough, U.Okay., Rear. Adm. Mike Mattis, commander of CTF 66 famous that the duty drive mirrored the Navy’s response to integrating naval capabilities throughout all-domains (e.g., info, cyber, house, land, sea and air) in a extremely aggressive, more and more contested maritime setting.
“CTF 66 is simply beginning this journey,” stated Mattis. “We sit up for working with our authorities and trade companions to quickly combine new capabilities, whereas additionally working with our NATO Allies and companions to codify requirements that we will all make use of.”
CTF 66 will leverage collaboration between the federal government, trade and academia – together with pairing operational tacticians with worldwide specialists to speed up growth and fielding of latest methods at scale:
– Unmanned – combine all-domain unmanned methods (UxS) throughout the joint drive, Coalition, Allies, and accomplice nations.
– Maritime Area Consciousness – help multinational efforts to handle transnational points like unlawful, unreported, and unregulated (IUUx) actions.
– All-Area – drive operations to combine capabilities throughout info, house, cyber, sea, air, and land domains enabled by UxS.
The duty drive will work carefully with the Navy Disruptive Capabilities Workplace (DCO) on fast experimentation and prototyping. It’ll additionally work with Naval Postgraduate Faculty’s Naval Innovation Middle (NIC) established by SECNAV on methods to speed up know-how options and functions.
CTF 66 just lately participated in Triton floor/subsurface drone testing from aboard USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) throughout train Obangame Categorical off the coast of Gabon, Africa. Within the coming months, the duty drive will help a number of extra workout routines within the European and African theaters, together with Baltops, Dacia, Seabreeze, Phoenix Categorical, and Cutlass Categorical. These workout routines will validate ideas of operations, speed up functionality growth, and help integration throughout fleet operations in addition to with Allies and companions.
For over 80 years, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-U.S. Naval Forces Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF) has solid strategic relationships with Allies and companions, leveraging a basis of shared values to protect safety and stability.
Headquartered in Naples, Italy, NAVEUR-NAVAF operates U.S. naval forces within the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) areas of duty. U.S. Sixth Fleet is completely assigned to NAVEUR-NAVAF, and employs maritime forces by the total spectrum of joint and naval operations.
