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Mark Pomerleau

Mark Pomerleau is a reporter for DefenseScoop, covering information warfare and cyberspace.

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USS Princeton, missile, weapons — Sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton fire an RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile during the Rim of the Pacific 2016, the world’s largest international maritime exercise, in the Pacific Ocean, July 14, 2016. (U.S. Navy / Petty Officer 1st Class Jason Noble)

Signals intelligence expected to play big role in enabling – and denying – long-range fires

Weapons

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (Sept. 27, 2018) – Sailors stand watch in the Fleet Operations Center at the headquarters of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F). (U.S. Navy Photo by MC1 Samuel Souvannason/Released)

Navy aiming to better integrate cyber, info-warfare capabilities with ‘non-kinetic effects teams’ at sea

Cyber

PHILIPPINE SEA (January 21, 2023) Sonar Technician (Surface) Third Class Kiera Taylor interprets and logs sonar information in the Sonar Control Room aboard Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) during a submarine familiarization exercise with allied forces. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign William Stricklett)

Information warfare personnel could be permanent fixtures on submarines

Cyber

A carrier strike group transits the Pacific Ocean Jan. 25, 2020. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason Isaacs)

Here’s what the new information warfare command in the Pacific is doing

Weapons

U.S. sailors assigned to Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command (NCDOC) man their stations at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Va., Aug. 4, 2010. (DOD photo)

Navy details its plan to build a new cyber-specific work role

Cyber

Navy's Newest Combat Simulator Trains Its First Ships — Lt. Aaron Van Driessche, warfare tactics instructor at the Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS) Detachment San Diego pilots the U.S. Navy’s virtual combat curriculum with sailors aboard USS Paul Hamilton inside the newly launched portable simulator, the On Demand Trainer. (U.S. Navy / Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Millar)

Navy’s information warfare personnel need better virtual training environments

Cyber

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division arrive at Santa Fe during Decisive Action Rotation 22-09 at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Hunter Xue, Operations Group, National Training Center)

Division headquarters will now accompany brigades to combat training center rotations

Weapons

Two soldiers from the 18th Field Artillery Brigade get grid coordinates for a live-fire exercise in Utah Feb.2,2023. This reoccurring exercise, called Scarlet Dragon, is a continuation of each U.S. military branch’s plan to modernize and test systems. (Photo by: Sgt. Erin Conway, 18th Field Artillery Brigade).

XVIII Airborne Corps, other units test their data prowess at Scarlet Dragon exercise

Tech

Jack Reed — Sen. Jack Reed questions Defense Secretary Ash Carter during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2015. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Tim D. Godbee)

SASC chair to focus on reimagining how the military fights

Tech