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62nd year, No. 38
Friday, October 13, 2017
NCTS Change of Command Pentagon Begins Another Fiscal Year Under Continuing Resolution By Jim Garamone DoD News
After publically reading of orders, and in timed honored Navy tradition, Capt. Adam Lyons (left) Commander, Task Force 1010, receives a salute from Capt. Andrew Corey (right) who officially relieved Capt. Douglas Schelb (at attention in the center) as commanding officer, U.S. Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station, (NCTS) Naples, Italy, on October 5, 2017. Command passes upon utterance by the relieving officer, “I relieve you, sir!” The officer being relieved responds, “I stand relieved!” NCTS Naples provides U.S. Navy joint, allied and coalition customers all facets of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) for deployed units supporting combat operations assigned to CENTCOM, EUCOM, and AFRICOM Areas of Operation (AORs). Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams
Formidable Shield 2017 Ships Engage Subsonic Targets
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DoD Needs ‘Sufficient, Predictable Budget’ “The department needs a sufficient and predictable budget,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said during an October 5 Pentagon news conference. “This week marked the ninth consecutive fiscal year the department has operated under … a continuing resolution.” White stressed that in the past 10 years, DoD has operated under a CR for more than 1,000 days – nearly three full years. The current CR funds the government through December 8. “Continuing resolutions hurt the readiness of our forces and their equipment,” White said. “The longer the CR lasts, the more damage they do.” White said it is imperative for Congress to pass the budget for fiscal year 2018 quickly and eliminate the threat of sequestration. White said Defense Secretary Jim Mattis asked for this in his testimony earlier this week, and made the same point in his confirmation hearings in January.
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sile defense (IAMD) scenario, defending against three subsonic anti-ship cruise missiles Oct. 7, as part of exercise FormiExercise Formidable Shield 2017 is a dable Shield 2017 (FS17). Naval Striking live-fire integrated air and missile defense and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFOR(IAMD) exercise conducted by Naval NATO) is conducting Formidable Shield Striking and Support Forces NATO on be- on behalf of the U.S. 6th Fleet. half of U.S. 6th Fleet, at the U.K. MinFormidable Shield is designed to imistry of Defense’s Hebrides Range in the prove allied interoperability in an IAMD vicinity of the Western Isles of Scotland, environment, using NATO command-andstarted Sept. 24, 2017. control reporting structures and datalink Ships from Canada, France, Germany, architecture. FS17 is the inaugural iteraItaly, the Netherlands, Spain, the United tion of this exercise. Kingdom, and the United States particiFORMIDABLE SHIELD 2017 Page 11 pated in a live-fire integrated air and mis-
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Right: The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) launches an SM-2 missile to intercept a simulated enemy missile during exercise Formidable Shield 2017, October 7. Formidable Shield is a U.S. 6th Fleet-led, Naval Striking and Supporting Forces NATO- conducted exercise designed to improve allied interoperability in a live-fire integrated air and missile-defense environment using NATO command and control reporting structures. Photo by MC3 Casey J. Hopkins
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Pentagon officials bemoaned the fact that the Defense Department is starting another fiscal year under a continuing resolution. A CR, as it is called, is designed to be short-term legislation that allows the government to remain open as legislators deal with authorizations and appropriations.