Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Archives

NAVIFOR Boss: Virtual Training for ITs Soon to Go Fleetwide

4 March 2020

Navy Information Systems Technicians assigned the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) provision more than 1,500 computer workstations for integration into their shipboard Consolidated Afloat Ships Network Enterprise Services (CANES) system in Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s Network Integration and Engineering Facility. US Navy Photo

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – A recent pilot program tested in the fleet to provide information systems training virtually to shipboard sailors proved...

https://news.usni.org/2020/03/04/navifor-boss-virtual-training-for-its-soon-to-go-fleetwide

Navy Takes the ‘Space’ Out of Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command

3 June 2019

Rear Adm. Christian “Boris” Becker, commmander of Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Command. US Navy Photo

The Navy is rebranding its organization tasked with acquiring and maintaining its information technology backbone and satellite networks to place an emphasis on information warfare, according to a Monday video statement from Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) is now Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) as part of...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/03/navy-takes-the-space-out-of-space-and-naval-warfare-systems-command

Navy, Marines Exercising How to Use Information Warfare in Future Conflicts

12 April 2019

Marine Corps RQ-21 Blackjack used as part of the ANTX West 2019 Exercise on April 4, 2019. US Navy Photoarine

NAVAL BASE POINT LOMA, Calif. — After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had two years to rebuild the Navy into the force that helped win World War II. In today’s era of great power competition from China and Russia, officials say, the Navy won’t have that kind of time.

“The pace of warfare at sea in the 1940s was the pace of ships and airplanes. The pace of war in this century – if it...

https://news.usni.org/2019/04/12/navy-marines-exercising-how-to-use-information-warfare-in-future-conflicts

Artificial Intelligence Could Speed Up Navy Training as New Tech is Rapidly Fielded

21 February 2019

Fire Controlman (Aegis) 2nd Class Savian Wadsworthy stands watch as the radar systems controller in the combat information center aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) in the Mediterranean Sea, Dec. 30, 2018. Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is on its sixth patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S national security interests in Europe and Africa. US Navy photo.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Artificial intelligence could be used not...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/21/artificial-intelligence-speed-training-new-tech-rapidly-fielded

WEST: SPAWAR Systems Centers Rebranded as Naval Information Warfare Centers

14 February 2019

Lauren Burnette, from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific, explains the Battlespace Exploitation of Mixed Reality (BEMR) Lab demo to a visitor at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) exhibit during the 2016 Sea-Air-Space Exposition. US Navy photo.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — In a nod to the rising role of technology and growing importance of information warfare in the battlespace, the Navy will rename Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command’s (SPAWAR) Systems Centers...

https://news.usni.org/2019/02/13/west-spawar-systems-centers-to-become-naval-information-warfare-centers