The Guyana Defence Force and Florida National Guard participated in a multinational military exercise in the Caribbean, conducting bilateral engagements to increase cross-cultural, technical, and tactical interoperability.
More than 17,600 members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the U.S. military participated in Balikatan 2023, an annual bilateral exercise between the two allies and the largest iteration of Balikatan to date.
Ships from the navies of Japan and Italy sailed together and conducted combined training in the Gulf of Aden while operating under two multinational maritime partnerships, Combined Maritime Forces and European Union Naval Forces.
The U.S. Navy Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group with the embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit concluded two successful training events with the Swedish Armed Forces and Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 while operating in the Baltic Sea.
A NATO task group resumed its patrols in the Central Mediterranean as part of NATO's maritime security operation, Operation Sea Guardian, which increases cooperation and interoperability.
Navy Large Scale Exercise 20 was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, so those training objectives were rolled into NLSE 21, resulting in a massive exercise, including 25,000 U.S. Sailors and Marines across 17 time zones.
Several companies including PLEXSYS Interface Products, Inc. have been awarded a $950 million contract for the U.S. Department of Defense's Joint All Domain Command and Control concept.
The U.S. Marine Corps Program Manager for Training Systems has awarded Saab the Force on Force Training Systems - Next the Single Award Task Order Contract.