Optical comms networks offer some advantages over RF networks, experts say.
Discussions about the eventual phaseout of Link 16 tactical data links are ongoing as the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency works to build out a network for optical communications, according to a senior official involved in the effort.
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Published: Sep 24, 2025 at 05:16 AM EDT
A United States nuclear-powered submarine capable of launching more than a hundred missiles was deployed in the South China Sea during a visit to an allied nation.
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There is something magical about radio waves.
A signal, transmitted in the air, from one antenna to the next, passing information.
All you need is a good receiver and an antenna.
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In the spirit of celebrating the Navy250, Rear Adm. Mike Brookes, COMONI, joined Capt. Devron Eakins, commanding officer of ONI’s Farragut Technical Analysis Center, at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy for a tour of several Navy artifacts including Adm. David G. Farragut’s sword.
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September 25, 1945 – June 8, 1967
Born to Edward Emory and Virginia Maria (Smith) Rehmeyer in York, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Susquehannock High School in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania in 1964, Edward Emory Rehmeyer III enlisted United States Marines in October of that same year.
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By Jack Jones
In the early morning hours of Sept. 24, 1965, I sprawled face-down, struggling to breathe after scaling and leaping from the top of a tall, barbed wire-tipped fence behind the U.S. Naval Security Group operations building in Kamiseya, Japan. About a dozen of my shipmates crawled and wandered in dazed confusion around me.
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