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Gilday Says Navy’s Project Overmatch ‘In Full Swing’ With Carl Vinson Strike Group, Looking To Scale

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, April 3rd, 2023

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Gilday Says Navy’s Project Overmatch ‘In Full Swing’ With Carl Vinson Strike Group, Looking To Scale

The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s secretive Project Overmatch initiative is “in full swing” right now with the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) Carrier Strike Group off the coast of California, the service’s top uniformed official said Monday, with plans to scale the effort in the coming months. Adm. Mike Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations, said the results of the current experimentation with the Caril Vinson Strike Group will inform the next steps with expanding Project Overmatch, which is the Navy’s portion of the Pentagon’s…

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