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Navy Plans To Field Initial Project Overmatch Network on Roosevelt Carrier Group In 2023

Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

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Navy Plans To Field Initial Project Overmatch Network on Roosevelt Carrier Group In 2023

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The first piece of the Navy’s new Project Overmatch is planned to be delivered to the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TRCSG) in 2023, officials confirmed recently. In October, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday directed commander of Naval Information Warfare Systems Command Rear Adm. Douglas Small with leading Project Overmatch to help build the Naval Operational Architecture (Defense Daily, Oct. 15, 2020). This is all aimed at a future naval force where manned and unmanned systems operate in…

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