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Project Overmatch Communication Network Tests Planned This Year

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

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Project Overmatch Communication Network Tests Planned This Year

Adm. Michael Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations, addresses a question during a Sea Service Chiefs town hall panel discussion at the annual 2020 WEST conference on March 2, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s top officer on Monday said the service’s Project Overmatch plans to conduct a series of increasingly complex communications network tests this year. “I think we’re in a very good vector right now, with four substantive spirals this year, testing and evaluation that begins to deliver that network of networks that I think we so critically need this decade," Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Michael Gilday told reporters during a Defense Writers Group event on April 5. Gilday…

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