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White House Press Secretary Psaki Issues Statement on Colonial Pipeline Incident
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The White House issued the following statement on May 10, 2021, by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the Colonial Pipeline incident:
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The President continues to be regularly briefed on the Colonial Pipeline incident.
The Administration is continually assessing the impact of this ongoing incident on fuel supply for the East Coast. We are monitoring supply shortages in parts of the Southeast and are evaluating every action the Administration can take to mitigate the impact as much as possible.
The President has directed agencies across the Federal Government to bring their
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WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The White House issued the following statement on May 10, 2021, by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the Colonial Pipeline incident:
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The President continues to be regularly briefed on the Colonial Pipeline incident.
The Administration is continually assessing the impact of this ongoing incident on fuel supply for the East Coast. We are monitoring supply shortages in parts of the Southeast and are evaluating every action the Administration can take to mitigate the impact as much as possible.
The President has directed agencies across the Federal Government to bring theirresources to bear to help alleviate shortages where they may occur.
Space & Missile Systems Center Receives Northrop Grumman Vela Satellite Model
LOS ANGELES AFB, California, May 11 -- The U.S. Space Force issued the following news release:
Representatives from Northrop Grumman presented a full-scale Vela satellite model to the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center here, May 4, 2021.
During the unveiling event, Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson, Commander of SMC and Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space, thanked Northrop Grumman for the donation and said the model will be on permanent display at SMC, to inspire future generations of Airmen and Guardians.
"We're happy to have this model continue to stand here as a testament
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LOS ANGELES AFB, California, May 11 -- The U.S. Space Force issued the following news release:
Representatives from Northrop Grumman presented a full-scale Vela satellite model to the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center here, May 4, 2021.
During the unveiling event, Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson, Commander of SMC and Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space, thanked Northrop Grumman for the donation and said the model will be on permanent display at SMC, to inspire future generations of Airmen and Guardians.
"We're happy to have this model continue to stand here as a testamentto those programs and those people who came before us and the incredible systems those organizations of the past created that modeled the way for all of us to create similarly innovative and remarkable satellite systems in the future, with our industry partners," Thompson said.
The Vela satellite system was the first space-based system used for nuclear surveillance. Originated on Dec. 15, 1960 by the U.S. Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, the Atomic Energy Commission and NASA, this system was designed to detect nuclear detonations by detecting neutrons, x-rays and gamma ray radiation from nuclear explosions in the Earth's atmosphere.
"The ability to detect nuclear detonations has played a key role in preventing nuclear war, throughout the entire nuclear age, from the earliest days of the cold war until now," Thompson said. "Before the Vela satellites, the U.S. and our NATO allies used a range of sensors to 'sniff' for nuclear particles in the air around the world," such as the WC-135 "sniffer" jets.
"The successful collaboration of government and industry teams is noteworthy on numerous technical and scientific fronts, including the speed at which the satellites were developed and launched," said Tom Wilson, vice president and general manager of the Strategic Space Systems Division of Northrop Grumman. "This speed enabled the inaugural pair of Vela Hotel satellites to be launched on Oct. 17, 1963, within one week of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty going into effect. This was followed by a 21-year-run of high reliability and precision nuclear detection without a gap in coverage."
Built by TRW, which later became part of Northrop Grumman, there were a total of 12 satellites, launched in pairs. Each satellite was 54 inches in diameter, 46 inches high and had a liftoff weight of 730 pounds and an orbital weight of 511 pounds. Its orbit was 60,000 nautical miles above the Earth and its original design life was 18 months, although the satellites were operational for many years beyond that.
The Vela program also provided scientific data on natural sources of space radiation including for the Apollo space program. In 1967, the satellites were the first to detect extra-terrestrial gamma-ray bursts, thought to be the brightest and most energetic electromagnetic events in the universe. The last Vela satellite was safely shut down in 1984, but the mission of monitoring nuclear detonations continues with payloads hosted on GPS satellites.
Other ceremony attendees from SMC included: Col. Tim Sejba, Program Executive Officer for Space Development; Col. John Dukes, Deputy Program Executive Officer for Space and Director of Staff; Chief Master Sergeant Lisa Arnold, Command Chief Master Sergeant; and Cordell DeLaPena Jr., program executive officer for space production; along with Jim Simons from the Air Force Association; and Steve Scott, Maj. Gen. (Ret.), Tav Taverney and Bob Marohn from the SMC Heritage Society.
Other Northrop Grumman officials who attended the ceremony included Cyrus Dhalla, vice president of Communications Systems for the Space Systems division; Ron Squires, leader of Digital Transformation for Strategic Space Systems Division; and Arnie Streland, Corporate Executive Lead, Los Angeles Northrop Grumman, Strategy & Development.
The U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center, located at the Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, is the Department's center of excellence for acquiring and developing military space systems. Its portfolio includes the Global Positioning System, military satellite communications, defense meteorological satellites, space launch and range systems, satellite control networks, space based infrared systems, and space domain awareness capabilities.
SEC Issues Order Involving Gregory P. Herlean
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following order (No. 3-20289) involving Gregory P. Herlean:
In the Matter of Gregory P. Herlean, Respondent.
ORDER INSTITUTING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(b) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS
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The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") deems it appropriate and in the public interest that public administrative proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act")
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WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following order (No. 3-20289) involving Gregory P. Herlean:
In the Matter of Gregory P. Herlean, Respondent.
ORDER INSTITUTING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(b) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS
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The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") deems it appropriate and in the public interest that public administrative proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act")against Gregory P. Herlean ("Herlean" or "Respondent").
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In anticipation of the institution of these proceedings, Respondent has submitted an Offer of Settlement (the "Offer") which the Commission has determined to accept. Solely for the purpose of these proceedings and any other proceedings brought by or on behalf of the Commission, or to which the Commission is a party, and without admitting or denying the findings herein, except as to the Commission's jurisdiction over him and the subject matter of these proceedings and the findings contained in paragraph III.2 below, which are admitted, Respondent consents to the entry of this Order Instituting Administrative Proceedings Pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, Making Findings, and Imposing Remedial Sanctions ("Order"), as set forth below.
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On the basis of this Order and Respondent's Offer, the Commission finds that
1. From approximately January 2015 through May 2019, Herlean, through CapSource, Inc. ("CapSource"), an entity he owned and controlled with his business partner, acted as an unregistered broker or dealer by selling over $151 million of securities for approximately 60 different issuers. Herlean did not hold any securities licenses and was never registered as a broker or dealer or associated with a registered broker-dealer. Herlean, age 42, is a resident of Henderson, Nevada.
2. On May 5, 2021, a final judgment was entered by consent against Herlean, permanently enjoining him from future violations of Sections 5(a), 5(c), and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act") and Sections 10(b) and 15(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder in the civil action entitled Securities and Exchange Commission v. CapSource, Inc. et al., Civil Action Number 2:20-cv-02303-RFB-DJA, in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
3. The Commission's complaint alleged that, among other things, while acting as an unregistered broker, Herlean committed fraud and registration violations in connection with the sale of securities benefiting CapSource's largest client ("Individual 1") and certain entities related to his drug rehabilitation business ("Company A"). In particular, Herlean was an indirect seller, or in the alternative, a necessary participant and substantial factor in non-exempt, unregistered securities offerings raising over $28 million for entities relating to Company A. Herlean knew, or was reckless in not knowing, that Individual 1 diverted millions of dollars of proceeds raised by CapSource for various projects managed by Individual 1 and, unbeknownst to investors, used them to support Company A's ailing operations. Herlean then helped raise approximately $10 million for entities associated with Company A in multiple fraudulent securities offerings in a failed attempt to cure Company A's financial woes. Herlean's fraudulent conduct included, among other things, making material misrepresentations to investors about using the new offering proceeds for future renovations to Company A's primary facility, while instead allowing Individual 1 to use a substantial amount of those proceeds to partially repay, and thereby conceal, the improper diversion of funds that had occurred.
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In view of the foregoing, the Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest to impose the sanctions agreed to in Respondent Herlean's Offer.
Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED pursuant to Section 15(b)(6) of the Exchange Act, that Respondent Herlean be, and hereby is barred from association with any investment adviser, broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer, municipal advisor, transfer agent, or nationally recognized statistical rating organization; and Pursuant to Section 15(b)(6) of the Exchange Act, Respondent Herlean be, and hereby is barred from participating in any offering of a penny stock, including: acting as a promoter, finder, consultant, agent or other person who engages in activities with a broker, dealer or issuer for purposes of the issuance or trading in any penny stock, or inducing or attempting to induce the purchase or sale of any penny stock.
Any reapplication for association by the Respondent will be subject to the applicable laws and regulations governing the reentry process, and reentry may be conditioned upon a number of factors, including, but not limited to, compliance with the Commission's order and payment of any or all of the following: (a) any disgorgement or civil penalties ordered by a Court against the Respondent in any action brought by the Commission; (b) any disgorgement amounts ordered against the Respondent for which the Commission waived payment; (c) any arbitration award related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order; (d) any self-regulatory organization arbitration award to a customer, whether or not related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order; and (e) any restitution order by a self-regulatory organization, whether or not related to the conduct that served as the basis for the Commission order.
By the Commission.
Vanessa A. Countryman, Secretary
Pacific Northwest Lab: Energy for the Long Run
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature on May 10, 2021:
Bochum, Germany, is a world away from Richland, Washington, and a friendship helped bridge that gap for Marcel Baer.
A pivotal contact 15 years ago helped lead Baer, then pursuing a chemistry PhD at Ruhr University in Bochum, to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland.
Today, Baer is a computational scientist working in PNNL's Physical Sciences Division with a prominent effort in materials science and physical bioscience. Before his arrival
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WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature on May 10, 2021:
Bochum, Germany, is a world away from Richland, Washington, and a friendship helped bridge that gap for Marcel Baer.
A pivotal contact 15 years ago helped lead Baer, then pursuing a chemistry PhD at Ruhr University in Bochum, to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland.
Today, Baer is a computational scientist working in PNNL's Physical Sciences Division with a prominent effort in materials science and physical bioscience. Before his arrivalin 2011, Baer had already worked closely with two scientists who would later become PNNL Lab Fellows. One of them, Chris Mundy, helped Baer choose PNNL.
While pursuing his doctoral degree, Baer secured a summer internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where he met Mundy, a group leader at Livermore. Baer became a valued collaborator in his brief stint, catching Mundy's attention.
They kept in contact. In his final year at Ruhr University, Baer joined Mundy for an extended research visit at PNNL, where Mundy had moved. When Baer completed his PhD, he was selected as one of the first recipients at PNNL of the Linus Pauling Fellowship. He arrived at PNNL and resumed his collaboration with Mundy as mentor. In a decade's span, they have co-authored 40 research papers.
"Marcel is devoted to understanding the molecular nature of collective phenomena. He does really insightful work in unraveling the details of spectroscopic measurements," Mundy said. "What does that mean in terms of being a colleague? He's reliable and he's accountable. And he's responsible and responsive, right? That's a great colleague."
A low-key star
And by his own admission, Baer, to this point, has kept a low media profile outside of PNNL.
"Well, to be honest," Baer said with a chuckle, "I kind of like flying low under the radar."
That may be, but his proficiency with science and math was readily apparent to anyone who knew the youngster in a small town in western Germany. "There was something about fractions that are so intuitive to me," Baer said, recalling that soon he was joining his older sister for her math homework. "I wouldn't say that I'm like a prodigy or anything, but solving math equations seemed not complicated, but natural."
With a brain for math and science, the son of two accountants figured he was headed to a medical school. Then chemistry intervened, thanks to a high-school physics teacher.
"Even though it was a physics class, he was always teaching a chemistry perspective," Baer said. "That's where my interest in spectroscopy started. That's where I became fascinated with how a molecule is moving and how to identify molecules. So, yeah, even though it was a physics class that's what probably put me on that pathway."
The path led in 2003 to Ruhr University, not far from the western German city where he grew up. At the university, Baer encountered Roger Rousseau, then a university research associate in theoretical chemistry.
"I remember this clean-cut kid--neatly dressed, really short hair--who'd show up for work at 5 or 6 a.m., the same time as me," said Rousseau, who today is a PNNL research group leader and Lab Fellow--one of the two, along with Mundy, that Baer encountered at the start of his career.
Baer joined Rousseau on a research project. Rousseau said he was wary of the young student, mostly because the preceding research intern had collected unusable data.
"We had to throw it all out," Rousseau recalled about the predecessor's work.
Baer, in contrast, exceeded expectations.
"He did a fantastic job on those calculations," said Rousseau. "He was very careful, and he did a very thorough analysis."
With the research completed, Baer also helped write a Journal of Physical Chemistry paper, published in 2006, that explored elastin, the protein that allows human connective tissue to resume shape after stretching or contracting. It was Baer's first research paper as a contributor.
As his career unfolded, it would be one of several examples where colleagues noticed the traits that were displayed in collecting the data for that first paper: Baer is a meticulous researcher, someone who is extraordinarily careful in his methodology and procedures.
"He's creative, too," said Mundy, a PNNL Lab Fellow. "Those collective traits really are not all that common in science. The lab is very lucky to have someone with those qualities in its ranks."
In it for the long haul
Baer will soon bring his research, and those attributes, to the Energy Sciences Center (ESC), a new research laboratory on Richland's main campus set to open in fall 2021. The facility will elevate PNNL's stature as a leading innovator in chemistry and catalysis, materials science, and energy storage research.
As he prepares to move into the ESC, Baer also is preparing for another destination. On July 10, he will run in the 50-mile event of the Mt. Hood Races, held near Timothy Lake on the south side of the mountain. He had to enter a lottery to be among the 150 participants.
"It will be my first attempt going that distance," he said.
Baer can see some of the parallels between his efforts in the lab and training on a trail.
"There's a lot of pain when you do training and there's a similar pain in pursuing a scientific goal, if you want to do it right," he said. "There are no short cuts. Research demands a long view, with hard-earned rewards. Sprinting has no benefit."
"The great benefit of this building is bringing a broad spectrum of groups together--synthetic chemists, physical chemists, theoretical chemists, material scientists. Many of these researchers have been spread around the PNNL campus. Now, many groups will be co-located in the ESC, which is a tremendous benefit. One of the strengths of PNNL is having the expertise of people doing 20 years, 30 years of research science. If you're closer together, you're bumping into each other more frequently or you have the chance of communicating faster, not through an email that you put off for like a week or so."
Broadly, Baer contributes to PNNL's strides in energy conversion, transforming chemical energy to other useful forms, including research into novel methods to store energy.
"I often tell people I work in basic energy. My wife tells me to not say 'basic energy' because it sounds too simple," Baer said. "But that's what it is. It's just that the fundamental science behind it isn't so simple."
FEDERAL -- EPA Cleanup to Continue in St. Louis River Area of Concern in Superior, Wisconsin
CHICAGO, Illinois, May 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release:
This week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins dredging contaminated sediment in the St. Louis River Area of Concern at Howards Bay in Superior, Wisconsin. St. Louis River AOC is one of the 43 AOCs identified by the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s as the most environmentally degraded areas in the Great Lakes ecosystem. Sediment in Howards Bay is polluted with contaminants typically associated with fossil fuels such as coal, gasoline and oil. The cleanup extends from Hughitt Slip
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CHICAGO, Illinois, May 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release:
This week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins dredging contaminated sediment in the St. Louis River Area of Concern at Howards Bay in Superior, Wisconsin. St. Louis River AOC is one of the 43 AOCs identified by the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s as the most environmentally degraded areas in the Great Lakes ecosystem. Sediment in Howards Bay is polluted with contaminants typically associated with fossil fuels such as coal, gasoline and oil. The cleanup extends from Hughitt Slipto the head of Howards Bay near 5th and Main Street. This cleanup effort is a combination of routine navigation dredging along with environmental restoration to remove the contamination.
A mechanical dredge will remove approximately 75,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment which will be disposed of at the Wisconsin Point Landfill.
A protective barrier layer of soil will cover the contaminated sediment. EPA anticipates the cleanup will be completed by fall 2021.
EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office is overseeing the $12.1 million cleanup, which is a voluntary project funded by the federal Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and non-federal partners, Fraser Shipyards Inc., Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the city of Superior. GLRI launched in 2010 as a non-regulatory program to accelerate efforts to protect and restore the largest system of fresh surface water in the world.
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: USS Oklahoma Brothers Accounted For From World War II (Trapp, H. & Trapp, W.)
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release on May 10, 2021:
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that brothers, Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Harold F. Trapp, 24, and Navy Electrician's Mate 3rd Class William H. Trapp, 23, of La Porte, Indiana, killed during World War II, were accounted for on Nov. 24, 2020.
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Trapp brothers were assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS
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WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release on May 10, 2021:
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that brothers, Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Harold F. Trapp, 24, and Navy Electrician's Mate 3rd Class William H. Trapp, 23, of La Porte, Indiana, killed during World War II, were accounted for on Nov. 24, 2020.
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Trapp brothers were assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USSOklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including the Trapp brothers.
From December 1941 to June 1944, Navy personnel recovered the remains of the deceased crew, which were subsequently interred in the Halawa and Nu'uanu Cemeteries.
In September 1947, tasked with recovering and identifying fallen U.S. personnel in the Pacific Theater, members of the American Graves Registration Service (AGRS) disinterred the remains of U.S. casualties from the two cemeteries and transferred them to the Central Identification Laboratory at Schofield Barracks. The laboratory staff was only able to confirm the identifications of 35 men from the USS Oklahoma at that time. The AGRS subsequently buried the unidentified remains in 46 plots at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (NMCP), known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 1949, a military board classified those who could not be identified as non-recoverable, including the Trapp brothers.
Between June and November 2015, DPAA personnel exhumed the USS Oklahoma Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis.
To identify the Trapp brothers' remains, scientists from DPAA dental and anthropological analysis. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosome DNA (Y-STR), and autosomal DNA (auSTR) analysis.
The Trapp brothers' names are recorded at the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from WWII. A rosette will be placed next to their names to indicate they have been accounted for.
The Trapp brothers will be buried on June 15, 2021, at the Punchbowl.
For family and funeral information, contact the Navy Service Casualty office at (800) 443-9298.
DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of the Navy for their partnership in this mission.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at http://www.dpaa.mil or find us on social media at http://www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Harold Trapp's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xe0oEAC.
William Trapp's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000Xe0pEAC.
B-52 Hypersonic Kill Chain Employment Success
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska, May 11 -- The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command issued the following news:
A B-52 Stratofortress from the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, conducted a successful simulated hypersonic kill chain employment from sensor to shooter and back during Northern Edge 21, May 5, 2021.
During the more than 13-hour sortie from Barksdale AFB to Alaska and back, the B-52 was able to receive target data from sensors via the All-Domain Operations Capability experiment, more than 1,000 nautical miles away miles away at Joint Base
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JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska, May 11 -- The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command issued the following news:
A B-52 Stratofortress from the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, conducted a successful simulated hypersonic kill chain employment from sensor to shooter and back during Northern Edge 21, May 5, 2021.
During the more than 13-hour sortie from Barksdale AFB to Alaska and back, the B-52 was able to receive target data from sensors via the All-Domain Operations Capability experiment, more than 1,000 nautical miles away miles away at Joint BaseElmendorf-Richardson. Once it received the data from the ADOC-E, the bomber then was able to successfully take a simulated shot of the target from 600 nautical miles away using an AGM-183 Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon.
"We were really exercising the data links that we needed in order to complete that kill chain loop, and then get the feedback to the players in the airspace that the simulated hypersonic missile was fired and effective," said Lt. Col. Joe Little, 53rd Test Management Group deputy commander.
This was a successful showcase of Beyond Line of Sight Kill Chain employment, and notably, was a success in the highly contested and realistic threat environment that Northern Edge provides.
"The team did an outstanding job effecting this event both in planning and execution, said Lt. Col. Matt Guasco, 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron commander. "This is a win for the USAF and greater DOD as a whole but make no mistake, we are just getting started."
The ADOC-E is a joint team represents the operational-level "blue" training audience designed to experiment with synchronizing joint functions in forward locations. The ADOC-E design allows the synchronization of joint functions in forward, contested environment when traditional C2 structure effectiveness is degraded or denied. ADOC-E personnel have coordination authority capable of facilitating long-range joint fires and further hosting future capability provided through and advanced battle management system approach. The ADOC-E use of current and emergent technology provides assessment opportunities for experimental capabilities and concepts and accelerates employment of relevant TTPs and technologies supporting major combat operations.
NE21 is a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command exercise designed to provided high-end, realistic war fighter training, develop and improve joint interoperability, and enhance the combat readiness of participating forces. This is done by providing a venue for large force employment training and multi-domain operations; tactical training for the full spectrum of conflict; execute and advance adaptive basing joint tactics, techniques, and procedures; advance live-virtual-constructive capabilities; and support U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's experimental initiatives.
