The latest in a series of advanced naval technology exercises (ANTX) provided a lot of new ideas on how to improve maneuverability, communications, logistics and force protection in the highly contested environments expected in a future fight against a peer competitor, a trio of top Navy Department officials said Aug. 1. But the most exciting thing about the recent ANTX was the demonstration of how the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps are working together to meet the challenges of a great power confrontation, James Geurts, the assistant Navy secretary for research, development and acquisition, said at a Pentagon briefing. It was a way "to kind of close the distance between ideas, wherever they came from" and, by using some of the new acquisition authorities, to get new technologies out into the field quicker.
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