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CDR Brennan Cox and the team at USSOCOM Science and Technology led development and execution of Innovation Foundry 16: Contested Logistics in Future SOF Operations. This 3-day design thinking event assembled 80 subject matter experts from industry, academia, and government to propose novel capability concepts for resourcing power, parts, and supplies at the point of need for the untethered SOF operator. Innovation Foundry events allow us to turn warfighter needs into future capability, working with the people who make the tech, “S&T has developed and refined a unique process, the Innovation Cycle, to engage technology pioneers and leaders, and to discover and develop high risk, innovative, and disruptive technologies for future on-boarding. The Innovation Foundry is the first event in the Innovation Cycle and is the idea generation phase.” Want to learn more about Innovation Foundry events and how to participate? Read the call for participants and find future events at the SOFWERX website: https://lnkd.in/gAGqvsfk #scienceandtechnology #scienceandservice #usercentereddesign #designthinking

The Operation Polar Dagger series comes to a conclusion today. Over the past 8 weeks, SWCC and SEALs, U.S. Army and Air Force Special Operations Aviators, and Green Berets, with support from the @usnavy @alaskanationalguard and @uscg operated across the Alaskan Arctic—Bering Sea, Arctic Circle, Saint Lawrence Island, Wales, Little Diomede and Tin City. Over 200 participants traversed the expanse of Alaska to strengthen SOCNORTH’s understanding of the maritime, air and land operating environment, overcome the challenges of maneuvering in the Arctic, and the enhance partnerships with the Alaska Native peoples. USNORTHCOM Headquarters, US Special Operations Command

♠ “To our great partners, thank you for hosting another great Super Garuda Shield Exercise and thank you for being leaders in the region,” said USSOCOM Commander Gen. Bryan Fenton at the exercises opening reception. “Exercises like Super Garuda Shield, especially with Combined and Joint Forces, just don’t happen. They take a ton of planning, coordinating, and synchronizing.” Approximately 3,000 combined armed forces from the United States, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, and New Zealand will participate in Super Garuda Shield 2024 from Aug. 26 to Sept. 6 to enhance combined interoperability capabilities. Super Garuda Shield continues to solidify the U.S.-Indonesia Major Defense Partnership Defense Cooperation Agreement and advances cooperation in support of a #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific. “Super Garuda Shield demonstrates the true power of partnerships,” said Fenton. “These are partnerships that bridge gaps across the interagency, across our services, across our combined forces.” #FriendsPartnersAllies Full story: https://lnkd.in/emEg-WZd

📍 Colombia - SOCSOUTH #StrengtheningPartnerships with United States Southern Command! To bolster military cooperation and interoperability, the armed forces of Colombia and the United States conducted a four-day training exchange on information operations with members from 14 units participating, Aug. 13-16, 2024. Exchanges like this are a testament to the ongoing commitment of both nations to enhance regional security and stability.   En un esfuerzo por fortalecer la cooperación militar y la interoperabilidad, las fuerzas armadas de Colombia y Estados Unidos realizaron un intercambio de información sobre operaciones de información durante cuatro días, con la participación de miembros de 14 unidades diferentes. Este evento es un testimonio del compromiso permanente de ambas naciones para mejorar la seguridad y la estabilidad regionales.   #SiempreFirmes #PatriaHonorLealtad #NuestroCompromisoEsColombia

The #Batcats of Air Force Special Operations Command hosted the USSOCOM command team, Gen. Bryan Fenton and SEL Command Sgt. Maj. Shane Shorter, as well as the Special Operations Command Pacific command team, Rear Adm. Jeromy Williams and SEL Command Sgt. Maj. Walt Zajkowski, on the last stop of their tour through the Indo-Pacific. 🌏 During the visit, they met with Batcats of various specialties, as well as the #353SOW command team, to gain a better understanding of the unit and how they operate. They also had the opportunity to coin 3 Airmen for superior performance in the wing. Thank you, Capt. Paul Fortier, Tech. Sgt. Azania Arnold, and Senior Airman Marlene Guerrero, for your continued hard work and commitment excellence! #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific #CaveteCattam 🦇

As Operation Polar Dagger comes to a conclusion, the 92nd Civil Affairs Battalion wraps up their engagements with the Alaskan Native peoples, leaders and Corporations and completes their assessment of the infrastructure on Wales and Little Diomede. U.S. Northern Command

“Seabed to space, the SOF community is integrating capabilities to close kill chains so that we can deter, and if necessary, defeat an adversary,” said USSOCOM AT&L Acquisition Executive Melissa Johnson at Fed Supernova in Austin, Texas, Aug. 22. “That is of the utmost importance to us. Having our operators close is one of the key things that allows us to go fast.” Johnson and her SOF Acquisition, Technology & Logistics teams, including SOFWERX, attended the Defense #Innovation Event to hold personalized discussions with small business, and collaborate with industry and entrepreneurs overall with the DoD’s tech roadmap for getting our warfighters the capabilities and solutions they need. #People #Win #Transform SOF AT&L Acquisition Executive

SOF-Cyber-Space commands held a collaborative event in conjunction with United States Strategic Command to discuss how the convergence of capabilities provides outsized strategic effects for 🌍 geographic combatant commanders and #partner nations. U.S. Space Command Dr. Douglass Drake, Deputy Director of Joint Force Development and Training, and USSOCOM’s Rear Adm. Matthew Burns spoke to attendees across the #JointForce on the triad #partnership and how collaboration provides timely, comprehensive solutions in current warfare environments. #JointForce #Transform #IntegratedDeterrence #Cyber

⚠️Don't forget to submit your technologies for RDAX Dragon Spear 2024 by Friday (August 23) at noon ET! ⬇️ This CBRN research, development, and acquisition training experiment (RDAX) is a great opportunity for industry professionals to connect with government organizations like JPEO-CBRND, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Army DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center, USSOCOM, and others. #JPEOCBRND #CBRN #Innovation #RFI #RDAX