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Notice of Intent

 

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Project Overview Fact Sheet

This is an image of the cover of the Northwest Training and Testing Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement project fact sheet booklet.

Military Readiness Activities

At-Sea Training

  • Essential for training military personnel in realistic environments in preparation to defend the United
    States and its territories, allies, and interests.

  • Necessary to preserve the peace, respond in crises,
    and win decisively in war.

  • As realistic as possible to provide military services
    with the experience necessary for success and survival
    in the air and on the open ocean.

 

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At-Sea Testing

  • Includes research, development, acquisition, and evaluation of weapons, systems, manned and unmanned aircraft, surface ships, submarines, unmanned underwater vehicles, and other specialized technologies.

  • U.S. military personnel gain a technological advantage over potential adversaries.

  • Necessary to ensure that technologies perform as designed and expected in the environment where they will be relied upon by the services.

 

This is an image a Sailor guiding an unmanned underwater vehicle into the ocean.

 

Range Modernization and Sustainment

  • Necessary to support military readiness activities; the ranges provide the air, sea, and undersea space necessary for training and testing.

  • Needed to allow for full utilization of new technology, weapons, and systems capabilities.

  • Needed when existing components of the ranges require maintenance or replacement.

 

 

This is an image of Navy and Coast Guard vessels at Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility near Ketchikan, Alaska.