The Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) became the first warship to deploy with a program-of-record artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Its creators say the system will help the fleet predict and tackle maintenance needs in a far less disruptive fashion.

For the Navy to meet its goal of having 80% of its fleet ready to deploy by 2027, the service must stick to its maintenance schedule.

On Tuesday, Jan. 28, students at Western High School in Anaheim got some sense of what they could experience in the Navy through Strike Team, a virtual reality program in which they could “navigate” a Navy ship through obstacles and then jump into the water on a diving mission.

The Navy’s surface fleet has spent the past 15 months taking down hundreds of missiles and drones fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels at U.S. and allied Navies’ ships, as well as commercial vessels in and around the Red Sea.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins talks with Navy Cmdr. Emily Shilling about her status as a trans service member after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces.

In November, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, a Wash100 Award recipient, expanded the program to include air and maritime systems and applications. The new capabilities are expected to enable the Pentagon to deliver all-domain attritable autonomous systems to warfighters by August 2025.

However, Friday’s correspondence was intended to remind sailors that they’re prohibited from using any “publicly accessible, open-source AI programs or systems,” Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, a Navy spokesman, told Stars and Stripes by email Wednesday.

Navy looks to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory over Bucknell. The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season.

As ships collect ever more sensor data, Navy information warfare officers have to figure out how to quickly process information without getting bogged down.

The former Republican congressman and frequent Donald Trump critic slammed Newsmax host Carl Higbie over his on-air stunt mocking a woman who posted a video online who said there should be “no tacos (and) no enchiladas,” or other Mexican food, for Trump supporters.

Britain has awarded a 285-million-pound ($355.57 million) contract to London-listed BAE Systems to upgrade the Ministry of Defence's Royal Navy combat systems, the government said on Tuesday.