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U.S. Tenth Fleet | |
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Active | May 1943 – June 1945 29 January 2010 – present |
Country | United States |
Branch | United States Navy |
Type | Fleet |
Role | Cyber operations |
Part of | U.S. Fleet Cyber Command |
Garrison/HQ | Fort Meade, Maryland, U.S. |
Nickname(s) | "TENTHFLT" |
Website | http://www.public.navy.mil/fcc-c10f/Pages/home.aspx |
Commanders | |
Current commander | Vice Admiral Craig A. Clapperton |
The U.S. Tenth Fleet is a functional formation and a numbered fleet in the United States Navy. It was first created as an anti-submarine warfare coordinating organization during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War. It was reactivated as a force provider for Fleet Cyber Command on 29 January 2010.[1] U.S. Tenth Fleet serves as the numbered fleet for U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and exercises operational control of assigned naval forces to coordinate with other naval, coalition and Joint Task Forces to execute the full spectrum of cyber, electronic warfare, information operations, and signal intelligence capabilities and missions across the cyber, electromagnetic, and space domains.
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