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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A sailor whose entire face is covered by a white helmet and dark glasses sits in a helicopter cabin over the ocean and drops a device into it.

Water Robot

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Sanderson launches an oceanographic profiling float, an underwater robot used to monitor the world's oceans, from the cabin of an MH-60S Sea Hawk above the Indian Ocean, June 27, 2026.

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