A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier has departed the U.S. Navy‘s facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, to undergo sea trials following the completion of a 10-month planned incremental availability.

The Navy said Friday it was preparing USS Harry S. Truman, also called CVN 75, for multiple training exercises that would involve damage control, flight deck operations and simulated combat at sea.

“Truman is ready to tackle the next stage of doing what carriers do – conduct prompt and sustained combat operations from the sea,” said Capt. Ryan Scholl, commanding officer of CVN 75.

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division helped the service branch modernize the Truman carrier under a $52.4 million contract awarded in August 2016.

The PIA effort covered updates to the vessel’s internal and external communication network along with the installation of more than 3,000 Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services assets and the service branch’s tactical afloat network.

Navy and contractor personnel also collaborated to maintain, repair and update approximately 4,500 reactor material items along with shipboard systems, crew living spaces and berthing spaces.

USS Truman will dock at its homeport at Naval Station Norfolk after it completes the sea trials.

President Donald Trump signed Friday an executive order for a cross-government review of U.S. manufacturers’ capacity to support the defense industrial base and the availability of skilled labor to maintain the operations of factories, Nextgov reported Friday.

Peter Navarro, a presidential adviser and director of the White House’s office of trade and manufacturing policy, said Friday in a press briefing that the Defense Department will spearhead the review in collaboration with the departments of Homeland Security, Energy, Commerce and other federal agencies.

The Commerce Department and DHS, for instance, could launch an investigation on “dual use” limitations on exports and imports and their impact on defense readiness under the executive order, Navarro noted.

The EO would require DoD to submit to the president an unclassified report that assesses civilian and military materiel and other products that are critical to national security as well as determines contingencies that may affect the supply chains of goods, according to a White House news release.

The report with a classified annex should be provided within 270 days.

The order also aims to assess gaps in domestic production capabilities related to national security and the defense industrial base’s capacity to undergo modernization in support of future needs.

U.S. Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the U.S. Cyber Command and National Security Agency, has said a national dialogue is needed to determine whether the government should have access to digital communications to support signals intelligence activities against terrorism, DoD News reported Saturday.

Rogers told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado he observed technology is accelerating the rate of change in signals intelligence and has placed various areas of communications outside the legal boundaries of government intelligence officers.

“Traditionally, within our legal construct there has been mechanism for the government to access communications with an appropriate court order,” said Rogers, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017.

“Our challenge as a nation is we are now in a position in the digital age where technology has outstripped our legal framework.”

Rogers said citizens must discuss the level of risk and access the government should have; circumstances that call for the use of digital communications for signals intelligence; and the oversight of such activities.

Pilots from Tyndall Air Force Base have flown F-22 Raptors to train with combat air forces from across the Defense Department as part of the Red Flag 17-3 joint, full-spectrum readiness exercise.

DoD said Thursday that 10 F-22 units from the 95th Fighter Squadron performed operations alongside F-35A and F-35B fighter aircraft from the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps during the event.

The report noted that B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit, F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters and E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control aircraft will join the exercises and support operations in the exercise theater at Nellis Air Force Base.

“This Red Flag alone gives us our singular largest fifth-generation footprint, which allows us to learn as we continue to build new ideas,” said Lt. Col. Mark Sadler, 414th Combat Training Squadron commander.

Red Flag was designed to teach participants on how to collaborate in the field when faced with actual threats as well as maximize combat readiness and survivability of the participants.

DoD officials added that the exercise also offers a training environment for the combat air forces along with pre- and post-flight training forums wherein participants can exchange ideas.

The U.S. Navy will commission the lead aircraft carrier of the military branch’s Gerald Ford class during a ceremony that will be held Saturday at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.

President Donald Trump will deliver the principal address at the USS Gerald R. Ford  commissioning event, the Navy said Thursday.

Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations, said the carrier is equipped with new technologies and warfighting systems designed to help transform naval warfare.

“The increased combat power will enable new ways to combine information, ships, aircraft and undersea forces, changing how we operate and fight,” added Richardson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017.

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division delivered USS Gerald R. Ford to the service branch in June following completion of acceptance trials.

CVN 78 was named after the 38th U.S. president and pays homage to his service in the Navy, government and the country.

Susan Ford Bales, daughter of former President Ford, is the ship’s sponsor.

The Navy estimates the service branch will spend up to $43 billion on the construction of the first three Ford-class vessels to replace Nimitz-class carriers.

Gerald R. Ford carriers are designed with reactor and electric plants, electromagnetic aircraft launch systems, advanced arresting gears, machinery control and integrated warfare systems.