PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) will conduct ARCTIC EDGE 2025, a joint and combined multi-domain Field Training Exercise (FTX) in various locations throughout Alaska from Aug. 1-31, 2025. Municipalities closest to the designated military exercise operating areas include Anchorage, Cold Bay, Delta Junction, Fairbanks, Kotzebue, and Nome.
This exercise will include NORAD and USNORTHCOM forces from Air Forces Northern, Army North, Naval Forces Northern, Marine Forces Northern, Special Operations Forces North, Alaska NORAD Region, Alaska Command, and the Continental U.S. NORAD Region. AE25 also includes participation from UK, Denmark, and interagency partners including the Alaska National Guard, FBI, U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA, Alaska State and local law enforcement, and Alaska Native communities.
AE25 is designed to improve readiness, demonstrate capabilities, and enhance Ally and Joint Force interoperability in the Arctic. Key exercise objectives include executing all-domain command-and-control relationships, roles, and responsibilities in support of Homeland Defense tasks in the Arctic region; opening and setting the Alaska Theater of Operations to include a port opening at Port Mackenzie; demonstrating multi-domain awareness to detect, track, and engage advanced cruise missile threats in the northern approaches; and conducting Joint and Service-level experimentation and technology demonstration in the Arctic.
ARCTIC EDGE is an annual defense exercise designed to demonstrate engaged forces that are postured and ready to assure, deter, and defend North America in an increasingly complex Arctic security environment.
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Video and imagery of Arctic Edge 2025 will be posted at DVIDS - Arctic Edge 2025.
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