Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dan Heaton | Michigan National Guard | 05.20.2025
Michigan Gov, Gretchen Whitmer talks with Steve Tezak, director of the Starbase program at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in Alpena, Michigan, May 20, 2025. To the left of Tezak is Cheryl Mack, the program’s assistant director; to the right of Whitmer is Major Gen. Paul Rogers, adjutant general of the Michigan National Guard. Starbase is a program located on military base’s......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dan Heaton | Michigan National Guard | 05.20.2025
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shakes hands with a Michigan National Guard Soldier at the Uncrewed Triple Challenge in Alpena, Michigan, May 20, 2025. About 100 Soldiers and Airmen from the Michigan National Guard helped support the event, which focused on autonomous vehicles traveling a course water, air and land, highlighting both potential military and civilian uses of the technology. (U.S.......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dan Heaton | Michigan National Guard | 05.20.2025
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer shakes hands with a Michigan National Guard Soldier at the Uncrewed Triple Challenge in Alpena, Michigan, May 20, 2025. About 100 Soldiers and Airmen from the Michigan National Guard helped support the event, which focused on autonomous vehicles traveling a course water, air and land, highlighting both potential military and civilian uses of the technology. (U.S.......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dan Heaton | Michigan National Guard | 05.20.2025
Geoff Douglass from Mythos AI talks about his company’s entry in the Uncrewed Triple Challenge with Major Gen. Paul Rogers, Michigan adjutant general, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, at the Alpena Harbor in Alpena, Michigan, May 20, 2025. The first-ever Uncrewed Triple Challenge brought teams from seven states and three nations to compete in an autonomous challenge featuring uncrewed......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dan Heaton | Michigan National Guard | 05.20.2025
Spectators line the shore of Alpena Harbor at the start of the Uncrewed Triple Challenge, an autonomous drone technology competition sponsored by the Michigan National Guard, Michigan Economic Development Corp. and the Michigan Dept. of Transportation, at the Alpena Harbor in Alpena, Michigan, May 20, 2025. The first-ever Uncrewed Triple Challenge brought teams from seven states and three......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dan Heaton | Michigan National Guard | 05.20.2025
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer fires a Michigan National Guard howitzer to signal the start of the Uncrewed Triple Challenge, an autonomous drone technology competition sponsored by the Michigan National Guard, Michigan Economic Development Corp. and the Michigan Dept. of Transportation, at the Alpena Harbor in Alpena, Michigan, May 20, 2025. The governor is flanked by Staff Sgt. David Snyder,......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dan Heaton | Michigan National Guard | 05.20.2025
Alpena Mayor Cindy Johnson welcomes people to the Uncrewed Triple Challenge, as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer looks on at the Alpena Habor May 20, 2025, in Alpena, Michigan. The first-ever Uncrewed Triple Challenge brought teams from seven states and three countries to compete in a unique challenge featuring uncrewed vehicles completing a course of five miles on water on Lake Huron, 58.5 miles of......
Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Dan Heaton | Michigan National Guard | 05.20.2025
Sgt. Brooke Briggson sings along with members of the 126th Army Band’s Live Fire ensemble at the Alpena Harbor, May 20, 2025, in Alpena, Michigan. The band was playing to support the opening ceremony of Uncrewed Triple Challenge, which brought teams from seven states and three nations to compete in the autonomous challenge, sponsored by the Michigan National Guard, Michigan Economic......
