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About Justified Accord

Justified Accord is U.S. Africa Command’s largest exercise in East Africa. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), this multi-national exercise brings together more than 20 countries from 3 continents to increase partner readiness for peacekeeping missions, crisis response and humanitarian assistance.

Southern European Task Force - Africa leads this joint, all-domain exercise in East Africa to enable future operations, maintain strategic access, and build partner capacity to disrupt malign influence, aggression, and activity.

Justified Accord 25 features the first-ever night iteration of air-to-ground integration (AGI) operations where partner countries control Kenyan air assets to provide air support of multinational land forces.

This years iteration also marks the 10-year anniversary of the State Partnership Program between the Massachusetts National Guard and the Kenya Defence Forces. This milestone highlights a decade of sustained military cooperation, training exchanges and capacity-building efforts between the two forces.

Read the Press Release here.

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Mr. Steven Pizzo - C5ISR Hall of Fame Class of 2023 Inductee

U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command

March 25, 2025 | 5:49

Mr. Steven Pizzo began his career at Fort Monmouth in 1986 and served until his retirement in 2011. Beginning as an Electronics Engineer assigned to the Center for Electronic Warfare/Reconnaissance Surveillance and Target Acquisition (EW/RSTA), one of Mr. Pizzo’s first assignments was to develop an improved signal recognition capability for the Guardrail Common Sensor (GRCS) system. Additionally, he conceived and implemented the Stratomist program, the first tactical, programmable, and distributed radio frequency test transmitter for field testing and training with over 400 units employed around the world. He is recognized within the research and development community as one of the Army’s preeminent systems engineers for Special Electronic Mission Aircraft and highly complex airborne Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) systems. Mr. Pizzo received the Army’s Greatest Invention of the Year Award in 2009, the Association of Old Crows (AOC) Joint Service Award in 1999, the AOC Radio Frequency Award in 2008, the AOC Army Service Award (as a member of the man-portable direction finding system known as Versatile Radio Observation and Direction (VROD) team in 2016, the AOC Electronic Attack Award in 2017 (as a member of the VROD Modular Adaptive Transmit (VMAX) Soldier-worn electronic attack system for dismounted operations team), and the AOC Test and Evaluation Award (as a member of the Stratomist Team) in 2018. He received the Army Product Manager of the Year Award for GRCS in 1998, the Defense Acquisition Executive Achievement Award (also for GRCS) in 2000 and multiple Commanders Awards for Civilian Service.