Italian Navy – Italy will sent a naval task force, including the aircraft carrier Guiseppe Garibaldi, to the Arabian Sea.

• CNN: Italy pledges troops to U.S.

US Navy – The US Navy is running out of precision guided munitions, and there is a request to send a fourth aircraft carrier to the theater of operations.

• Washington Times: Air Force slow to transfer special bomb kits to Navy

US Coast Guard – Why the Deepwater program is more important than ever.

• US Naval Institute Proceedings: National Security Depends on Deepwater