Naval Base Kitsap
U.S. Navy installation in Washington state; homeport for the Pacific Fleet’s ballistic-missile and guided-missile submarine force, and a designated nuclear-weapons storage facility. Strategic significance is comparable to whiteman-afb within the nuclear triad. Selected as the Navy site in the May 2026 jiatf-401 directed-energy-weapons counter-uas pilot (per src-directed-energy-5-bases-pilot-2026-05).