“The purpose behind this is really to lay in the digital infrastructure to improve decision making and accelerate kill chains, kill webs…against a near peer threat,”said Vinnie DiFronzo, SAIC’s senior vice president of operations. “So it really comes down to decision superiority as an initial objective.”
By Jaspreet GillEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey will lead a new integration program office for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management, and will also oversee the Advanced Battle Management System program.
By Valerie Insinna
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For contemporary battle planners, the KC-46A will play a revolutionary role in connecting all-domain forces for the information advantage that it takes to succeed in 21st century air warfare.
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“But I think it’s going to be the led by the new Chief [Digital] and AI Officer, Craig Martell, who comes to us from industry and has a very good technical background,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. “Hopefully he’ll be able to help pull it together. But there’s a definite need to do that.”
By Jaspreet Gill
A joint JADC2-focused office, like the Joint Counter-small UAS office, could help ensure requirements are stacked and prioritized for the military services, Doug Bush, the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said.
By Jaspreet Gill
“We have seen a massive flow of commercial SATCOM capabilities come into theater and in many ways that has enabled us to kind of spread out our MILSATCOM capabilities and take advantage of those commercial SATCOM capabilities,” Brig. Gen. Chad Raduege said. “That has driven its own unique lesson learned in that we often don’t have quite the insight on the commercial side that we have on the military side.”
By Jaspreet Gill
“[Air Force] organizations get to manage individual programs, but we don’t have someone who is in charge of the overall design of these things that have to tie together and perform functions as a whole,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. “I think we need to create something that has more of that kind of responsibility.”
By Valerie Insinna
How to ensure readiness of next-generation defense technology: Solving the issue of massive heat.
High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
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It took US and coalition forces a decade to network themselves and share data. We can’t afford to take 10 years to figure out how to do that when faced with near-peer competitors.
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Its unclear how much the Pentagon is spending on JADC2 and it needs to provide examples of progress next year.
By Andrew Eversden
The only year end list about warplanes that also includes Taylor Swift song recommendations. You’re welcome.
By Valerie Insinna
“Now we’re somewhere stuck in the thinking that mass needs to be physical,” Gen. CQ Brown told officials at the Dubai International Air Chiefs Conference on Nov. 13. “What if we did not have to produce sorties to achieve the same effect?”
By Valerie Insinna
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Data protection solutions are key to the JADC2 goal of an interconnected tactical network that enables the sharing of sensor data among all military branches in every domain.
By Breaking Defense
The similarities of the failed DoD push in the early 2000s to implement “network-centric warfare” to the evolution of today’s JADC2 effort are striking and ominous, the CSIS study shows.
By Theresa Hitchens
The OSCAR effort is designed do develop AI/ML software that can detect spectrum interference and re-route users to open comms channels in near real time.
By Theresa Hitchens
