The Army’s eager to link its missile defense C2 network to the Air Force, Navy, and Marines – as long as that doesn’t slow the millisecond timing required to hit high-speed targets.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“We’ll take anybody’s sensors,” MDA’s John Bier said, “as long as it contributes to the missile warning, missile defense and space domain environment.”
By Theresa Hitchens“The JROC tended to be a receiver of requirements from services, not a generator of requirements for the services to meet,” Gen. Hyten said. “That’s not what was intended by Congress.”
By Colin ClarkThe Army’s building a detailed VR map of the planet and the service’s CIO sees JEDI as the logical place to host such a massive database.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Air Force is pushing ABMS as the backbone for future Joint All Domain Command & Control. Can the network scale up from hundreds of aircraft to thousands of ground troops?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Gen. James McConville wants to connect Army networks with the Air Force and replace some soldiers — not all — with automation.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Dozens of generals — and one admiral — will convene at Nellis Air Force Base next week.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Breaking D has been at the forefront in reporting the Pentagon’s shift toward a new way of war, Multi-Domain Operations, since Day 1.
By Theresa HitchensRussian and Chinese jammers could cripple US radio, radar, and GPS. The Pentagon’s still wrestling with who should fix that, let alone how.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The armed services agree they need to work together better — they just don’t agree on how. Now the Joint Staff is taking a hand.
By Theresa HitchensThe military has all the data it needs to train machine learning algorithms for war – somewhere. Now the Joint AI Center has to find it all and clean it up. The goal: AI Ready data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System is growing from an alternative to JSTARS to a multi-domain mega-network to connect all four services in future wars. Is this a revolution or overreach?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The threat of long-range missile launchers in the Russian enclave is driving the Air Force to develop new tactics for multi-domain attack and dispersed defense.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.In a massive simulated conflict, the human players adapted rapidly to futuristic technologies and tactics. But their command-and-control software couldn’t keep up.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.