Raytheon in September was named to the U.S. Air Force’s ABMS Digital Infrastructure Consortium alongside four other defense industry heavyweights.
Craig Martell said his team took the reins of the Global Information Dominance Experiments to “understand what’s the right way to get after JADC2.”
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday in October said the service was sharing insights from Project Overmatch with friendly forces abroad.
To stay ahead of China and Russia, the U.S. military is attempting to dissolve the walls between the services, their databases and their weapons.
The Air Force is specifically interested in commercial gear that is hardened against jamming and can boost data transfer rates and reduce latency.
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To stay ahead of China and Russia, the U.S. military is attempting to dissolve the walls between the services, their databases and their weapons.
The Air Force is specifically interested in commercial gear that is hardened against jamming and can boost data transfer rates and reduce latency.
The Chinese military, the People’s Liberation Army, “refers to systems destruction warfare as the next way of war,” a U.S. defense official said.
Brendan O’Connell, an L3Harris Technologies executive, told C4ISRNET the Link 16 portfolio is “a very natural fit” for the company.
The fielding of Project Overmatch will arguably be the Navy’s most important work in 2023.
The capability set initiative launched in fiscal 2021, with upgrades of off-the-shelf and specialized tech expected in 2023, 2025, 2027 and beyond.
The U.S. Army's Project Convergence this year featured U.K. and Australian forces, a first for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control experiment.
The demonstration included two locations as well as a range of hardware, waveforms and data formats.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Jeffery Valenzia dismissed the idea that the services aren’t closely collaborating on JADC2, calling it a "convenient argument."
The nearly $2 billion deal between L3Harris Technologies and Viasat was announced in early October. It is expected to close in the first half of 2023.
Some 300 technologies are being put to the test, including long-range fires, unmanned aerial systems, autonomous fighting vehicles and sensors.
“We have to be inclusive,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said, “or we’re not going to be able to fight together.”
Link 16 is a secure, jam-resistant and high-speed line of communication used across domains and by international players including NATO.
The guidance is an outgrowth of work conducted by a cross-functional team formed by the Air Force and Space Force.
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