At gathering of top generals, Hegseth outlines anti-‘woke’ vision for the ‘Department of War’
The secretary of defense made his pitch for a war-focused military, arguing "mounting urgency" required a cultural change against "ideological garbage."
The secretary of defense made his pitch for a war-focused military, arguing "mounting urgency" required a cultural change against "ideological garbage."
After exercises, soldiers said they want to see better edge computing, mobile pLEO solutions and more.
C2NG is the Army’s joint effort with industry to build a “data-centric” command and control system facilitated through network transport.
Right now, the networks within the service are so antiquated and compartmentalized that servicemembers often lack the ability to plug in and connect to a network when traveling from one base to another.
"The ambition of [Project] Linchpin makes me nervous," said Mark Kitz, program executive officer for IEW&S. "We can't answer all of our AI/ML ops questions with the initial iteration of Linchpin."
Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said he was particularly impressed by the service’s adoption of the C5ISR Modular Suite of Standards program, a platform that will allow soldiers to plug in cards embedded with networking and EW capabilities
“The purchasing model that we currently use, which is buying and maintaining a large quantity of radios, may not be as flexible or frankly as affordable as it needs to be in order for us to solve the long-term challenge of making sure the Army can fight and win the nation's wars,” Gabe Camarillo, Army undersecretary, said.