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C2NG is the Army’s joint effort with industry to build a “data-centric” command and control system facilitated through network transport.
By Carley Welch![Drone sales, missile collaboration and new C2: Japan, US tighten defense ties](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2024/04/kishida-biden-rose-garden-scaled-e1712781449122-225x150.jpg)
The US and Japan are “increasing the interoperability and planning of our militaries so they can work together in a seamless and effective way,” US President Joe Biden said today.
By Aaron Mehta![A better C-UAS option? Capture enemy drones in a net](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/10/Drone-image-225x150.png)
DroneHunter is a no-to-low collateral damage, counter-UAS system that shoots different types of nets at drone threats, and can bring them down intact in order to exploit them.
By Breaking Defense![Bringing powerful battlespace capabilities to bear through the unified C2 of IBCS](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/11/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-225x150.jpg)
The Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) allows commanders to jointly plan, coordinate and synchronize operations across air, land, sea and space assets.
By Breaking Defense![Congress is right: Accelerate the E-7 Wedgetail buy](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/05/220531_dvids_wedgetail_6093698-scaled-e1654013097568-225x150.jpg)
The Air Force can’t wait when it comes to modernizing command and control, writes the Mitchell Institute’s Douglas Birkey.
By Doug Birkey![How Will SATCOM Evolve From GWOT To Great Power?](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2021/11/Less-than-15-months-after-contract-award-Millennium-Space-Systems-has-designed-manufactured-assembled-and-integrated-the-U.S.-Space-Force-TETRA-1-small-satellite.-Photo-courtesy-of-Mi-225x150.jpg)
DoD Satcom Chief Mike Dean discusses how new, disruptive capabilities for SATCOM in LEO, MEO, and GEO are creating novel mission sets for all-domain operations and new ways of paying for it. He also provides a status report on developing enterprise SATCOM command and control.
By Barry Rosenberg![Air Force Needs ‘Zealots For The Electromagnetic Spectrum’: General](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2015/09/RC-135-Rivet-Joint-crew-e1632259282517-225x150.jpg)
“[The electromagnetic spectrum is] like the oxygen that surrounds us right now. You don’t have a choice. You are in it,” the Air Force’s director of EMS superiority said.
By Brad D. Williams![DoD Spending On JADC2 Jumps, With Increased Focus On Interoperability: Report](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/JADC2-Image-225x150.jpg)
Govini’s Billy Fabian said that for some JADC2 problems, the DoD has a “closing window… before the next generation of capabilities are too far along in development. Otherwise, it risks making its interoperability challenges even worse.”
By Brad D. Williams![A Vision for Better, Faster C2 Decision-Making Across All Domains](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/c2_army-scaled-e1638999726843-225x150.jpg)
For the future fighting concept, “we must shift from domain-centric to mission-centric effects, planning and execution. And that has to start with rethinking our C2 from the ground up,” writes Scott Lee of MITRE.
By Scott Lee![How To Make The Third Offset Real: The Combined JADC2](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2021/01/JADC2-Lockheed-Martin-image-e1666098819485-225x150.jpg)
There are places where jointness, that still sometimes elusive character, is on full display in the US military and one of those is where close air support meets the Army. The Army’s Joint Support Team trains 4,200 Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and Special Operations Command students in joint air-ground operations education, training and command-and-control systems integration. Few…
By Matthew Arrol![Navy’s New Unmanned Fleet Likely To Hunt Chinese & Russian Subs](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2019/08/ANTX-225x150.jpg)
Tracking and harassing submarines will likely be a key job for the new generation of networked, unmanned ships.
By Paul McLeary
In this op-ed, Timothy Walton and Mark Gunzinger discuss solutions to extend the reach of the US Air Force for a China scenario.
By Timothy A. Walton and Mark Gunzinger