Gen. Dan Caine called for greater collaboration between the Pentagon and industry — building on the Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit — to speed up new technology, especially for globally integrated command and control.
"COCOMs reported after these tests that J-REN and SlimGIMS not only met the capability gap, but also reduced the time to create a collection request from an hour to 5 minutes," an NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
Chip Walter argues in this op-ed that more funding should be given directly to the combatant commands via the Defense Innovation Unit Fielding line.
The Goldwater-Nichols Act has resulted in "a pervasive pattern within the military of neglect of long-term defense procurement strategies and requirements," the Mitchell Institute argues in a new policy paper.
The language in the new version of DoDD 3100.10 is notable for the specific reference to SPACECOM's responsibility for "offensive" as well as "defensive" operations worldwide — the word offensive is not included in the 2022 version.
Col. Pete Atkinson and Maj. Gen. Jake Kwon, two key officers who handle space issues for the Army, offer a formal rebuttal of criticisms that the Army should hand over its entire space architecture to the Space Force.
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
Elaine McCusker of AEI in this op-ed discusses how the Combatant Commands are using Advana to their advantage.
"We have to have models that allow us to meet 24/7, mission requirements while simultaneously surging to the needs and demands of combatant commanders," Lt. Gen. David Miller said.
The Chief Digital & AI Office wants to bring in a wide range of software developers to rapidly create new applications for Combatant Commands worldwide, with the new apps plugging into Palantir’s open-architecture Maven Smart System.
Lt. Gen. David Miller, head of Space Operations Command, said the ongoing tussle with the Intelligence Community is like when dogs first meet in a dog park. "The dogs like spend five minutes sniffing each other's butts. That's the phase I think we're in. We just need to get off that," he said.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
More than a dozen sources tell Breaking Defense that tensions between the NGA and Space Force are rising on commercial ISR, with White House officials watching closely.
"We are clearly moving away from airborne ISR assets and moving into space. It's the absolute right thing to do from a resiliency and sustainability perspective," Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli said.
The combat squadron arrangement aligns the Space Force with how the Air Force, Army and Navy present and deploy forces to combatant commands, such as Indo-Pacific and European Command, said Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess, head of Space Forces-Space.
The new version of Joint Publication 3-14 explains that "offensive and defensive space operations" are supported primarily by "direct capabilities" — that is, "fires that impact an adversary."