Berger: ‘Time to look’ at changing combatant command structure

Berger: ‘Time to look’ at changing combatant command structure
Berger: ‘Time to look’ at changing combatant command structure

“There comes a point where there’s so many combatant commanders and so many service chiefs that I wonder at what point does the secretary of defense have a span of control where… getting to a decision and getting the right perspectives on the table becomes really difficult,” the Marine Corps leader said.

JAIC developing first-of-its-kind ‘integration layer’ for AI algorithms

JAIC developing first-of-its-kind ‘integration layer’ for AI algorithms
JAIC developing first-of-its-kind ‘integration layer’ for AI algorithms

“So if you don’t have an integration layer like that, then you have to go find all of the data sources yourself… This is something we don’t have yet in the department,” Lt. Gen. Michael Groen told Breaking Defense.

Hicks Will Send AI/Data Experts To Combatant Commanders

Hicks Will Send AI/Data Experts To Combatant Commanders
Hicks Will Send AI/Data Experts To Combatant Commanders

Two types of expert teams will help the 11 Combatant Commands make better use of data for decision-making, the deputy Defense Secretary said.

EXCLUSIVE: STRATCOM Creates Global Ops Center For All Domain

EXCLUSIVE: STRATCOM Creates Global Ops Center For All Domain
EXCLUSIVE: STRATCOM Creates Global Ops Center For All Domain

“I think global integrated operations is really the next big ‘advantage space’ for the Department of Defense,” says Maj. Gen. John Nichols.

Combatant Commanders Want Reaper To Stay

Combatant Commanders Want Reaper To Stay
Combatant Commanders Want Reaper To Stay

The Air Force wants to cut its workhorse drone, the MQ-9 Reaper. The combatant commanders that use the MQ-9 don’t want to see that happen.

All-Domain Ops Require Rethinking Combatant Commands: Goldfein

All-Domain Ops Require Rethinking Combatant Commands: Goldfein
All-Domain Ops Require Rethinking Combatant Commands: Goldfein

“This is foundational to who we are,” Goldfein says of the new all-domain operations warfighting concept.

Who’ll Fix EW? Task Force Gropes For Answers

Who’ll Fix EW? Task Force Gropes For Answers
Who’ll Fix EW? Task Force Gropes For Answers

Russian and Chinese jammers could cripple US radio, radar, and GPS. The Pentagon’s still wrestling with who should fix that, let alone how.

How To Wage Global Cyber War: Nakasone, Norton, & Deasy

How To Wage Global Cyber War: Nakasone, Norton, & Deasy
How To Wage Global Cyber War: Nakasone, Norton, & Deasy

The military needs a globe-spanning network to counter threats that no single theater command can cope with. That takes more than just technology.

Cyber Force Fights Training Shortfalls: NSA, IONs, & RIOT

Cyber Force Fights Training Shortfalls: NSA, IONs, & RIOT
Cyber Force Fights Training Shortfalls: NSA, IONs, & RIOT

CAPITOL HILL: The military’s new cyberspace force is working to overcome recruiting and retention shortfalls, training bottlenecks, and its dependence on the National Security Agency, officials told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. These devils in the details are an inevitable part of standing up a new kind of force for a new kind of…

Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS NOW!

Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS NOW!
Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS NOW!

WASHINGTON: Hey! Take off that Fitbit and turn it off. Hand in that Apple Watch. Make sure you’ve turned off the geolocation capabilities of your Garmin. That was the word today from Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan. For years, cell phones have been banned from many offices in the Pentagon, not to mention any Secure…

VCJCS Selva: North Korea Hasn’t Demonstrated Key Tech To Nuke US Yet

VCJCS Selva: North Korea Hasn’t Demonstrated Key Tech To Nuke US Yet
VCJCS Selva: North Korea Hasn’t Demonstrated Key Tech To Nuke US Yet

WASHINGTON: North Korea has cut the warning time America has to a “dozen minutes or so” before an ICBM launch because of the mobile launch trucks it’s using, according to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “We may have gone from tens of minutes to up to an hour (previously) to a dozen minutes…

2018 Forecast: Can the Navy Say No?

2018 Forecast: Can the Navy Say No?
2018 Forecast: Can the Navy Say No?

The Navy and Marine Corps hit the wall in 2017 with an string of deadly accidents. The newly named Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer, seems to be charting a collision course with joint commanders.

SecNav Spencer Seeks Goldwater-Nichols Changes After Deadly Collisions

SecNav Spencer Seeks Goldwater-Nichols Changes After Deadly Collisions
SecNav Spencer Seeks Goldwater-Nichols Changes After Deadly Collisions

PENTAGON: Navy Secretary Richard Spencer wants to change the law that’s governed the armed forces since 1986, the Goldwater-Nichols Act, to restore more autonomy to the services. Only by letting the Navy say “no” to joint combatant commanders’ insatiable demands for deployments can the fleet get adequate training, ship maintenance, and crew rest, argues the…

‘At War Next Week’: Bob Work On Readiness, Modernization, & COCOMs

‘At War Next Week’: Bob Work On Readiness, Modernization, & COCOMs
‘At War Next Week’: Bob Work On Readiness, Modernization, & COCOMs

WASHINGTON: The US can’t afford to modernize its military and increase its size at the same time, said the former deputy secretary of defense , Bob Work. It can’t build up war-ready forces to deter Russia and China while engaging in non-stop operations around the world, the way we have since 1991. If we have…