Gen. Jay Raymond, Space Force chief, stressed that the new digital vision applies not just to service acquisition, but to everything the newest military service does, with a bottom-line goal of speeding decision-making.
"As a new service, we have an opportunity here to really establish ourselves in a new way -- leveraging digital technologies, and leveraging digital processes and practices in a new way," says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider, Space Force acting chief technology innovation officer.
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"Data is key to space. It's critical to all-domain operations; it's a centerpiece to it all," says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider.
JADC2 is foundational to future hypersonic weapons, says Gen. Ray: "If you don't have that, you just miss fast."
Now transferred from the Air Force to the nascent Space Force -- whose acquisition responsibilities remain unclear -- SMC says it can play a central role in future all-service Multi-Domain Operations.
Senior Pentagon and service officials observed the last day of the ground-breaking ABMS exercise and the Air Force engaged Northern Command to create and manage the scenario.
Architecture that linked sensors, C2, RF effects, and lasers into a distributed c-UAS kill chain.
'Enterprise Data Strategies' -- that mimic a company's technology roadmap and business strategy and treat data as a separate entity of operations in its own right -- are all the rage in the corporate sector.
Air Force Space Command's 'Unified Data Library' combining DoD and commercial SSA data will be open to allied governments.