"I'm convinced we're going to be able to do some great things," Craig Martel told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview. "But they're going to be hard things. It's going to be a challenge."
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center needs three things: new acquisition authorities, more staff, and the cloud. With JEDI delayed ‘potentially many more months,’ director Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan said, he’s turning to an Air Force alternative.
Hybrid communications requirements will shape the Army’s data infrastructure of the future.
The Army’s eager to link its missile defense C2 network to the Air Force, Navy, and Marines – as long as that doesn’t slow the millisecond timing required to hit high-speed targets.
"We'll take anybody's sensors," MDA's John Bier said, "as long as it contributes to the missile warning, missile defense and space domain environment."
The mobile TITAN satellite ground station is a critical node in Army plans for all-domain operations.
The Air Force's global air mobility operations -- in support of the other services to deliver spare parts, as well as helping the Department of Health and Human Services cope with the Coronavirus pandemic by delivering test kits -- continue. says Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
20th century warfare was like football, with lines, phases, and pauses, the head of Army Futures Command told us. 21st century conflict is like hockey: unrelenting, brutal, and chaotic. So how do you coordinate your players well enough to win?
"This is foundational to who we are," Goldfein says of the new all-domain operations warfighting concept.
BAE will deliver the first 18 ERCA vehicles by 2023 – but the Army is already working on further upgrades.
The Army isn’t just replacing old helicopters. It’s building a networked "ecosystem" of mutually supporting manned and unmanned weapons that can drive a flying wedge into Russian and Chinese air defenses.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
"The JROC tended to be a receiver of requirements from services, not a generator of requirements for the services to meet," Gen. Hyten said. "That's not what was intended by Congress."
The Pentagon’s digital elite wants to rapidly develop new techniques and technologies to detect, hack, and jam enemy drones – with wide potential applications for Joint All-Domain Command & Control.
All-Domain Operations is"the biggest key to the future of the entire budget," the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said, "because if we figure that out, we’ll have a significant advantage over everybody in the world for a long time."
"Winning the future fight will require us to dominate space," said Maj. Gen. John Pletcher, Air Force deputy assistant secretary for budget.