Todd Master, Umbra's chief operating officer and a former DARPA official, told Breaking Defense on May 22 that DRIFT "is a legitimately great example of how government can actually advance capability using commercial investments instead of just saying 'leverage commercial' over and over."
"ASTARTE helps solve the problem how to decide where physically to move [air assets] to conduct operations ... even when it is an incredibly complex battlespace," says Tim Grayson, head of DARPA's Strategic Technologies Office.
Lockheed Martin’s ACES platform delivers a shared virtual battlespace that strengthens readiness, interoperability, and faster decision-making through advanced, integrated modeling and simulation capabilities designed for evolving global threats.
To compete with China, DoD needs to focus on spoiling Chinese military and paramilitary success at lower levels on the escalation ladder. This is more closely aligned with maneuver warfare concepts like DARPA’s Mosaic Warfare.
Preparing for the Great Power competition gives the Defense Department an opportunity to remake the way it develops, deploys, and sustains technologies and capabilities, while creating new collaborative opportunities with joint forces and partner militaries.
"We have got to come up with a compromise with the people's representatives when it comes to defining requirements in the future," he said.
Military hierarchies are, by necessity, rigid structures. DARPA’s ‘Mosaic Warfare’ project aims for something much more fluid and adaptable, with AI doing the logistical grunt work so human commanders can get creative.
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