Dunlap On Zero Trust, Agility & ADO Cybersecurity
In part four of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap discusses one of toughest challenges to All Domain Operations: integrating an effective tactical edge node into the larger network.
Air & Space Forces Add Cyber To All-Domain Ops Data Library
"Data is key to space. It's critical to all-domain operations; it's a centerpiece to it all," says Maj. Gen. Kim Crider.
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A leap in drone range and payloads come from a battery with different chemistry
Lithium-metal batteries are one way to break the weight and endurance limits of today’s unmanned systems.
JADC2 Needs To Change Course: More C2, Less Comms
Unless DoD puts the C2 back into JADC2, the multi-billion dollar effort meant to transform how America fights may well create the kind of brittle, centralized hierarchy the U.S. military is supposed to avoid. The U.S. military is pursuing a new concept for managing operations called Joint All-Domain Command and Control. JADC2 seeks interoperability between […]
How To Build JADC2 To Make It Truly Joint
A rara avis. That is what you are reading. This opinion piece by three active duty Air Force officers deals with perhaps the service’s most important program start since the Cold War, the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), which most industry and military experts believe will be the key to All Domain Operations. The Air […]
Gen. Hyten On The New American Way of War: All-Domain Operations
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."
‘Sizable Dollars’ For ABMS Likely in 2021 Request: Roper
Roper says he hopes Congress "will smile on the Air Force for breaking out of 'Platform Land' and actually putting money towards digital transformation."
Building logistics networks for contested environments
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The Navy Wants An MDO Battle Network, But First It Needs A Plan
The Chinese navy is putting more ships to sea. Both China and Russia continue to churn out new generations of long-range weapons. The US Navy has taken notice and decided it must act.
In First, NATO Ships Share Target Data & Knock Down Ballistic Missiles
As Washington continues to push NATO to invest more in modernization and become more closely integrated, a 13-ship task force showed that change is possible.
OSD & Joint Staff Grapple With Joint All-Domain Command
The armed services agree they need to work together better -- they just don't agree on how. Now the Joint Staff is taking a hand.
EXCLUSIVE Navy, Air Force Chiefs Agree To Work On All Domain C2
Today, "we have Navy-only systems," said Vice Adm. Lewis, "which is really frustrating" -- in fact, it's "asinine."
The Army’s Digital Transformation
AI is reshaping the Army’s approach to cyber, electronic warfare and command and control. At TechNet Augusta 2026, leaders outlined how they’re turning emerging technology into capabilities for the battlefield.
GAO Says Critical Space C2 Effort At Risk
GAO finds that the Space C2 program "is planning to meet previously deferred requirements that proved too complex for prior programs to achieve," and "also plans to address new and emerging threats to space assets, for which requirements are not yet defined."
Air Force Hires Startup To Build Up MDO’s Unified Data Library
"The goal is to eventually integrate all of AFSPC data" into the UDL, says AFSPC, "along with other sources such as commercial space (already there but more coming), multi-domain data from such as air, land, sea, data from other agencies, and even academia."
FORGE, OPIR’s Ground System, Deal Due March 2020
"FORGE itself is essentially a framework to hang applications on to do the OPIR mission," explains Raytheon's Todd Probert.
New Space BMC2 System To Debut at Corona: Raymond
"A lot of the challenges we face in space are big data problems," says Gen. John Raymond, who is dual-hatted as commander of Space Command and Air Force Space Command.