Distributed Maritime Operations: A Resilient Force Structure Enabled By JADC2
The Marine Corps’ Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) and the Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 program enable DMO.
The new report states the actual cost of the Navy's projected fleet could be 43% higher than historical congressional appropriations.
Rep. Elaine Luria and analysts say the US Navy must a play the long game when it comes to confronting China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Analysts from Govini say the Navy's current investments leaves open the question whether the service can fulfill its vision for Distributed Maritime Operations in the next decade.
A new DARPA solicitation is seeking information about a vehicle class capable of filling the sealift and airlift gaps within the Pentagon's requirements.
The competition will bring in multiple companies to compete for work to maintain the Navy's afloat network for the next 10 years.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, like others in the defense base, is making a play for the unmanned systems market. Its moves these past two years have been aggressive.
Shipbuilding executives say they can take the strain of maintenance for a fleet of unmanned vessels, but industry and the Navy have historically struggled with the warships they are currently managing.
“We were able to … create new software and put new communication waveforms through the system and demonstrate a class a wave forms it could be critical to the Navy as they look at Project Overmatch," said Mike Meaney, a Northrop Grumman official.