"One of the requirements is going to be that all data developed and produced by every weapon system we have has to be made accessible, period," Gen. John Hyten said today.
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Theresa Hitchens on May 11, 2021 at 5:02 PM
WASHINGTON: The Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC), led by Joint Chiefs Vice-Chairman Gen. John Hyten, is asserting new powers to direct how the services fulfill Combatant Commanders’ needs to ensure the future Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC) is not undercut by competing service imperatives and parochial rivalries.
This represents “a little bit of a different take on how the JROC has been run before,” said Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, deputy director of the Joint Staff J6 directorate for Command, Control, Communications, & Computers/Cyber. The idea, he told AFCEA today, is for the JROC to be “more prescriptive, directive to the services.”
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Theresa Hitchens on May 07, 2021 at 12:45 PM
Lockheed Martin’s Project Hydra
WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has demonstrated a capability for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets to share situational awareness data
in flight via a U-2 spy plane kitted out with the company’s ‘translation’ software, says Dan Markham, Skunk Works director of JADO/BMC2. Lockheed also transmitted data from the F-35 to a ground station using a Navy datalink, TTNT, and then on from there to an Army network, IBCS.
“This is really the first time that all three of those live platforms in the air were connected,” he said in an interview yesterday.
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Rebecca Grant on May 04, 2021 at 6:01 AM
SDA National Defense Space Architecture
When Congress began pushing hard for some kind of Space Force the biggest concern lawmakers had was improving space acquisition. After the Space Force was created the Office of Secretary of Defense created a new space acquisition authority outside the control of the new service that was supposed to train and equip space warriors. The Space Development Agency has shown no signs of going away, though criticism of what appears to be its duplicative efforts and uncertain future persist. Instead, it may have come up with answers to some of the most difficult questions raised by the new American way of war, All Domain Operations. In this op-ed, Rebecca Grant tackles these thorny issues. Read on! The Editor.
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Theresa Hitchens on April 08, 2021 at 12:45 PM
The Army delivers a “training canister,” simulating a hypersonic missile round, to its first hypersonic battery.
WASHINGTON: The Army and Air Force have been told to stop talking in public about their feud over long-range strike for All Domain Operations signaling that the decision about who does the mission now is in the hands of higher powers.
It may be resolved by a review by the powerful CAPE in time for the 2023 budget chop, experts say. Indeed, Congress may require such a study by the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation shop and perhaps also an independent study to look at force posture needs in the fiscal 2022 defense policy bill.