"The situation in Ukraine has made this more evident that we need to do the information sharing and we need to… mobilize our enterprise services,” Caroline Bean, acting director for DISA's joint enterprise services directorate, told the AFCEA TechNet Cyber 2022 conference.
"The services today are working more what I call 'service all domain command and control' and don't blame me for the acronym, it sounds like SADC2," said Scott Stapp, CTO of Northrop Grumman Corp.
The Army, in particular, is looking for a "magic bullet" one antenna that can receive SATCOM signals from constellations in LEO, MEO and GEO. But it may be disappointed due to the laws of physics, says Rick Lober, VP of defense and intelligence systems at Hughes.
It took US and coalition forces a decade to network themselves and share data. We can't afford to take 10 years to figure out how to do that when faced with near-peer competitors.
The DoD has partnered with the aerospace and defense industry to help solve one of the most complex challenges for the warfighter – enabling Joint All Domain Operations (JADO) and implementing Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2).