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With the prototypes, "we're able to launch from one area and very quickly get to another area that is much further away in distance. So it opens up the aperture from a mission perspective," a program leader said.

"But I think it’s going to be the led by the new Chief [Digital] and AI Officer, Craig Martell, who comes to us from industry and has a very good technical background," Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. "Hopefully he’ll be able to help pull it together. But there's a definite need to do that."

A June exercise provided insight into how robots can speed up the pace of battle, and how the US Army, and its allies, needs to plan to defeat them.

"So JADC2 is large and we hear people wanting to understand what's in JADC2, what's not JADC2," Rear Adm. Susan BryerJoyner said. "If you accept my premise, my hypothesis, that it's about a different way to compete and fight, almost everything is JADC2."

"We have examples in the counter-ISIS fight of combining lethal and non-lethal effects for a much larger holistic effect that I would say had a larger impact than anyone predicted prior to us truly synchronizing our efforts for having an effect on the adversary there," he said.

Richard Dayoub from Thunderbird Management welcomes Brigadier General Eric D. Little and Command Sergeant Major Jose Melendez to talk about “The Dominant Desert” Missile Range...

Big programs cost big money, and the Pentagon is looking to low-cost-tech options for the military in order to stay competitive.

Innovation is an important part of national security, but people are key.

WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. So far, we have covered the Army (IBCS), the Navy (CEC), and the Space Force (SF-ABMS) programs. So now it’s time to explore what the Air Force is doing to join the Kill Web. Their primary effort is called ABMS (Advanced Battle Management System), that seeks to connect all their aircraft, weapons, and sensors together into a tactical mesh network where they can talk to each other in real time. Maybe the best way to present this information is by comparison to wh...

"NetModX is a great testbed for us to kind of understand how our investments are working out as they graduate from a lab setting and make adjustments as needed to be able to get the most value out of those investment areas that we have," Joseph Welch, director of the C5ISR Center, said.