Information gathered up to and through Tracking Layer Tranche 0 will help inform decisions about future tranches, including how many and which types of sensors should be flown to provide the warfighter a complete advanced missile threat solution, SDA spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea says.
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Theresa Hitchens on January 29, 2021 at 1:01 PM
By this time we were supposed to already have done three major war games and a Globally Integrated Exercise. And we ve only done one of them, and that one was less than satisfactory because of all the restrictions we had to put in place for COVID, Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten.
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Theresa Hitchens on January 22, 2021 at 3:26 PM
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Bryan Clark and Dan Patt on January 14, 2021 at 11:35 AM
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Although it is one of the US military’s highest priorities, service and industry leaders remain confused about Joint All-Domain Command and Control, variously describing it as a communication architecture, a data-sharing approach, an operational concept, or a decision-making tool. Last week the Joint Staff J-6, Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, provided much-needed clarity by characterizing JADC2 as a new decision-making approach to support the emerging Joint Warfighting Concept.
Reframing JADC2 as a decision-making approach is a welcome development. Most discussions of JADC2 reference the flawed goal of connecting every sensor with every shooter across a theater, which risks a massive misallocation of money and effort. The failure of Network-Centric Warfare during the 2000s should have dissuaded US military leaders from once again pursuing theater-wide situational awareness and control. Not onl
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Theresa Hitchens on January 12, 2021 at 1:37 PM
The Joint Staff’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control Campaign Plan Experiment 2 allowed Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines to share information and display it as a common operational picture.
WASHINGTON: The Joint Staff has called an all-hands-on-deck conference for the end of the month to hash out common data standards for future Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) operations, says Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, head of the J6.
“We’re going to tackle that at the end of January in a conference [where] we’re bringing together all of the folks who have a vested interest and we are going to attempt to settle this, or at least bring in some courses of action that we can use … in the department to have our senior leaders make decisions,” Crall, who in his role is leading the Joint Staff effort to develop a JADC2 strategy, said in an exclusive interview.