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Theresa Hitchens on March 15, 2021 at 3:30 PM
Adm. Philip Davidson, INDOPACOM commander, greats former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on a visit to Hawaii.
WASHINGTON: Indo-Pacific Command has drafted a new warfighting concept for the Asian theater, designed to parallel the global Joint Warfighting Concept spearheaded by the Joint Staff, says George Ka’iliwai, INDOPACOM director for requirements.
The new INDOPACOM Warfighting Concept (IPWC) is being shepherded by the command’s J5 planning directorate, Ka’iliwai, who heads the J8 section (requirements), told reporters at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) POST conference on Friday.
“As far as progress, the J5 has completed the concepts behind the IPWC. The J5 has also done what we call a ‘roadshow,’ and as socialized and vetted the IPWC with our component commanders,” he said. “And we still have a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense.”
Thomas W. Spoehr conducts and supervises research on national defense matters. Microsoft logo seen at their building in Redmond. The Pentagon announced on Oct. 25, 2019, that it had awarded the JEDI contract to Microsoft. Amazon then filed a protest. Toby Scott / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
In 2017, the Pentagon was already far behind the commercial sector in adopting cloud computing though not for lack of trying.
Something is deeply wrong with a system that takes three and a half years to craft, award, and initiate work on a services contract.
Every second that ticks off the clock represents time that our military lacks the capability needed to fight successfully on the future s battlefield.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 12, 2021 at 12:52 PM
Launch of Army-Navy Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) in Hawaii on March 19, 2020.
Gen. James McConville
By building new Multi-Domain Task Force units armed with long-range missiles, “what we want to do as a service is provide the combatant commander…multiple options,” the Army Chief of Staff, Gen. James McConville, told the Defense Writers Group on Thursday.
“A wider base of long-range precision fires… enabled by all our terrestrial forces not just sea and air but by land forces as well is critically important to stabilizing what is becoming a more unstable environment in the western Pacific,” Davidson told Sen. Tom Cotton. “Long-range precision fires delivered by the ground force, I think, are critically important.”
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Theresa Hitchens on March 05, 2021 at 2:07 PM
NORAD space operations center under Cheyenne Mountain
WASHINGTON: Northern Command is prototyping and testing a set of AI tools to support Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) implementation, NORTHCOM officials tell Breaking Defense. Most importantly, they said, the new artificial intelligence will instantly pull together all sorts of data to give commanders a clear picture of the battlefield, enabling good, fast decisions.
The command is leading a virtual exercise, called the Global Information Dominance Exercise (GIDE) 2, March 18-23 to test three “decision aids” that use artificial intelligence/machine learning software to speed commanders’ ability to act, Col. Matt “Nomad” Strohmeyer, NORAD/USNORTHCOM J8 JADC2 Development Lead, explained in an exclusive interview. The AI algorithms will enable all-domain situational awareness, “information dominance,” and real-time “cross-Combatant Command collab