The Army Wants Smarter Sensors To Ease Soldiers' 'Cognitive Burden'
New intelligence and electronic-warfare tools aim to help commanders get data faster.
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New intelligence and electronic-warfare tools aim to help commanders get data faster.
"Since this is done in a virtualized environment that is hosted up in the cloud through DoD, it is very, very, very secure... We're pretty excited about this and it's taken us a while to get to this point, both from a policy perspective and from a building out of the environment [perspective], but we are right on the cusp of implementation," Lt. Gen. John Morrison said.
"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."
Allies need to receive and contribute information for common defense, but how much they get is a decision that requires engineering.
The G-6 is working closely with Raj Iyer, the Army's chief information officer, on "characterizing" some of the legacy data centers the service wants to eventually shut down that are no longer needed.