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INDO-PACOM Used Ground-based Aegis Combat System Prototype to Target Missile Threats, Surface Targets June 29, 2021 7:23 PM Overview of Valiant Shield 2020 experiment that paired a ground-based Aegis combat system with Army units. Lockheed Martin Image Last year, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command quietly packed the combat system from a guided-missile destroyer into about the size of a footlocker, took it ashore and hooked it up to an Army artillery unit, an Air Force command node and an F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter. Last September, INDO-PACOM used the Virtualized Aegis Weapon System (VAWS) i...

In this Q&A with Stephanie C. Hill, Lockheed Martin’s executive vice president for Rotary and Mission Systems, we discuss how AI/ML, open systems, and edge computing enable JADO. Breaking Defense: How can the aerospace and defense industry help solve the services’ Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO) and joint command and control challenges? Hill: Gen. John Murray, commanding general for Army Futures Command recently said, “Start with a problem, don’t start with a solution and allow people to be innovative.” I agree wholeheartedly and know our industry can help the military services ...

By   Theresa Hitchens on April 28, 2021 at 4:27 PM Boeing’s F-15EX made its first flight on Feb. 11, 2021. WASHINGTON: The Air Force’s newest fighter, Boeing’s F-15EX, will participate in the bi-annual Northern Edge exercise in the far North — which will have a heavy focus on Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2), says Lt. Gen. David Krumm, head of the service’s Alaska Command. “We have about 4,000 participants this year: 50 units, over 200 aircraft from all of the joint services,” Krumm said. “All over Alaska, we’re going to be fighting from sub-surface up to spac...

By   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 Nati...

To spread out against China's missiles, the US Air Force is sending fighters to remote Pacific airfields insider@insider.com (Christopher Woody) © US Air Force/Capt. Andrew G. Hoskinson A C-130 lands at Northwest Field, next to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, February 17, 2010. US Air Force/Capt. Andrew G. Hoskinson Faced with a Chinese military that can reach farther, the US Air Force is looking for ways to spread its forces throughout the region. The service is practicing a concept known as Agile Combat Employment in order to do that, and it has a challenging test of its...