TAMPA, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 The head of U.S. Army Special Operations Command lifted the curtain on the command’s 2035 strategy and campaign plan that will be unveiled in an unclassified version in July.\u00a0
U.S. Army Special Operations Command\u00a0will still need to deliver an indigenous approach with precision-targeting methodology, understand and build influence, and\u00a0globally\u00a0respond to crises, but it will be meeting these key missions under very different and quickly evolving conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ongoing experiences around the world, Tovo said, expose capability gaps in the force that Army special operations is looking to address to maintain an edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to help understand the operational environment, the command is seeking better ways to aggregate data to “improve the speed and ease with which we synthesize information at the tactical and operational level,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some solutions would likely be geared toward development of machine-learning techniques that would help automatically “triage” the vast quantities of intelligence data collected from intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms or through publicly available open-source information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You\u2019ll never remove the person from the loop, but we\u2019ve got to be able to scope down the problem from what, right now, is way beyond the number of people we can throw it against,” Tovo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adversaries already have advanced cyber and electronic warfare capabilities, and “we will no longer enjoy a battlefield, no matter who we face, where our comms are safe,” he said. “We need to get used to passing traffic in denied environments.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, most of the systems developed over the years of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0from communications technology to unmanned aircraft systems\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are not designed to go up against near-pear adversaries in denied environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
The service and special operations, in part, must figure out how to take current capability and make it more survivable, Tovo noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But perhaps the solution isn\u2019t to try to harden all of the existing capability, but to go about it in other ways, such as “shrinking the visibility on the battlefield,” Tovo said. While U.S. forces are reliant on large UAS now, perhaps a better approach would be to replace those with a “multitude of throw-away swarms of UAVs,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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