The Defense Department plans to use data to expand the common operational picture, or COP, that informs troops about the state of the battlefield, enemy positions, and other high-value assets. Programs like the Army’s Project Convergence and Project Rainmaker, the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System, and the Navy’s Project Overmatch are intended to expand network functionality and collaboration across the services, inching the Pentagon ever closer to its goal of joint all domain command and control. But what steps are being taken to ensure DoD’s Mission Partner Environment has the same battlefield visibility as our own forces do? From a data perspective, what would it take for allies to integrate their information capabilities with U.S. troops for maximum situational awareness? In this webcast, C4ISRNET explored the data “building blocks” and policies needed to conduct successful joint operations with allied forces across all domains.

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Guest Speakers:

• Brig. Gen. Chad D. Raduege, Director of the Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Cyber Directorate, and CIO, EUCOM, U.S. Air Force
• Mariel Cooley, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

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This event took place on October 13, 2020

What kind of information – and information technology – does the Army need to ensure it can be successful on the battlefield? What kind of technology development and modernization is necessary and how does all of this fit into multidomain operations? During AUSA, we sat down to discuss.

Guest Speakers:

• Dr. Portia Crowe, Chief Data Officer, Network Cross Functional Team, Army Futures Command
• Greg Wenzel, Executive Vice President and Lead, Digital Battlespace Solutions, Booz Allen Hamilton