{"id":11731,"date":"2018-07-16T20:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/07\/16\/what-does-dod-need-as-it-transitions-to-multidomain-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:40:51","slug":"what-does-dod-need-as-it-transitions-to-multidomain-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2018\/07\/16\/what-does-dod-need-as-it-transitions-to-multidomain-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"What does DoD need as it transitions to multidomain operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

U.S. military services \u2014 in one form or another \u2015 are beginning to transition to multidomain operations, which requires the seamless integration across land, air, sea, space and cyber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the effort is largely conceptual, eventually systems and solutions will have to be procured with this new approach. Yet even at this early state, Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR & UAS, Rotary and Mission Systems at Lockheed Martin, explained recently that the Department of Defense is going to need capabilities that link systems and information together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this may sound easy, Smith said differences in planning cycles, technologies and classifications is challenging. To help answer these questions, Lockheed Martin is hosting the fourth in an evolving series of tabletop exercises in August focused on multidomain operations to help the Air Force think through some of these challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow do you take all the platforms that are out there and link them together and then be able to create decisions that happen a lot faster or get to decisions that you couldn\u2019t have gotten to if you were looking at each of the domains independently,\u201d Smith told reporters during a July 12 media roundtable. \u201cThen, how do you do planning, execution and operations across multiple domains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, it is still unclear where humans are in the decision-making loop, on the loop, the extent to which allow just machine to machine communications, learning and decision making without humans interacting with that at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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