U.S. Navy leaders want the information they receive from sensors and traditional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tools to more seamlessly feed into the service\u2019s combat systems as a way to eventually improve how the service searches for targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vice Adm. Brian Brown, the commander of Naval Information Forces, said the Navy as part of a new campaign is taking the first steps toward that goal. Brown spoke on a panel at the West 2019 trade show in San Diego about how the Navy can become more lethal and improve its readiness to fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying to link the combat system side more tightly to the C4I side because it really is a single continuum from battlespace awareness to targeting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview with C4ISRNET after the panel, Brown said he is working with leaders at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command as well as at Naval Sea Systems Command to explore common data standards, interfaces and the framework for cooperation. This would include looking for ways a combat system such as the Ship Self-Defense System, used for anti-air defense, could feed into a network such as the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprises Services, or CANES, which is used for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are several interfaces there where data can flow back and forth,\u201d he said. \u201cThe idea is, simply, as technology goes on, these two environments are getting closer and closer. We want to make it more seamless. You would want to be able to pull sensor-type battlespace awareness data from the traditional combat system side into the more tradition C4I side to be able to do targeting and other things with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Specifically, Brown said he is working with the chief engineers at SPAWAR\u2019s C4I program office and the Naval Sea Systems Command\u2019s program executive officer for integrated warfare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While those systems have similarities, today their data is largely separate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little more siloed,” he said. \u201cWe\u2019re breaking that piece down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The long-term goal of connecting those systems, he added, is to \u201cimprove the ability of the things we do in the high-end fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Navy has increased its focus on information warfare in recent years. In August 2018, the Navy created its information warfare enterprise, to align its efforts throughout the service. Brown, Vice Adm. Matthew Kohler, the director of naval intelligence, and Rear Adm. Christian Becker, the head of SPAWAR, serve as the group\u2019s executive committee. In addition, in 2017, the service created a Naval Information Development Command for advanced training in information warfare tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a keynote address to kickoff the conference, Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, told the audience that the advent of information warfare \u201cchanges everything,\u201d including the character of warfare and the speed of operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to think more creatively in terms of competing effectively,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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