{"id":35918,"date":"2023-01-26T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/01\/26\/overmatch-secrecy-needed-as-china-russia-surveil-us-navy-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:16:56","slug":"overmatch-secrecy-needed-as-china-russia-surveil-us-navy-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2023\/01\/26\/overmatch-secrecy-needed-as-china-russia-surveil-us-navy-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Overmatch secrecy needed as China, Russia surveil US Navy, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The thick fog of secrecy encircling the U.S. Navy\u2019s Project Overmatch is still needed to keep rival nations including China and Russia off-balance, unable to discern from afar how the service is readying for future large-scale conflicts, according to a pair of experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at a Defense News event Jan. 26, Bryan Clark, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute<\/a>, and Bill Drexel, an associate fellow of technology and national security at the Center for a New American Security, said the clandestine approach that has shrouded the project since its inception in late 2020 is purposeful, however frustrating it may be to outside observers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA large part of it is this idea that decision advantage does depend on what you think you\u2019re going to be combining together, how you manage the communication network,\u201d Clark said. \u201cAnd getting too much into the details of that would provide information that China could use to try to take that network apart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Overmatch is the Navy\u2019s contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control<\/a>, or JADC2, the Pentagon\u2019s multibillion-dollar push to connect disparate databases and forces across land, air, sea, space and cyber. By doing so, defense officials say, the U.S. will be able to better address foreign aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China is attempting to counteract JADC2 with what has been dubbed Multi-Domain Precision Warfare, or MDPW, an effort to interlink command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and more to quickly coordinate firepower and exploit weakness.<\/p>\n\n\n\t