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Raytheon injecting Collins Aerospace unit with $2.7 billion JADC2 jolt
Raytheon in September was named to the U.S. Air Force’s ABMS Digital Infrastructure Consortium alongside four other defense industry heavyweights.
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Pentagon’s AI office rebooting global experiments for JADC2
Craig Martell said his team took the reins of the Global Information Dominance Experiments to “understand what’s the right way to get after JADC2.”
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Navy’s Project Overmatch boss pushing hard for international synergy
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday in October said the service was sharing insights from Project Overmatch with friendly forces abroad.
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Northrop links drones, ships in demonstration of connected Navy fleet
To stay ahead of China and Russia, the U.S. military is attempting to dissolve the walls between the services, their databases and their weapons.
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US Air Force wants industry input for ‘innovative’ ABMS technologies
The Air Force is specifically interested in commercial gear that is hardened against jamming and can boost data transfer rates and reduce latency.
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China developing own version of JADC2 to counter US
The Chinese military, the People’s Liberation Army, “refers to systems destruction warfare as the next way of war,” a U.S. defense official said.
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L3Harris completes $2 billion purchase of Viasat Link 16 assets
Brendan O’Connell, an L3Harris Technologies executive, told C4ISRNET the Link 16 portfolio is “a very natural fit” for the company.
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Project Overmatch: US Navy preps to deploy secretive multidomain tech
The fielding of Project Overmatch will arguably be the Navy’s most important work in 2023.
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US Army to lay out communications gear needs for industry at TEM9
The capability set initiative launched in fiscal 2021, with upgrades of off-the-shelf and specialized tech expected in 2023, 2025, 2027 and beyond.
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US, UK partner on command and control as Project Convergence wraps
The U.S. Army’s Project Convergence this year featured U.K. and Australian forces, a first for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control experiment.
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How the Pentagon knows when JADC2 innovations are working
Air Force Brig. Gen. Jeffery Valenzia dismissed the idea that the services aren’t closely collaborating on JADC2, calling it a “convenient argument.”
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L3Harris CEO says Viasat Link 16 assets are JADC2 ‘accelerant’
The nearly $2 billion deal between L3Harris Technologies and Viasat was announced in early October. It is expected to close in the first half of 2023.
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Project Convergence shows JADC2 alignment, leaders from 3 services say
Some 300 technologies are being put to the test, including long-range fires, unmanned aerial systems, autonomous fighting vehicles and sensors.
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US Navy sharing Project Overmatch insights with international allies
“We have to be inclusive,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said, “or we’re not going to be able to fight together.”
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L3Harris to buy Viasat’s Link 16 portfolio, expand JADC2 offerings
Link 16 is a secure, jam-resistant and high-speed line of communication used across domains and by international players including NATO.
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US Air Force to provide industry with test model for JADC2 development
The guidance is an outgrowth of work conducted by a cross-functional team formed by the Air Force and Space Force.
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US Army customizing communication gear for regional challenges
“It is a big army,” said Nicholaus Saacks with PEO C3T. “We have to be prepared to fight in a lot of different places.”
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US Army examining network portfolio in bid for digital dominance
The evaluation covers topics critical to military superiority including unified network operation, cybersecurity, cloud migration, data analytics and more.
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First Arctic unit now training with modernized US Army networking gear
The communication upgrades arrive amid a push by the U.S. Army to better outfit and prepare its northern forces.
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Pentagon’s command and control concept needs work, Army official says
“Project Convergence 22 is the perfect, practical example of where we are coordinating laterally with our sister services,” said Lt. Gen. John Morrison.
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Ukraine ‘testing ground’ shaping US network, electronic warfare effort
Oleksii Reznikov described Ukraine as “a testing ground,” where “many weapons are now getting tested in the field, in the real conditions of battle.”
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Why US Army network leaders are so interested in identity management
The Pentagon’s 2020 ICAM strategy acknowledged failures to “maximize the strategic, operational, and tactical benefits of information sharing.”
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They’re ‘all different’: Air Force adviser says services diverge on JADC2
“I’ve looked at all of the documentation associated with all three,” she said, referencing Project Convergence, Project Overmatch and the Advanced Battle Management System.
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US Army tests aerial tier communications in Jersey Devil’s stomping ground
“We really saw how the aerial tier could extend our network, but we wanted to do some further evaluations,” said Army Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, the director of the Network Cross-Functional Team.
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Proposed JADC2 cross-service exercise belongs in Pacific, says Hudson’s Clark
Senators this year recommended an additional $245 million for Joint All-Domain Command and Control as well as the creation of a joint force headquarters at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.