{"id":37813,"date":"2021-06-23T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/06\/23\/just-like-your-iphone-marines-need-to-connect-battlefield-to-larger-network-for-future-conflicts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:33:19","slug":"just-like-your-iphone-marines-need-to-connect-battlefield-to-larger-network-for-future-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2021\/06\/23\/just-like-your-iphone-marines-need-to-connect-battlefield-to-larger-network-for-future-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just like your iPhone\u2019: Marines need to connect battlefield to larger network for future conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Marines on the future battlefield will need connections with the service\u2019s enterprise network to make fires decisions and bolster command and control, a top Marine Corps general said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the military services move forward on their plans to share data and connect relevant sensors to relevant shooters for the future war-fighting concept known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control, an important factor will be the ability to connect back to the enterprise network that has more data storage and processing power than devices available to users at the tactical edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat\u2019s different for the Marine Corps as we build our networks is we have to be able to have the power of the enterprise at the edge because as you\u2019re inside the weapons engagement zone, we need the compute, the store, the analytics to be just like your iPhone,\u201d said Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock, CIO of the Marines Corps and director of information, command, control, communications and computers. \u201cAs our Marines are maneuvering \u2014 really, really small maneuver elements \u2014 they have the power of the enterprise to be able to enable C2 and fires at the edge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a <a href=\"https:\/\/events.defensenews.com\/pathfinders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defense News Pathfinders<\/a> event on Wednesday, Mahlock said that there is an \u201cinextricable link\u201d between the enterprise network and the tactical edge. To ensure that Marines \u2014 and the joint force \u2014 have a command and control advantage over adversaries, intelligence networks, business networks and war-fighting networks must be fused to make all necessary data available to war fighters who need it across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps is in the midst of a network modernization effort focused on IT consolidation to better integrate systems across the service. Mahlock stressed that the challenge in powering joint war-fighting and connecting enterprise networks to the tactical edge isn\u2019t technological, rather cultural. For example, the Marines had to stop thinking about tactical, intelligence and business networks as separate entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s about ensuring the data can pass seamlessly across all these systems,\u201d Mahlock said, adding that \u201cfolks used to think that there is no interdependency between the enterprise and the tactical edge. That kind of thinking is pass\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mahlock emphasized the inherent joint nature of the Marine force: It is primarily naval but has a ground piece that needs to work with the Army and a Marine Air-Ground Task Force that needs to connect with the Air Force. That level of collaboration between the services is another cultural change underway while the services try to enable JADC2. 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