{"id":62962,"date":"2022-12-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/12\/08\/project-overmatch-us-navy-preps-to-deploy-secretive-multidomain-tech\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:45:59","slug":"project-overmatch-us-navy-preps-to-deploy-secretive-multidomain-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/outlook\/2022\/12\/08\/project-overmatch-us-navy-preps-to-deploy-secretive-multidomain-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Overmatch: US Navy preps to deploy secretive multidomain tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Navy is moving quickly to link its fleet through its Project Overmatch initiative, which has been kept almost entirely secret for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shielded from public view, the service has undertaken a flurry of work: simulating current pathways for data, writing software code to close gaps, testing it in a lab and at sea, and providing feedback to coders to improve future iterations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rear Adm. Doug Small, who leads both Naval Information Warfare Systems Command and Project Overmatch, told Defense News this high-priority effort remains on track for a planned deployment of the new capabilities to a carrier strike group in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Overmatch is the Navy\u2019s contribution to the Pentagon\u2019s multibillion-dollar Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort<\/a> \u2014 a push to reliably connect forces across land, air, sea, space and cyberspace as well as enable seamless international collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fielding of Project Overmatch will arguably be the Navy\u2019s most important work in 2023, especially as the service aims to incorporate more unmanned systems that serve as intelligence-collecting nodes, feeding information to sailors on ships and in ashore command centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Navy\u2019s effort on Overmatch is very much focused on the next two or three years,\u201d said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute. \u201cOvermatch has really focused much more directly on the near-term operational problems faced by commanders dealing with China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Small said he\u2019s optimistic about the upcoming demonstration \u2014 the largest of its kind, but not the first time the Navy will use this new technology at sea, noting it continues a critical line of research. With ships inherently disaggregated, he said, the Navy is naturally considering ways to better share information across ships and aircraft so the best-positioned platform can strike a target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Navy in particular had been working various system of systems-type concepts and the technologies that would go into that for mission threads. How do you stitch together various components to create a mission or an outcome, an effect?\u201d he said in a Nov. 10 interview. \u201cOvermatch [is] sort of a natural progression of that sort of work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origins of Overmatch<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Though the Navy was already researching how to connect ships, planes and weapons, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday created Project Overmatch in fall 2020 and tapped Small to lead the effort. Gilday has since said Overmatch is his No. 2 priority, behind delivery of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas past efforts were housed within specific offices, Small said Project Overmatch is meant to encompass the entire Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInside of a platform-centric service,\u201d he said, \u201chow can you become more data- and network-centric?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rear Adm. Doug Small speaks at the 2021 Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium. (Elisha Gamboa\/U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The core team started with just a few people, but has grown to about 50. The team, plus its collaborators across the Navy and industry, are focused on several key points: tools and analytics, networks, data, and infrastructure, which includes computing and platforms as a service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFundamentally, this is all about management of data, exchange of data,\u201d David Deptula, the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and a retired Air Force lieutenant general, said Nov. 14 at a JADC2 industry event<\/a>. \u201cWithout the appropriate infrastructure, you can\u2019t be able to do the data, connectivity or networking. Without the security, all of it falls apart because you\u2019re yielding a huge weakness and vulnerability to our adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But perhaps the most significant, overriding mission of the team is to figure out what barriers the Navy has put in its own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Small said the commercial industry is able to do what the Navy wants to do; car companies like Tesla remotely send software updates to address security gaps or capability improvements without creating safety risks for drivers, and Amazon pushes out hundreds of thousands of software updates each day, which an online shopper might never notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything that we have put in our way that prevents us from doing exactly that is something that we\u2019ve done to ourselves,\u201d Small said. \u201cNow, there are changes that need to happen to systems on ships and shore facilities to enable that, but then, eventually, that\u2019s how you get to fielding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Small said his Project Overmatch team should have a client-like relationship with the fleet, where they understand what sailors need to do their jobs more effectively and, in turn, quickly produce and deliver tools to address those gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBringing an upgrade every several years, or bringing hundreds of thousands of changes per day \u2014 somewhere in the middle, there is that sweet spot where we basically pace our adversaries with delivery of capability. And that\u2019s what it\u2019s really all about,\u201d said Small, noting the difference between the Navy and the tech industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready to strike<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Small said his focus is now on the 2023 carrier strike group demonstration<\/a>. Though he wouldn\u2019t identify specific technologies or software involved, he dubbed the event \u201cthe starting gun\u201d and said additional capabilities will roll out in future iterations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Small said the team will deploy this first increment onto the first carrier strike group in 2023, and then continue until all 11 carrier strike groups have the hardware and software installed. That equates to a large portion of the surface fleet, excluding amphibious ships and some forward-deployed vessels with a different operational model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe alternative path is, well, let\u2019s design the whole thing out for a few years and then field that everywhere, right? And you\u2019ve probably seen the [timeline] curves on that, and we\u2019re trying to take a stepwise approach to get there faster,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy sought $195 million for Project Overmatch<\/a> in fiscal 2023, a 167% increase over the $73 million it received in fiscal 2022. Spending details have otherwise been scant, with the service executing Project Overmatch behind closed doors, a posture taken, experts said, to bamboozle China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mostly because they don\u2019t want to tip their hand as to what they\u2019re looking to put together,\u201d Clark said. \u201cHow they deter China is by increasing the uncertainty on the part of the Chinese, on the [People\u2019s Liberation Army], that they\u2019ll be successful on terms that the Chinese leadership would find acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Away from the public eye, Project Overmatch technology has already undergone repeated testing, according to Small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWithin even the first six months of the effort, we had done some work with the Marine Corps, for example, where we got some real-time feedback and did some connections,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe\u2019ve been to individual ships with systems and connected it to our labs to sort of simulate other [ships].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pushing Project Overmatch advancements into the real world is vital, according to Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOf all the services, the Navy\u2019s done the best job of trying to really focus their effort on what the operational commander needs, rather than things that the service thinks are cool to put together,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Navy\u2019s really focused on Overmatch, being focused on what the average commander needs, focused on the near term and, therefore, focused on actual systems that can be deployed today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fall, the technology was used in the Army\u2019s Project Convergence exercise<\/a> across multiple units, Small said. The weekslong experiment, during which bleeding-edge tech is put through the wringer, represents the Army\u2019s contribution to JADC2. The Air Force, likewise, has its Advanced Battle Management System, an attempt to adopt the next generation of command-and-control tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System is expected to enable the rapid collection, processing and sharing of data across all domains, weapons systems and commands. (U.S. Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But there are concerns the separate efforts are not properly aligned. An early draft of the annual defense bill included an audit of JADC2, with the House Armed Services Committee\u2019s cyber and innovative technologies panel, chaired by retiring Rhode Island Democrat Rep. Jim Langevin, requesting a study on timelines, goals and potential shortfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense officials have also expressed skepticism. The Air Force\u2019s principal cyber adviser, Wanda Jones-Heath, in July described the services\u2019 efforts as \u201call different.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data-centric odyssey is of the highest stakes as the U.S. and allied nations attempt to thwart Chinese and Russian ambitions, officials argue. Beijing and Moscow have each spent significant sums on military science and technology \u2014 including artificial intelligence and cyber advancements \u2014 ratcheting up the pace at which information must be exchanged and decisions must be made on the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHere\u2019s how I see it: any data, anywhere, any time that is needed. And the vision, when I start to spin this out, is coalition warfare,\u201d Pentagon Chief Information Officer John Sherman said at a Defense Information Systems Agency event Nov. 7. \u201cYou have a U.S. Marine Corps [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] getting a firing solution from an Australian [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] capability; maybe you have a Japanese frigate that\u2019s also going to hit the same target there; you\u2019ve got multinational F-35s coming on station to provide combat air-support capability. All of this is going to have to happen quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilday in October said the Navy is sharing Project Overmatch insights with foreign forces<\/a> to ensure international communication and collaboration will be possible in large-scale, distributed fights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though Gilday did not identify those allies, Small told Defense News his program started with Five Eyes \u2014 an intelligence-sharing group made up of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Small added that the U.S. has since welcomed other allies and partners to collaborate on software development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No final destination<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Some ships will have to wait for their next maintenance period to receive hardware and software changes, but Small said his team is working through policy issues to allow for installations to happen pier-side and, therefore, on a quicker timeline. In the meantime, the Project Overmatch team will chip away at the next increment, even as it\u2019s fielding the first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur concept of \u2018done\u2019 has to change a little bit,\u201d Small said, \u201cbecause it\u2019s really not a traditional type of acquisition approach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense officials have cast JADC2 in a similar light. There is no true finish line<\/a>, but rather the massive networking endeavor requires a rolling development process to maintain an advantage over adversaries capable of jamming, intercepting and muddying communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sherman, the Pentagon CIO, said the key to JADC2 is speed and stubbornly staying \u201cinside the enemy\u2019s turn circle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis has got to move so fast that the adversary cannot get back up off the mat,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe they have mass on us, but we have quality of data, quality of capability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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