The Marine Corps wants to ensure all the right data can flow between its small units operating forward and their joint and coalition partners in theater.
The U.S. military commands responsible for North America misused at least $19 million in COVID-19 relief money on space-related data analytics connected to the Pentagon’s JADC2 endeavor, as well as office information technology upgrades, investigators said.
The global environment is changing. Political upheaval, climate change and the complexity of technological advances increase both the difficulty, and the tempo, of military operations, driving a need for modernization of training. Training systems that are adaptive, resilient, and scalable, provide critical flexibility in efficiently and effectively preparing the armed forces for today’s challenges.
“We’re never going to fight as just a joint organization,” Army Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, the director of the Network Cross-Functional Team, said this week. “We’re going to always have our coalition partners.”
“When we think about today’s environment, it’s less about the traditional arms race of the past, and it’s more about the technology race of today and the future.“
The Army will choose between prototype designs offered by Raytheon and Palantir, both selected last year to compete to develop the service's next-generation ground station.
The Navy is seeking $195 million for the effort in fiscal year 2023, a a 167% increase over the $73 million the service received for the effort in fiscal 2022.
Without the right people, and without the right recruitment and retention considerations, the Pentagon's Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative could fall short.