Download, Disconnect, Fire! Why Grunts Need JEDI Cloud
Future soldiers will need to download huge amounts of intelligence data -- then disconnect and go dark, like a submarine diving underwater to hunt its prey.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on August 14, 2019 at 2:30 PM
ARLINGTON: To see through the fog of war on future battlefields, ground troops will need near-real-time access to huge amounts of information from a host of sensors — from satellites to F-35s to mini-drones to targeting goggles, all sharing data through a joint combat cloud. But to evade the enemy’s own swarms of sensors, soldiers will also need to know when to disconnect from the network and go dark.
Switching quickly from being hyperconnected to being cut off — whether as a tactical choice or as the result of enemy jamming and hacking — will put a new kind of strain on future frontline commanders. The capability to cope is central both to the Army’s evolving combat concept, Multi-Domain Operations, the Pentagon’s controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative, the JEDI cloud computing program.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/08/download-disconnect-fire-why-grunts-need-jedi-cloud/
