Is the Pentagon’s ‘fragile’ network ready to handle a slew of connected weapon systems?
Mark Pomerleau
In order for the Pentagon's new concept to connect sensors and shooters to actually work, advances in current networks must be made, a top official warned. (U.S. Army)
WASHINGTON — The success of the Pentagon’s future war-fighting architecture to link sensors and shooters is dependent upon a network that is somewhat fragile, the department’s top uniformed network official has admitted.
Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, is the military’s new emerging concept to collect a raft of data from sensors and systems, and then deliver it to war fighters in austere locations at the tip of the spear to make decisions at the increasingly rapid speed of war. (The “C†in the concept’s name was recently added to include international partners.)
However, the Defense Department’s networks presently might not be up to the task.
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