The Physical Obstacles to the Pentagon’s Connect-Everything Vision
Jets, destroyers, and soldiers are very different data customers, but the Pentagon wants to serve them all equally.
PATRICK TUCKER | DECEMBER 12, 2022
JADC2 ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE
Several obstacles stand before the Pentagon's connect-everything vision, and simply linking computers and networks won’t solve them.
On Monday, Raytheon announced that it will help build out a key portion of the Advanced Battle Management System, or ABMS—the Air Force's contribution to the Defense Department's effort to connect all of the military's air, space, sea and land assets. It will join eight other contractors helping to create the Air Force's Common Tactical Edge Network, which “will provide edge networking to help operators enable distributable battle management command and control in highly contested environments to support Joint All-Domain Command and Control,” or JADC2, Raytheon said in a statement.
In November, Raytheon executives told reporters that “RIPL” experiments they were doing with the Air Force Research Lab are developing ways to give users access to information in contested environments by using artificial intelligence to determine what information is most critical and the best time and method for delivering it.
The executives also highlighted their work in high-frequency communications for command and control.
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