JUST IN: Marine Corps Faces Command, Control Challenges at Sea
6/28/2023
By Sean Carberry
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marine Corps maritime expeditionary warfare capability is critical to operating in the Indo-Pacific — and as much as the right ships are needed for successful operations — technology gaps in command-and-control systems at sea might be the immediate vulnerability, officials said.
“There's nobody else in the world that can do maritime expeditionary warfare like we do,” Shon Brodie, director of the Marine Corps’ Maritime Expeditionary Warfare Division, said at the Modern Day Marine conference June 28. “We build some of the finest ships capable of those things in the world and probably in the history of the world. But we have an adversary that's gaining on us in that particular area of advantage.”
In particular, afloat combat command, control, communications, computers and intelligence, or AC5I, modernization is not keeping pace with advances in technology, he said.
Scott Cook, afloat C5I branch head for the Maritime Expeditionary Warfare Division, said once the platform, access and tools are in place for expeditionary warfare, a commander needs to be able to coordinate the activities, and that requires networking the force.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2023/6/28/maritime-expeditionary-warfare-needs-better-comms
