Army, Air Force Get Serious On JADC2: Joint Exercises In 2021
“Gen. Brown” – the Air Force Chief of Staff – “and I are both committed to making this happen,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville tells Breaking Defense. “It starts at the top.”
Army Seeks Electric Scout By 2025
The Light Reconnaissance Vehicle, an off-road truck to scout ahead of airborne and light infantry units, could lead the Army’s move to electric motors. But electrifying heavy cargo trucks, let alone tanks, could take decades.
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Army Rebuilds Artillery Arm For Large-Scale War
The service’s new AimPoint plan builds very different forces for Europe and the Pacific – but new high-level artillery HQs are central to both.
Do Soldiers Dream Of Electric Trucks?
While Tesla won’t be building heavy tanks, the Army Futures & Concepts Center says moving lighter, wheeled vehicles from fossil fuel to electric drive could streamline supply lines – and save lives.
COVID-19: Army Futures Command Takes Wargames Online
While the pandemic’s halted field exercises, tabletop wargames can continue long-distance. The catch? Getting classified bandwidth so you can discuss specific military capabilities.
ABMS Can’t Be ‘Sole Solution’ For Joint C2, Army Tells Air Force — Exclusive
The Air Force is pushing ABMS as the backbone for future Joint All Domain Command & Control. Can the network scale up from hundreds of aircraft to thousands of ground troops?
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Fog Of Information War: Army Asks Civilians, Allies For Aid
The hard part of Multi-Domain Operations isn't hypersonic missiles or robotic tanks. It's getting civilian agencies and foreign allies to fight disinformation -- long before the shooting starts.
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.
Cyber Warfare In The Grey Zone: Wake Up, Washington
WASHINGTON: The entire US government — not just the Pentagon — needs to wake up to the intertwined threats of cyber warfare and political subversion, Army and National Security Agency officials say. It’ll take a major cultural change to get the whole of government to compete effectively in the grey zone between peace and war. […]
How Army’s Multi-Domain Overhaul May Impact The National Guard
HUNTSVILLE: Modernizing the Army is about much more than equipment. To defeat Russia and China in future multi-domain warfare — or better yet, deter them — the service is contemplating cultural revolutions as ripe for controversy as any multi-billion dollar weapons program. They include allowing junior officers more initiative, ending chronic micromanagement; creating long-term “regimental” affiliations […]
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Army R&D Chief: ‘I Don’t Think We Went Far Enough’ – But Futures Command Can
For Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, when the organization he’s led for 31 months changed its name, its mission, and the four-star headquarters it works for, it finally found the answer to a question it – and the entire Army – have been struggling with for at least 16 years.
Services Wargaming Multi-Domain Consensus: Army 3-Star Futurist
“All the services understand the need to move to Multi-Domain Operations,” Lt. Gen. Wesley said. “Second, we all agree that MDC2 [Multi-Domain Command & Control] is the most important joint problem that we have to solve. After that, the specifics of how you conduct MDO – that’s where the variance is that we’ve got to converge on.”
US Army’s Brain Transplant: Futurists Move To Futures Command
“We’ve done concepts for many years and, frankly, the Army hasn’t changed much,” admitted the three-star chief of the Army’s in-house think tank on future war. But on Friday, when the Army officially put its futurists under the same roof as its scientists, engineers, and program managers, the notoriously hidebound service aimed to break down the barrier between thinking about the future force and building it.
Army Multi-Domain Update: New HQs, Grey Zones, & The Art of The Unfeasible
Smart missiles to strike hard targets hundreds of miles away. Wireless links to pull data from stealth fighters and foot soldiers alike. Command posts agile enough to coordinate it all — not only in open war, but in the ambiguous “grey zone” of hacking, proxy warfare, and Twitter trolls. That’s just a few of the […]