The Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research is cooperating with Binghamton University on a research project that investigators expect to enhance the “availability and resilience” of command and control networks—ensuring “an operator’s continuous access to battlefield information,” according to Binghamton professor Eva Wu. Wu is leading the New York university team that will receive approximately $100,000 for the two-year project titled “Highly Available C2 Supporting Systems for Air Operation.”
The U.S. military is sending more fighter jets to the Middle East to step up its war with Iran, adding to what is already the largest buildup of airpower in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For now, the operation shows little sign of coming to a quick…