Disaggregated Collaborative Air Operations offers a creative responseto China’s focus on disrupting U.S. combat networks. By J. Michael Dahm The U.S. Air Force operational concepts for penetrating into contested areas assume that U.S. forces can maintain highly networked connectivity and...
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Freshly installed as the direct reporting program manager for the Golden Dome missile defense project, Gen. Michael A. Guetlein said July 22 that his first line of effort will be to create a command-and-control network—and argued that the space-based interceptors envisioned for the project are ...
As the Department of the Air Force and the broader Pentagon plan out billions of dollars in spending to upgrade and modernize nuclear command, control, and communications, there are natural opportunities to build on work already done for the sweeping joint all-domain command and control ...
The CAOC is the Air Force nerve center in the Middle East, responsible for planning and executing air operations across the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operations.
WORLD: Space: Space Command reaches FOC; New Space Force Exercise, Red Skies; Space Planes most watched on orbit; SDA getting 18 more transport layer satellites.
Frank Kendall ordered in September a sweeping review of five lines of effort across the department, seeking to uproot the impediments to current and future readiness.
The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded a contract worth approximately $515 million to California-based Rocket Lab for 18 satellites that will help form the Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) of its massive low-Earth orbit constellation.
Kendall has posited a force of at least 1,000 CCAs, with the first ones ready for duty within the next six years. That timeline demands a robust and fast-paced test program.
The U.S. took a significant step in modernizing its air defense recently when a new system, known as Cloud-Based Command and Control (CBC2), came online at one of the key centers monitoring the skies of North America. The Eastern Air Defense Sector, one of NORAD’s ...
CCA's take shape; Modernizing the Battle Network; Scheduling the new nukes; CMSSF Towberman bids farewell.
Joe Sublousky, Vice President of JADC2 for SAIC, spoke to Air & Space Forces Magazine at the 2023 Air, Space & Cyber Conference about the future of air operations and JADC2.
A new theater-level simulator can help military and industry leaders gauge how platforms, weapons, and networks work together under fire, including the systems that will make up Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2).