Command and Control Archives

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is interviewed by a reporter at the 2022 Defense News conference. (Photo by: Brandi Vincent)

Air Force to install new manager to oversee next-gen command and control

Air Force Secretary shed light on current technological priorities and in-the-works elements of the branch’s 2024 budget request.

Sep 7, 2022 By Brandi Vincent

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks meets with the commander of U.S. Transportation Command, Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, at Transcom headquarters, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., Aug. 18, 2022. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)

Hicks wants more high-level oversight of Pentagon’s JADC2 efforts

A shakeup could be coming soon in the way the Pentagon manages its Joint All-Domain Command and Control efforts.

Aug 23, 2022 By Brandi Vincent

Burke Baker, a technical director from the 2nd Audiovisual Squadron, operates a switch board in support of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) Onramp 2, Aug. 31, 2020 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Daniel Hernandez)

Air Force develops new model for battle management to underpin requirements for ABMS

The Air Force will release the model to industry that lays out what command and control should look like.

Aug 12, 2022 By Mark Pomerleau

Photo of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab’s Kossiakoff Center. (Photo courtesy of JHU-APL)

DOD schedules industry day for new rapid defense experimentation initiative

Pentagon officials will meet with industry on July 26 to discuss plans for its RDER project.

Jul 14, 2022 By Jon Harper

Today, surplus U.S. military planes are stored in the largest airplane boneyard in the world, operated by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group AMARG at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona

Air Combat Command directs all installations to use Kessel Run base monitoring software

Kessel Run's software to monitor resources at bases is expanding, and was used in the air lift operations in Afghanistan.

Sep 1, 2021 By Jackson Barnett

A member of a Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector)

Army to stand up multi-domain task force in Germany

The second multi-domain task force is being stood up in Germany to focus on long-range precision fires and other modernization priorities.

Apr 13, 2021 By Jackson Barnett

Space Force continues work securing space from cyberattacks

U.S. Space Force will be working with a Silicon Valley blockchain-enabled security company to ensure data and communications integrity in space.

Sep 21, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

1st Network Battalion Transfer of Authority — U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Juliet Calvin, the commanding officer of 1st Network Battalion, Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group, speaks to Marines and civilians during the battalion transfer of authority at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, June 4, 2020. (U.S. Marine Corps / Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert)

Marine Corps creates first ‘Network Battalion’ for cyberdefense and modernization

The Marine Corps latest battalion is all about enterprise network protection and modernization.

Jun 29, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

data, transmission, nodes, ground stations — (Getty Images)

DIU looking for help to reduce data latency in military command and control networks

The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) Ground Station will be a vehicle-mountable node that will collect data from the battlefield and semi-autonomously process it for Army…

Apr 6, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy speaks with Airmen during an all-call at Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson, Alaska, Feb. 7, 2017. (Air Force photo)

AI needs humans ‘on the loop’ not ‘in the loop’ for nuke detection, general says

“What we have to get away from is ... 'human in the loop,' or sometimes 'the human is the loop,'” said Gen. Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy.

Feb 14, 2020 By Jackson Barnett