“We’re never going to fight as just a joint organization,” Army Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, the director of the Network Cross-Functional Team, said this week. “We’re going to always have our coalition partners.”
“Also, when you have a living and breathing threat,” Army Maj. Gen. Robert Collins said, “you need to think about the things such as a contested and congested environment.”
“You could have the world’s best weapon systems, you could have the world’s best army,” Chief Information Officer Raj Iyer said. “But our advantage in the future is going to be how well and how quickly we’re able to synthesize” data and share it.
“In previous wars, the difference between a good decision and a bad decision may be minutes,” the general said. “In the future battlespace, that difference between a good decision and a bad decision may be seconds or milliseconds.”
U.S. Army officials have likened the capability set plan to Apple’s iPhone approach: new, enhanced hardware rolling out on the heels of the last release.
“If we fail, the next day we’ll come back and we’ll find out if there is a configuration that needs to be changed or a policy for us to get after,” U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey said.
“As we enter into this fiscal year, it’s probably one of the few times that we’ve had four capability sets kind of going on in parallel,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Robert Collins.
The Integrated Visual Augmentation System, a Microsoft HoloLens tailored specifically for the military, is meant to change how soldiers train, communicate and fight.
“One of our new formations that we’re developing is called the Multi-Domain Task Force,” Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said March 30. “It is designed to be able to bring together not just the traditional kinetic effects, but also to be able to leverage information, cyber and space.”
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