The US Army is contributing Long-Range Army Fires, troops on the ground, and Sentinel radar. The Navy is bringing F-35Cs and a destroyer; and the Air Force will bring F-22 and F-35 fighter jets.
Raytheon Multi-Domain Command & Control (MDC2) concept
SANTA MONICA: The Air Force will lead the first experiment of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capabilities in two weeks, tying fighter jets to Army ground systems and Navy ships in a real-world example of Multi-Domain Operations.
Preston Dunlap, Air Force chief architect for acquisition, told Breaking D that the exercise in Florida will “be powered by” the service’s nascent Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS).
The Army is contributing Long-Range Army Fires, troops on the ground, and Sentinel radar. The Navy is bringing F-35Cs and a destroyer; and the Air Force will bring F-22 and F-35 fighter jets. In addition, he said, certain “innovative” vendors will be providing “new technologies” to help the various platforms connect. “We’re going to bring all that together for the first time and share data,” he said.
Rather than an experiment or exercise, Dunlap said he preferred to call the event the first of hopefully many “on-ramps” for achieving JADC2 capability.
Speaking here today at RAND’s 5th Annual West Coast Aerospace Forum, Dunlap said the exercise is called “Cross-Domain One” and that it is the first in the Air Force’s planned four-month cycle of ABMS development that acquisition czar Will Roper told Breaking D about back in September.