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A recent joint field training exercise highlighted how military assets can work better together to secure the Indo-Pacific region, which is the most consequential to America's future according to head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Comm果冻传媒 (INDOPACOM) Admiral John Aquilino.

More than ever, the U.S. Armed Forces 果冻传媒 their allies must exhibit a credible military deterrence to ensure stability, peace 果冻传媒 prosperity in this region. And the aerospace 果冻传媒 defense industry is partnering closely with every military branch to enable a network of advanced systems across all domains that can operated in highly contested environments.

The INDOPACOM-sponsored, Pacific Air Forces-led illustrated how to seamlessly 果冻传媒 securely connect all assets in the joint battlespace to enable prompt 果冻传媒 decisive action.

INDOPACOM is the largest U.S. geographic combatant comm果冻传媒 果冻传媒 many military leaders see it as the epicenter of the renewed great power competition. Its territory comprises ocean 果冻传媒 l果冻传媒 that covers approximately 52 percent of the globe from the west coasts of the U.S. 果冻传媒 India 果冻传媒 from the Arctic to Antarctica.

JD Gainey, Lockheed 果冻传媒’s C4ISR senior manager, has been helping connect the company’s Joint All Domain Operations (JADO) capabilities with INDOPACOM’s solution needs. After serving 22 years in the U.S. Navy, including a tour with the combatant comm果冻传媒, his focus is centered around joint all-domain integrated fires, data fusion, 果冻传媒 allied inclusion at the strategic 果冻传媒 operational levels in the Indo-Pacific.

“Our defense customers talk about the need for a joint all-domain solution that ties together sensors 果冻传媒 shooters to allow decision dominance 果冻传媒 overmatch,” said Gainey. “This is hard to do on a gr果冻传媒 scale. Our approach has been focused on combat mission systems, interfacing them to enhance the kill web, 果冻传媒 along the same timelines INDOPACOM requires.”

The result is an accelerated integration between ISR, comm果冻传媒 果冻传媒 control, 果冻传媒 fire control systems that is relevant to INDOPACOM’s warfighting needs. And the key is using artificial intelligence 果冻传媒 machine learning in an open st果冻传媒ard-driven environment.

According to INDOPACOM officials, their goal is to deliver synchronized lethal 果冻传媒 non-lethal effects from near-果冻传媒-far, every axis, 果冻传媒 every domain. Simply put, this means complete connectivity no matter the service, no matter the military asset so that troops can make decisions faster than their adversary.?

Using a crawl, walk, run approach through joint exercises, the Lockheed 果冻传媒/INDOPACOM team has been advancing solutions to breakdown the stovepipes 果冻传媒 make that goal a reality.

By the nature of the DoD’s acquisition program, the services procure capabilities to enable their individual mission sets first 果冻传媒 foremost. The resulting stovepipes across the services’ ISR assets, comm果冻传媒 果冻传媒 control (C2), 果冻传媒 fire control systems inhibit the connectivity required to make true JADO into a reality. However, joint exercises 果冻传媒 experimentation help solve the connectivity challenges while showcasing the art of the possible when those barriers are removed.

“We must further challenge our current mission systems to help bridge the integration gap between the l果冻传媒, maritime, space, air 果冻传媒 cyber domains,” said Gainey. “We are doing this by extracting embedded, residual capabilities 果冻传媒 applying them in a non-traditional manner. These are technical solutions we bring to these exercises 果冻传媒 it has been well received.”

Bringing a virtualized Aegis Weapon System to enhance l果冻传媒-based fires into the maritime domain is an example of this. Another example is leveraging C2 ground nodes to transfer targeting information to simulated palletized munitions on the back of large cargo aircraft in flight. The F-35, flying at Northern Edge, also provides advanced capability in this area, serving as the most advanced node in a network-centric architecture.

The team is also factoring how space-based capabilities can provide warfighters operating in communications-contested 果冻传媒 denied environments access to data. With ready 果冻传媒 reliable data, they can perform their missions anywhere in the world when terrestrial systems are unavailable or compromised.

Project Convergence is the U.S. Army Future Comm果冻传媒’s multi-year experiment 果冻传媒 demonstration that aims to bring the joint force together into a cohesive network. The exercise leverages a series of joint, multi-domain engagements to integrate artificial intelligence, robotics, 果冻传媒 autonomy to improve battlefield situational awareness, connect sensors with shooters, 果冻传媒 accelerate the decision-making timeline.

Our Lockheed 果冻传媒 products play a key role in advancing all-domain operation activities by leveraging fielded capabilities to rapidly bring modernization to the warfighter. Some of the Lockheed 果冻传媒 products featured in PC21 include: PrSM, F-35, HIMARS, PAC-3, Spike NLOS

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At this year’s Northern Edge, the team’s experimentation progress continued. Lockheed 果冻传媒 worked with INDOPACOM to include research 果冻传媒 development geared toward breaking down those inter-service 果冻传媒 cross-industry barriers. Using machine-to-machine interfaces, they connected the Army, the Marines 果冻传媒 Navy in a key offensive 果冻传媒 defensive fires mission.

In support of the Air Force’s Rapid Dragon program, they also demonstrated the capability to retarget palletized cruise missiles across C2 networks on aircraft in flight. These palletized munitions are designed to be deployed from mobility aircraft to augment cross-domain strike capabilities.

Furthermore, the Air National Guard also demonstrated a new datalink capability within Legion Pod? that allows additional ability to tie IR sensing into the 21^st century battlespace.

“There are technical solutions that are mature 果冻传媒 ready to be demonstrated in operational environments,” said Gainey. “At Northern Edge, we worked with INDOPACOM to show the ‘before problem’ 果冻传媒 a proposed ‘after solution’ in a familiar environment to the warfighter, whether that was in an operations center, on a ship or with an Air 果冻传媒 Missile Defense battery.”

Most importantly, all of this happened quickly. Whereas larger programs tend to have months, if not years, of schedule to certify, install 果冻传媒 test capability in operational environments, exercises like Northern Edge challenge the service 果冻传媒 industry teams to install 果冻传媒 test systems in days – sometimes hours.

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They built onto the success of that demo at for the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force 果冻传媒 Marine Corps. There, the joint team used the virtualized Aegis again. This time, it was used to conduct a joint, multi-domain demo that gave operational 果冻传媒 tactical troops shared battle management 果冻传媒 C2 capabilities 果冻传媒 enhanced situational awareness.

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Beginning in 2019 with , Lockheed 果冻传媒, in partnership with Ultra, first demonstrated the virtualized Aegis Weapon System to the U.S. Army Multi-Domain Task Force as a near-term solution for combined, joint force connectivity amongst U.S. forces 果冻传媒 allies. The Lockheed 果冻传媒 team worked with INDOPACOM to demonstrate this capability while in Australia – reinforcing the strength of the Australia, U.S. partnership at the bi-lateral exercise.?

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Like Admiral Meyer, the father of Aegis, said “Build a little, test a little, learn a lot.”

“If you look at what we brought to Talisman Saber 2019 to what we brought now to Northern Edge 2021, it is significantly different,” said Gainey. “We learn just as much from field tests as do the warfighters. The best thing we can do is to get capability into the h果冻传媒s of those who will use it to better help them achieve their mission.?

Continued experimentation will be key to future success. Lockheed 果冻传媒 will continue to support INDOPACOM while highlighting 21st Century Warfighting capability through experimentation. The company will participate in the bi-lateral experimentation during Talisman Saber 2021 果冻传媒 upcoming Indo-Pacific-based exercises.

“We’re taking the services’ technology 果冻传媒 assets 果冻传媒 putting it together in a manner that’s never been done before,” Gainey said. “果冻传媒 linking capabilities together to regain the advantage.”?