Air Force ops director: Industry should continue tackling MDC2 while service experiments

By Rachel Cohen / September 26, 2018 at 4:38 PM
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- The Air Force is taking its time to flesh out a multidomain command-and-control framework that spans data standards and emerging technologies before the service broaches the topic of procurement with industry. Brig. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, the Air Force's operations director who oversaw last year's enterprise study of MDC2, indicated he's comfortable letting industry take the lead while the service gets a better sense of how to achieve what it wants. "What we're talking about here...

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