Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
This Monday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on Joint All-Domain Command and Control and more.
We start off with what's next for Joint All-Domain Command and Control:
Following implementation plan sign-off, DOD focused on JADC2 capability delivery
With the Defense Department's final installment of its delivery plan tied to the military-wide Joint All-Domain Command and Control completed, the general in charge of the effort said today officials "are now focused from our most senior leader on down to delivery of a capability."
Related, in case you missed it:
Pentagon completes classified JADC2 implementation plan
The Pentagon has finished its classified Joint All-Domain Command and Control implementation plan and has released an unclassified executive summary of its JADC2 strategy, which is intended to set the department on a path to connect all U.S. military battlefield sensors to a single network.
Document: Pentagon's JADC2 strategy summary
Legacy Army aviation programs like the Black Hawk and Chinook are getting funding boosts:
Army aviation benefits from overall defense increase
Army aviation programs, including legacy programs and Future Vertical Lift priorities, appear to be among the winners from the defense spending increase above what President Biden requested in the fiscal year 2022 omnibus spending law.
More helicopter news, this one from the Marine Corps:
Marine Corps' CH-53K program completes operational testing
The Marine Corps' CH-53K program completed initial operational test and evaluation earlier this month and is on track to be operational this year.
A Space Tracking and Surveillance System technical risk assessment conducted last year determined the satellites -- which launched in 2009 -- had to be promptly pulled out of service:
MDA scrapped plan to squeeze additional service life from STSS after 2021 risk analysis
The Defense Department last summer decommissioned a pair of missile defense satellites -- the Space Tracking and Surveillance System -- which delivered three times their original forecast service life but were nevertheless expected as recently as last year to remain in orbit supporting the U.S. military until 2023.