As rivalry returns at sea, navies are seeking dominance at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. In this context, using networked datalinks to enable, integrate, and enhance communications is a strategic, operational, and tactical priority for navies.

In order to achieve and maintain warfighting overmatch, coordinate deployed forces and enable new capabilities, the US Army, Air Force, and Navy are actively looking to new programs such as Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to ensure warfighters have maximum situational awareness.

As part of the Army’s efforts to eventually unify its tactical and enterprise networks, the service is developing three pilot technologies designed to simplify the planning and management of its tactical network.

The U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force are actively looking to new programs such as Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to ensure warfighters have maximum situational awareness.

The US Army, Air Force and Navy are actively looking to new programs, such as Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to ensure warfighters have maximum situational awareness.

Electronic support measures systems have a vital role to play in detecting hostile ships and near-surface threats like sea-skimming anti-ship missiles as they can often discern such threats at longer ranges.

Faster communications and continually connected devices, in the form of 5G and ubiquitous devices connected in an IoT infrastructure, will significantly change our domestic lives. Or so we hear during the commercial breaks between news segments or read in the Sunday papers over coffee.

Today, multiple echelons - platoon, company, battalion, brigade, and division – are all trying to communicate with each other using different mechanisms, whether via line of sight (LOS) radios or beyond line of sight (BLOS) satellite communications (SATCOM).