First, the transport capabilities that are connecting each of the nodes must be diverse, broad, assured and agnostic. The technical underpinnings of that network come in three parts: transport, a persistent information environment and datacentric capability.
Accordingly, we must design a network that is available, resilient and provides options for the commander to both organize warfighting function capabilities and exchange data with mission partners. We must be able to operate as a Joint Force Land Component Command or as a Joint Task Force. The challenge for the Pacific area of responsibility is that we aren’t operating just as an Army -we are always part of a joint force.
The concept of the structure is resilient and agile enough to adapt to different mission sets, while consistently providing access to authoritative data for commanders to see, understand, decide and transmit -through the network -a decision for action.ĭesigning the Network and Data for Distributed OperationsĪt the Corps level, the commander inherently has integrated capabilities at his or her disposal that integrate and synchronize information from tactical units.
#Intl collective series#
To construct this persistent information environment, I Corps established a series of network and command nodes that are task organized and purpose built for the mission, representing a collective of all the warfighting functions. Second, it increases survivability: We avoid becoming a larger target if we don’t have to physically gather to fight. First, it advances interoperability with the joint services, as well as our allies and partners in the region. This distributed communications approach not only improves speed of execution, but also addresses two other necessary elements for Army success in the Pacific. Deploying land forces and their network gear in the middle of a crisis comes with significant limitations due to the broad, water-dominated area of operations.īut if we can establish a persistent information environment that is decoupled from physical server infrastructure, configured for cloud-native deployment and integrated into a tactical data fabric, we can be poised to rapidly provision mission command capability-on-demand-and scale it across a large area of operations to support multidomain operations convergence requirements. The I Corps Distributed Operations concept, which we are validating in our training and experimentation events, was developed to address communications challenges unique to the Pacific theater. What we are doing now, to prepare for the future, is applying the concept of distributed operations -and emerging network and data technology -to how we can compete in this theater at speed and scale. With elements in Washington state, Alaska and Hawaii, distributed operations have long been part of our rhythm. Pure geography requires I Corps to think differently, and act differently, than any other Army Corps.
To compete in the Pacific, the Army must overcome a perfect storm of distance, time and space.
0 kommentar(er)
