C4ISR Watch

The Air Force official overseeing the Air Operations Center Weapon System says the program will be on track by August after this year's funding uncertainties caused a slight spending slowdown.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said today he's concerned about "50 or so" emerging technologies that "will definitely have significant impact in the military sector" in the next decade.

The Army's network cross-functional team has begun expanding its mission, taking the lead on "all four lines of effort" for tactical network modernization, according to its director.

The Defense Department inspector general announced today it is broadening the scope of an audit meant to focus on the cyber vulnerabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles to include "select commercial items."

House appropriators are offering an additional $194 million in their version of the fiscal year 2019 defense spending bill to accelerate the Air Force's move to a new Compass Call platform.

The Air Force announced this week it will shift cyber warfare responsibilities to Air Combat Command instead of Air Force Space Command this summer, a new step toward its overarching goal of enabling and speeding multidomain operations.

The head of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center said today the service is working with Boeing to use commercial approaches to buy the 11th and 12th Wideband Global Satellite Communications space vehicles.

Senate defense authorizers this week laid out pieces of a plan to speed development of a next-generation battle management network to replace the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, to include legacy command-and-control aircraft, remotely piloted aircraft and a new target-tracking radar.

Senate authorizers are asking the Defense Department for details on what it would take to upgrade the legacy GPS Operational Control Segment to match, or come close to matching, the capabilities being built into the troubled next-generation control segment development effort.