In the modern battlefield, rapid decision making capabilities are more critical than ever before, and in conflict scenarios, every second counts. Warfighters and military leaders rely not only on huge troves of data coming in from sensor networks and multiple sources, but more importantly on the analysis of that data to inform their most important...
Hypersonic weapons have become a major priority for government and military leaders as the United States’ key competitors advance their own hypersonic capabilities and threaten America’s technological dominance. During the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Army Summit, the Honorable Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army f...
Quantum computing is not a new field by any means, but its impact and potential are still largely unknown. In the next few decades, experts believe quantum developments will have significant, game-changing implications in a myriad of fields, and the capabilities quantum unlocks will be critical for the country’s technological power. However, quant...
Established in 2018, the Army Futures Command is dedicated to looking far beyond the present to ensure that the U.S. Army is properly equipped to reach its current goals and compete on the future battlefield. While working to deliver on the more near-term Army of 2030 initiative, the AFC is also drawing a blueprint for the service...
Although the United States Army has been strategically prioritizing the “Army of 2030” recently, the service’s modernization goals don’t stop there. Today, Army leaders are looking even further into the future and preparing for fights well beyond the next decade. During his keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 8th Annual Arm...
Since its launch in 2022, the Army of 2030 initiative has guided the service branch toward its modernization goals. Now characterized by Army Secretary and 2023 Wash100 winner Christine Wormuth’s recently announced six operational imperatives – see and sense farther, mass dispersed forces with combat first, win the fires fight, protect...
The Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, or JADC2, has been a high priority for leaders across the defense landscape as they work to provide the United States’ joint force with a connected, unified network to accelerate data sharing and decision making. The Air Force’s response to the Pentagon’s JADC2 effo...
All of the four-star generals of the U.S. Air Force and the vast majority of three-stars assembled in June at a table top exercise that demonstrated various scenarios regarding strategic maneuvers required when carrying out logistics in contested settings and conditions. The service’s leaders saw it as a highly beneficial process that is nece...
Semiconductor chips underpin nearly every technology, weapon system and digital capability across the Department of Defense, making them increasingly important for a wide array of government and military missions. However, the United States’ production of these chips has fallen in recent decades, threatening our technological standing on the globa...
To maintain preparedness for current and future conflicts, the U.S. Army has embraced the “Army of 2030,” a momentous modernization effort designed to shift the service branch’s priorities to fit the characteristics of today’s international competition and deploy the technologies necessary to succeed in the evolving battlefield. The pla...
