Of the many lessons drawn from over seven years of wartime experience, one that stands out prominently is the critical need to improve our ability to exercise the cognitive aspects of battle ...

MRAP All Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) staff vehicle and an M2C2 PoP vehicle undergo testing at Yuma. The Marines use commercial components to extend mobile capabilities to remote battlefields. U.S. Marine ...

Decision superiority — the ability to assimilate, analyze, and act upon information acquired from the battlespace more rapidly than an adversary — has always been crucial. It enabled the Royal Air ...

From the Cold War period (1945-1989) through present-day globalization, the importance of maintaining reliable security coalitions and positive international relationships cannot be overstated. As ...

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George receives a demo of Next-Generation Command-and-Control system capabilities from a 1st Infantry Division officer. (Sgt. Brahim Douglas/U.S. Army) After spending ...

We have seen the future of effective military command and control and it is only made possible by speed. In the future, adversaries will increasingly rely on machines rather than people for basic ...

For decades, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has struggled to make meaningful progress toward realizing the vision of Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2). Meanwhile, in Ukraine ...

When it comes to command and control, the fire service’s organizational culture is a collective effort for decision-making. Within the context of fire organizations, command and control values serve ...

The phrase “command and control” has been used for decades to describe vital skills and abilities that an incident commander (IC) needs to be effective on the fireground. More recently, the term is ...

When Russia blew up an old satellite with a new missile on November 15, it created an expanding cloud of debris that will menace the outer space environment for years to come. Hypersonic fragments ...