General Jeffrey Harrigan said we have a
strategy called the isr 2030 game plan
that looks at capabilities we have today
and what we will have in the futur. AI Em-powered systems can instantly
identify targets and objects of
relevance and compare potential response
scenarios against what has worked
previously to optimize combat operation
effectiveness and present possibilities
to humans performing command and control. The concept as articulated in a Northrop
essay is to enable continuous 24 7, uninterrupted in theater operations
among nato allies.
Part of the increased allied
collaboration made more possible with
emerging systems such as NATO AGS, rests
upon a successful ability to safely and
effectively manage airspace. Many nations are much more supportive of
our ability to operate over their
territories and in their airspace. In
part because we ensure that they are
comfortable with the deconfliction. we help them understand how we are going
to operate and what we are going to do, Herogen added.
Allied interoperability, particularly as
it pertains to rapid warfare decision
making is something heavily emphasized
by air force chief of staff general Charles Brown as well who reminded
people of the famous OODA Loop in an
interesting presentation at the 2021 air
force association symposium.
"We need to take a different approach, we
need to make decisions at the speed of
relevance. those decisions need to be informed by
analysis and they need to be made in a
timely manner to outpace our competitors
decision cycle. Remember John Boyd and the OODA Loop? We
need to do that at the strategic level, "Brown told an Afa Audience.
According to
a transcript of his remarks, certainly as referenced by Brown Boyd's
well-known observation, orientation, decision, action Loop process not only
applies to air-to-air combat as
conceived by Boyd, but also introduces
wider spanning strategic dynamics as
well, given that NATO AGS and other
surveillance technologies will enable
faster, more precise and combat relevant
information sharing between nato allied
countries.
It's really about how we move data and
that's the key aspect and we already do
that outside you know outside of the air
force outside of the department of
defense, Brown said. Certainly moving analyses and organized
information in near instantaneous
fashion could bear heavily upon the OODA Loop process, given that its successful
competition to achieve victory in air
war engagement relies upon the speed of
decision-making.
