EVERYTHING!!! The evolution of weapons, war, and everything except our thinking. And our Constitution. (This is an example of what my free blog book is making but not part of the book)
This new military project only brings us one step closer to a war that will end civilization as we know it. Civilization that has mostly benefited us. But not billions of other people globally.
The military minds below obviously missed the reality
that “Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything
is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of
government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a
global effort....” Jen Easterly. CISA director. Oct. 29, 2021. [the Cyber and Infrastructure
Security Agency is our nation’s newest federal agency established by the Trump
Administration in 2018].
SCIENCE & TECH: Pentagon planning huge experiment for its
connect-everything concept. August 2024 “We see significant progress,” in
opening up DOD data, one observer said. But a bigger, multinational test is
coming. By Patrick Tucker Science & Technology Editor, Defense
One August 6, 2024
The Pentagon is about to launch one of the biggest tests yet
of its joint, all-domain command and control, or JADC2, concept, this time
seeking to bring multiple nations together to test how well the Defense
Department can rapidly share very sensitive information with foreign militaries
that aren’t traditional partners, DOD CIO Daniel Holtzman said Tuesday during
the Defense One Cloud Workshop.
The exercise will be part of the Defense Department’s Global
Information Dominance experiments, or GIDE.
“The next series coming up in the next couple of months is
building up to a worldwide joint activity where we're going to have a carrier
strike group that the Brits are going to take across three different U.S.
[combatant commands] and [ports across] four different international partners
on the trip out, and then three [combatant commands] and three different
international partners on the trip back,” Holtzman said.
The military works across different combatant commands and
foreign countries all the time, but this carrier strike group exercise,
scheduled for the end of 2025, will feature unprecedented data and information
sharing, using data bridges the military will have to create quickly.
“What we are doing in the next GIDE is a series of
experiments that all lead up to that activity,” Holtzman said. “We're
connecting international partners—the UK, Australia and others—in ways in the
cloud that we've prototyped that are pushing the bounds on certain things.”
Holtzman called it the “ultimate example of JADC2, to how do
we sail that fleet through this partner that wasn't a partner yesterday,
[where] there's now a partner who needs to connect to us. And we don't have a
year and a half to build the new [cross-domain solution] and get it installed
and get it authorized and put a U.S. person there.”
The experiment will test new communications strategies, but
also how well the Defense Department can adjust its procedures and policies for
information sharing, a long-time obstacle to faster operations.
Holtzman said the creation of his position has been critical
for that information sharing, as he answers directly to the Deputy Defense
Secretary and that allows him to get around rules that other offices or
commands might put in the way.
“The challenge, I think, is everybody's trying to do the
right thing. Their motive is right,” he said of mid-level officials and
officers who inhibit the free flow of data. “Their desire is right. But their
goal is, the most important thing is to protect the data. Don't share. Protect.
When our goal is the mission. And that shift in thinking is what we're trying …
through GIDE to show, how does the warfighter get to vote? How do they practice
and train and do inventive things if you don't give them the opportunity to do
that? That's really what GIDE is about.”
Tara Murphy Dougherty, the CEO of decision-science company
Govini, which works with Defense Department data, said that while there is
still a lot of work to do to free up data silos in the Pentagon, there has been
some notable progress.
“We see significant progress…and it's [the Chief Digital and
Artificial Intelligence Office], their [Open Data and Applications
Government-owned Interoperable Repositories] initiative, and what they're
leaning into with GIDE and JADC2, and the direction that CDAO is going where
it's trying to be very thoughtful about the infrastructure that DOD has to own
in order to ensure interoperability of systems. But opening things up as much
as possible to be able to bring lots of different commercial companies and products
into play is, I think, arguably, a very good model for the department,” she
said. “It mandates the movement of data, not just within DOD and across
services, but also between government and the commercial companies that are
coming in to support them. And that's a really important exchange.”
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