Naval Data Warfare Techniques Command and Naval Data Warfare Heart Pacific management hosted Deputy Protection Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks at NIWC Pacific yesterday for a tour of its newest improvements in unmanned applied sciences and command-and-control applications.
NIWC Pacific and its companions briefed the deputy secretary on its strategic efforts to hyperlink operational ideas and capabilities, the strategy for which facilities on warfighter collaboration and steady, speedy supply.
Discussions led by NAVWAR Commander Rear Adm. Doug Small highlighted Venture Overmatch, a high-priority Navy effort to ship a extra deadly, better-connected fleet of the longer term.
“Throughout the division, we’re making progress towards joint all-domain command and management,” Hicks stated. “I noticed that first-hand via the Venture Convergence 22 experiment at Camp Pendleton, [California,] and program briefings at NIWC Pacific. The Navy’s Venture Overmatch will play a key position in sustaining resolution benefit over our adversaries, connecting platforms, weapons and sensors collectively throughout all warfighting domains for a extra deadly joint pressure. That integration is the important thing to making sure the Division of Protection stays the world chief in cutting-edge innovation.”
Venture Overmatch synchronizes deadly and non-lethal results and connects manned and unmanned programs in a strong naval operational structure that integrates command and management throughout the joint pressure.
“Overmatch lies on the nexus of mission autonomy, steady software program supply and all-domain command and management,” Small stated. “It is an exemplar for aligning sources with our technique to construct a resilient joint pressure, and it is a key effort protecting our NAVWAR and NIWC Pacific groups plugged into the menace with a way of urgency.”
A short on NIWC Pacific’s newest autonomous car improvements featured a tour of Sea Hunter, a medium-displacement, unmanned floor car able to long-range autonomous operations. NIWC Pacific supplies program assist, know-how growth, and testing and analysis for the unmanned floor car.
Throughout her California tour, Hicks centered on linking sources to strategic competitors priorities, together with JADC2 implementation throughout the joint pressure.
“The factor we do not all the time articulate once we speak about aligning sources to technique is that the individuals, the scientists and engineers working to resolve these arduous issues, are key,” stated Invoice Bonwit, NIWC Pacific’s government director. “Getting our individuals aligned to the precise duties in collaboration with the warfighter to fulfill these joint targets — it is energizing. I am grateful we bought to indicate the deputy secretary a few of that right now.”
