It’s tricky to define the multibillion-dollar Pentagon initiative aimed at linking up the military’s many forces and data. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday in October said the service was sharing insights from Project Overmatch with friendly forces abroad. To stay ahead of China and Russia, the U.S. military is attempting to dissolve the walls between the services, their databases and their weapons. “What the Army has now recognized is the importance of the CIO, the importance of running Army IT like a business.” Officials told the GAO the decision to exclude the F-22 stems from the fighter's "reduced role in the future force structure," among other factors. The next-level effort to link communications across all domains will deploy aboard a carrier strike group in 2023. U.S. Space Forces Korea is a subordinate of a bigger U.S. Space Force unit established within the Indo-Pacific command. “We have to be inclusive,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said, “or we’re not going to be able to fight together.” “It is a big army,” said Nicholaus Saacks with PEO C3T. “We have to be prepared to fight in a lot of different places.” Project Overmatch remains Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday’s No. 2 priority, behind delivery of the Columbia-class submarine. Load More
