Navy “Project Overmatch” Connects Ships, Drones, Missiles & Sensors to Attack in Seconds

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*A top Warrior Maven article. Republished for viewer interest

By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

(Washington, D.C) Torpedo-armed submarines need to locate and attack enemy surface ships and submarines, undersea drones need to detect mines and enemy submarines, and surface ships need to launch massive offensive attacks, all while simultaneously networking with unmanned systems and, perhaps most importantly of all, deterring incoming enemy anti-ship missiles.

It is a multi-domain focus for the Navy, operating within a conceptual framework calling for a heavily armed, yet distributed and highly networked fleet. It would be safe to say that “information processing,” speed, and shortening the decision-making cycle to exponentially decrease “sensor-to-shooter” time is now a defining concept in the Pentagon’s multi-domain focus on future warfare. Information at the “speed of relevance” from space, surface, to air, to ground, to undersea… is the sought after goal.

Much is discussed in terms of the Pentagon’s overarching Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy, and we hear often about the Army’s breakthrough Project Convergence successfully connecting forward mini-drones with larger drones, helicopters, robots and armed combat vehicles to attack enemies in seconds.

By extension, the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System on-ramp experiments have generated massive steps forward.