Mosaic warfare blends network warfare and artificial intelligence into military ops of the 21st century

WASHINGTON – Just when you thought you understood multi-domain operations, along comes the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Mosaic Warfare. Theresa Hitchens at Breaking Defense reports. Continue reading original article

The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:

17 Sept. 2019 -- It’s sort of multi-domain operations on steroids -- an all-encompassing force design that includes everything from military organization to operational concepts to weapon systems to tactics.

It underpins a new U.S. way of war targeted at blocking China’s strategy of hitting critical U.S. information nodes, and the technologies necessary to accomplish that force design.

Kill webs, not kill chains. Instead of exquisite platforms like the F-35 fighter, exquisite functional technology nodes such as an advanced infrared sensor that can be mixed and matched via artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced networks.

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John Keller, chief editor
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