By Kathryn Bailey, PEO C3T Public Affairs October 24, 2022
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (October 24, 2022) – The Army is emphasizing data-driven mission planning as it increases readiness for operations across the joint and coalition forces.
“Commanders need to have access to more data for their missions, plain and simple,” said Col. Matt Paul, Project Manager Mission Command, Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical. “Access to more data breeds opportunity for those Commanders to treat data as ammunition, to outthink, outshoot and outmaneuver the enemy.”
Paul was part of a panel on “Data Mesh,” held recently at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in Washington, DC., led by Jennifer Swanson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering and Software (DASA(DES)).
The panel explained how the Army is aligning to meet the critical need for interoperable, robust data capabilities across all forces and that good information has been, and will always be, the differentiator in battle readiness.
“We have never fought alone, not even in the Revolution,” said panelist Alex Miller, Senior Science Advisor for Army Intelligence Staff, or G2.