In the coming years, the United States’ nuclear arsenal is likely to change in two important ways. First, recent statements by Biden administration officials suggest the United States may expand its ...

Decision superiority — the ability to assimilate, analyze, and act upon information acquired from the battlespace more rapidly than an adversary — has always been crucial. It enabled the Royal Air ...

Maj. Sherman Bierly, USMC (standing), points out key features of the Unit Operation Center’s (UOC’s) smartboard to U.S. Marine Corps operations staff. The UOC, developed for the Marine Corps by ...

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy A. George receives a demo of Next-Generation Command-and-Control system capabilities from a 1st Infantry Division officer. (Sgt. Brahim Douglas/U.S. Army) After spending ...

But, is this resurgence real, or are we simply observing a handful of highly visible cases amplified by media and investor attention? More importantly, what does the evidence actually tell us about ...

This commentary is part of the Exploring New Horizons: Japan’s Defense Priorities project, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by leading Japanese and American scholars examining the ...

U.S. defense planning has long been undergirded by a sense of technological optimism. This is nowhere more evident than in official statements concerning command and control networks, which inevitably ...

Gone are the days of command centers being reliant solely on radios and static maps. Today, AV technology transforms these spaces with dynamic data visualization, seamless communication interfaces and ...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has outlined the importance of the correct command and control (C2) balance for collaborative combat aircraft (CCAs) in combat scenarios. When ...

Space based nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) systems were developed as highly classified and sovereign systems, insulated from external influence and designed to survive in the most ...