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2020-10-15 智邦网
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据c4isrnet网10月14日报道，美海军高级官员任命前水面作战官员为工程技术官员，负责组建强大的、全域连接网络，以加强针对中国的网络战。
海军作战部长迈克尔·吉尔德上将任命道格拉斯·思摩尔少将牵头组织名为“强者计划”的计划，被列为海军仅次于哥伦比亚级弹道导弹潜艇计划的最优先计划，旨在“研发网络、基础设施、数据架构、工具和相关分析，为增强持续海洋优势提供作战和发展环境”，为海军提供由近到远、全域作战致命和非致命手段。
过去，吉尔德把建立强大网络称为海军“曼哈顿计划”，称计划旨在“建立有人/无人联合部队，采用人工智能和机器学习技术，增强海上分布式作战能力”，建立“海军作战体系架构”，快速链接和赋能未来作战力量，并与空军联合全域指挥控制系统链接。
海军希望通过小型无人机等把舰船、飞机和无人平台链接起来，如未来护卫舰或E-2d“鹰眼”等新型飞机，提出新的作战概念。
分布式网络作战力量将连接不同作战人员，一旦单个网络节点发现攻击目标，所有射程内海军或空军部队作战人员都可实施有效攻击。
The US Navy’s ‘Manhattan Project’ has its leader
WASHINGTON – The US Navy’s top officer has tasked a former surface warfare officer turned engineering duty officer to create a powerful, all-connecting network service leaders believe they will need to fight and win against a high-end foe such as China.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday tasked Rear Adm. Douglas Small to lead an effort that will “develop networks, infrastructure, data architecture, tools, and analytics that support the operational and developmental environment that will enable our sustained maritime dominance.”
Calling the effort “Project Overmatch,” Gilday called it the Navy’s top priority after the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.
“Beyond recapitalizing our undersea deterrent, there is no higher developmental priority in the U.S. Navy,” Gilday said. “All other efforts are supporting you. Your goal is to enable a Navy that swarms the sea, delivering synchronized lethal and non-lethal effects from near-and-far, every axis, and every domain.”
In the past, Gilday has referred to the effort to field a powerful network as its “Manhattan Project,” harkening back to the rapid development of the atomic bomb in the 1940s. The urgency behind the effort to create this network highlights the growing sense of unease the Navy has around its position in the world as China builds towards its goal of achieving first-rate military power status by 2049.
“The Navy’s ability to establish and sustain sea control in the future is at risk,” Gilday said in his letter. “I am confident that closing this risk is dependent on enhancing Distributed Maritime Operations through a teamed manned/unmanned force that exploits artificial intelligence and machine learning. I am not confident we are building the Naval Operational Architecture connecting and enabling this future force as quickly as we must.”
The network is to connect with the Air Force’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort, which the services are all lining up behind.
Small started his career as a surface warfare officer but became an engineering duty officer in 1997. He has a background in electronic warfare and above-water sensors, as well as work at the Missile Defense Agency. In the Oct. 1 memo, Gilday has tasked him to report after 60 days, then every 90 days after that.
In a separate memo to Vice Adm. James Kilby, the Navy’s top warfighting requirements officer, Gilday said he wanted the Navy to develop both a concept of operations and a coherent kill chain based on an “any-sensor, any-shooter,” construct, an idea that would mean that any track obtained by any sensor can be passed to any ship or platform with a missile with which to kill it, something that would be enabled by Small’s network.
‘We don’t have and adequate net’
In comments last year, Gilday said the Navy needed to move out with urgency to create a powerful network.
“The biggest challenge for us is to join all the main command and control,” Gilday said. “We’re building netted weapons, netted platforms, and netted [command-and-control] nodes, but we don’t have an adequate net, and that’s a critical piece.”
The Navy has been working toward a concept of operations that links its ships, aircraft and unmanned platforms by way of communications relay nodes — such as small drones — or whole ships — such as the future frigate or high-tech aircraft like the E-2D Hawkeye.
The idea is to spread the force out over a wide area, as opposed to clustered around a carrier, to put a maximum burden on Chinese intelligence and reconnaissance assets. This spread-out, networked force would connect the various shooters so that if any individual node in the network sees something to kill, any Navy or Air Force asset with weapons within range can kill it.
This has led to a push for ever-longer-range missiles. But to make it work, all the pieces must be linked on a reliable communications network. The current architecture, according to the Navy, is insufficient for the job, given Chinese and Russian investments in electronic warfare that can interfere with communications.
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