Science Applications International Corp. served as the lead system integrator during the Valiant Shield 2024 exercise in June, enabling international military partners to connect into a prototype of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Joint Fires Network battle management platform.
JFN provided the Royal Canadian Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and French Navy with the capability to share real-time information and coordinate joint fires and effects in various domains with a U.S. joint force consisting of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group and U.S.Air Force, Marine Corps and Army units to improve decision-making in neutralizing threats.
Valiant Shield, held from June 7 to 18 in the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea, validated the operations and command and control process integration features of JFN, which is being developed as a pathfinder for the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control warfighting concept.
According to SAIC, the platform provided live data feeds from the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office and delivered tactical data to and from the communication nodes operated by the U.S. military services with zero downtime.
DOD’s fiscal 2025 budget documents stated that JFN will enable geographically dispersed commanders to “share a common understanding of the battlespace simultaneously, fed by platform sensors that can provide targeting guidance to key weapons systems.”
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