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 ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) defines command and control (C2) as “[t]he exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned forces in the accomplishment of the ...

Clouds roll over the Thule Tracking Station, known as callsign "POGO," operated by the 23rd Space Operations Squadron, Detachment 1, at Thule Air Base, Greenland, Aug. 11, 2022. POGO is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: We originally published this story about Haivision and its video wall solution for command and control on July 21, 2025. Our editors updated it with additional information on July 25.