Empower the Warfighter as a Platform

In today’s increasingly digital world, time is the new weapon and data is the ammunition. The nation's adversaries are accelerating capabilities with technologies like warfighter-worn sensors, artificial intelligence (AI)-aided decision chains, and algorithmic warfare. To maintain advantage, the Department of Defense (DOD) needs to focus on transforming the warfighter into a fully integrated combat platform composed of small teams and relevant assets, including equipment, unmanned vehicles, and more.

Each element of the integrated warfighter platform provides capabilities that increase situational awareness and combat effectiveness for warfighters and their teams. Warfighter-as-a-platform solutions:

• Accelerate mission operations with data. Delivering only actionable information and intelligence on demand to decision makers accelerates mission operations.
• Empower human-machine teaming. Machines are teammates, not just tools. The platform’s open architecture integrates capabilities, sensors, data, unmanned vehicles, and other intelligent machines across the warfighter platform and connects them to a multidomain network.
• Enable operations at the edge. With edge computing, there’s no more waiting for critical information from a central command. Forces can tap into real-time data about themselves, their unit, the enemy, the terrain, and more—supporting heightened situational awareness and better coordinated, yet independent action.
• Improve warfighter performance. The military’s greatest asset is its warfighters, so optimizing their individual physical and psychological readiness and performance is critical.

We’ve created this publication to give you an inside look into how transforming the warfighter into a mobile data platform enables real-time decision making to respond to and get ahead of real-time threats.

If you are looking for innovative ways to accelerate mission operations, empower human-machine teaming, enable operations at the edge, and improve warfighter performance, this publication is for you.