The document discusses the evolution of multi-domain command and control (C2) and autonomy in military operations, highlighting key historical concepts and their implications. It outlines the primary characteristics of multi-domain operations, including speed, flexibility, and integration across different military domains. Additionally, it emphasizes the necessity for rapid data utilization and decision-making to achieve operational advantages in modern warfare.

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&
The Role of Autonomy
Canberra, 24 October 2019
Richard Czumak, Operations Analyst – 5th Generation

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There is nothing worse than a
sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

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MULTIDOMAIN OPERATIONS EVOLUTION
Air Land Battle:
Emphasized close
coordination between
land forces acting as
an aggressively
maneuvering defense,
and air forces
attacking rear-echelon
forces feeding those
front line enemy
forces.
1982
Full Spectrum
Dominance:
Described how the US
military could dominate
the battlespace from
peace operations
through high intensity
conflict by leveraging
advantages in
information
superiority.
Network Centric
Warfare
Introduced the term
“systems of systems”
and idea of networking
sensors, commanders,
and shooters to flatten
the hierarchy, reduce
the operational pause,
enhance precision, and
increase speed of
command.
1996 2010
Air Sea Battle:
Addressed how air and
naval forces can
integrate capabilities
across all operational
domains—air, sea, land,
space, and
cyberspace—to
counter growing
challenges to U.S.
freedom of action.
2000
GWOT
2012
Joint Operational
Access Concept:
Described how the joint
force will achieve
operational access in
the face of anti-access
area denial strategies
and introduced concept
of cross domain
synergies.
2015
Multidomain C2:
Conceptualized the
concept of dynamic
command and control
to tighten the feedback
loop between planning
and action across
space, air and cyber
domains.
Multidomain
Battle:
Advocated for using
advantages in one
domain to create and
exploit temporary
windows of advantage
to restore capability
balance for the joint
force.
2016
SELECT WARFIGHTING CONCEPTS AND OPERATIONAL THEORIES THAT HAVE INFLUENCED MDO

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MULTIDOMAIN OPERATIONS CHARACTERISTICS
PRIMARY
ATTRIBUTES ARE
SPEED, FLEXIBILITY,
AND IMPROVED
INTEGRATION OF
FORCES
• Will be high velocity, agile, and joint in nature.
• Characterized by dispersed, very agile, very
nimble organizations.
• Integrate across domains without regard for
which service provides the action or capability.
• Quickly combine capabilities across domains,
echelons, geographic boundaries, and
organizational affiliations.
• Provide networks of forces that will form,
evolve, dissolve, and reform in different
arrangements in time and space.
• Share data across platforms and weapon
systems swiftly and seamlessly
*These key characteristics are supported by joint publications and / or leader perspectives.

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MDO KEY CAPABILITY NEEDS
*These key capabilities are supported by joint publications and / or leader perspectives.
Observe
• Leverage cross-domain cueing to
detect and engage enemy
systems
•Develop all categories of
intelligence in any necessary
domain in the context of opposed
access.
Orient
• Quickly turn data into decision-
quality information
•Create sharable, user-defined
operating pictures from a
common database
•Collect, fuse, and share accurate,
timely, detailed intelligence
across all domain
Decide
• Integrate actions and capabilities
across domains and at lower
echelons
•Rapidly plan deliberate and
dynamic targeting from all
domains
•Synchronize planning and
execution across domains
•Enable subordinate commanders
to act independently in
consonance with the higher
commander's intent
Act
• Simultaneously create effects
from all domains
•Manage lethal and nonlethal fires
in all domains within the same
targeting and fire support
coordination systems.
•Apply lethal and nonlethal fires
flexibly and responsively between
domains.
In this information age of warfare, advantage will be achieved ... [by] harnessing the vast amount of information our sensors can
generate, fusing it quickly into decision-quality information, and creating effects simultaneously from all domains and all functional
components anywhere in the world.
-Gen. Dave Goldfein, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force
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