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Joint Warfighting Concept To Be Delivered to Esper by End of Year

Frank Wolfe

Friday, September 11th, 2020

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Joint Warfighting Concept To Be Delivered to Esper by End of Year

Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten (Photo: DoD)

The Joint Staff is preparing to deliver a new, Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC) to Defense Secretary Mark Esper by the end of the year--a concept that will heavily rely on artificial intelligence (AI), according to Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC), which supports the review process for high priority acquisition programs and validates weapon system key performance parameters (KPPs). The Pentagon's Joint…

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