Schuyler Moore and Brig. Gen. John Cogbill of U.S. Central Command said CENTCOM has made its shift to digital warfighting tools based on live data feeds.
In an article published Sunday in Defense One, Moore and Cogbill discussed how several teams across the command tested software tools and developed digital plans based on a live picture of forces and supplies in theater during the Digital Falcon Oasis exercise.
The pair cited the importance of live data, which they said “serves as the anchor to operational reality” and the “bridge between conception and functional use.”
Cogbill and Moore also issued that the exercise has enabled the command to assess the flow of data between live assets and teams and called on technical communities to consider live feeds as the “backbone” of digital warfighting and advance the development of new tools.
“The series has proven that any shift to digital warfighting must be driven by live data. Without live data, operators will be slow to adopt the tools, and quick to abandon them in a crisis where timely data is critical,” they wrote.
Moore is the chief technology officer of CENTCOM and Cogbill is the command’s deputy director of operations.
