{"id":33309,"date":"2023-02-15T17:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/02\/15\/navys-project-overmatch-boss-pushing-hard-for-international-synergy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:49:38","slug":"navys-project-overmatch-boss-pushing-hard-for-international-synergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/c2-comms-battlefield-tech\/2023\/02\/15\/navys-project-overmatch-boss-pushing-hard-for-international-synergy\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy\u2019s Project Overmatch boss pushing hard for international synergy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN DIEGO \u2014 U.S. Navy networking specialists shepherding the service\u2019s secretive Project Overmatch are invested in international cooperation and connectivity, as Washington and its allies foresee a greater need to collaborate on the battlefields of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt least from Project Overmatch, we\u2019ve been pushing on that pretty hard,\u201d Rear Adm. Doug Small, the leader of both the project and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, said Feb. 14 at the West 2023 conference<\/a> in San Diego. \u201cWe\u2019ve already got an agreement at the \u2018Five Eyes\u2019 level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five Eyes represents the U.S. and some of its closest intelligence-sharing colleagues: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working toward a project arrangement toward that,\u201d Small said<\/a>. \u201cWe expect to be hand in glove with our international partners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Overmatch is the Navy\u2019s contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, the Pentagon\u2019s pursuit of seamless linkages across land, air, sea, space and cyber. Since its 2020 inception, the project has been shrouded in secrecy, a move experts say is necessitated by always-prying China and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday in October said the service is sharing insights from Project Overmatch<\/a> with forces abroad \u2014 namely those with \u201ca higher likelihood of interoperability\u201d \u2014 but did not disclose specifics. Small on Tuesday offered few additional details, but said the \u201cstrategic advantage\u201d of the U.S. rests on its \u201cfriends and allies around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur adversaries have to do that by hook or crook or coercion. We have friends and allies that we work together on these sorts of things,\u201d the admiral said. \u201cEverything we do should be with a mind toward being absolutely interchangeable with our partners. That\u2019s the way they operate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t