  Future warfare will require Command and Control (C2) decision-making to occur
in more complex, fast-paced, ill-structured, and demanding conditions. C2 will
be further complicated by operational challenges such as Denied, Degraded,
Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) communications and the need to account for
many data streams, potentially across multiple domains of operation. Yet,
current C2 practices -- which stem from the industrial era rather than the
emerging intelligence era -- are linear and time-consuming. Critically, these
approaches may fail to maintain overmatch against adversaries on the future
battlefield. To address these challenges, we propose a vision for future C2
based on robust partnerships between humans and artificial intelligence (AI)
systems. This future vision is encapsulated in three operational impacts:
streamlining the C2 operations process, maintaining unity of effort, and
developing adaptive collective knowledge systems. This paper illustrates the
envisaged future C2 capabilities, discusses the assumptions that shaped them,
and describes how the proposed developments could transform C2 in future
warfare.
