SOCOM Preparing for 'Omni-Domain' Battle.

* Special Operations Command's chief data officer is looking beyond the military's multi-domain operations strategy for the best way to manage a deluge of data and information.

The Defense Department is currently developing a vast network of "internet-of-things" devices that will connect the services' platforms, preparing them for multi-domain operations across air, land, sea, space and cyberspace. Joint all-domain command and control, or JADC2, is envisioned as a way to better link the armed forces' sensors and shooters on the battlefield in support of the concept.

However, "multi-domain is really omni-domain," said Thomas Kenney, SOCOM's chief data officer. "Information is coming from all directions these days, [so] multidomain is just not enough of a thought process as we think about data and where we're going."

SOCOM is focused on how it will manage and leverage the large amounts of information being created, Kenney said in May during the virtual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, which was organized by the National Defense Industrial Association.

Over the next 10 years, more information will be created than the amount generated to date in the...