Inside the Navy’s Command Center of the Future

• SAN DIEGO—I have seen the future of military command centers, and it is small rooms with glass walls and video screens with built-in artificial intelligence.
• That’s probably a gross oversimplification, but those are certainly some of the elements on display at the Navy’s Command Center of the Future, a prototype project currently under way at the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific here.
• For those not familiar with SPAWAR, it is a Navy laboratory tasked with “creating an unfair advantage for our war fighters,” according to Jim Fallin, the facility’s director of communications, that designs “systems, infrastructure, sensors and the means needed to create a fully netted combat force that operates and interlaces all the domains of warfare, from seabed to space.”
• With clients and partners that include the U.S. Army, Marines, and Air Force, as well as many universities and other institutions, SPAWAR is a growing—and hiring—research institution that aims to give America’s military services “the ability to disrupt any adversary’s ability to conduct warfare.”