The Multi-Domain Operations Capable Platoon

The 2019 Army Modernization Strategy emphasizes the importance of Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). A platoon-level MDO scenario video in an operationally relevant environment was conceived and developed in partnership across the Soldier enterprise. The purpose was to notionally illustrate the terms of reference and relationships associated with MDO and Warfighting Functions so they could be more easily understood and shared across the Future Force Modernization Enterprise (FFME). MDO requires the Army to adaptively integrate, synchronize, and employ multiple technologies and capabilities across multiple domains (air, land, sea, cyber and space) and create windows of opportunities for commanders to exploit. This adaptive and rapid integration across the domains creates new intersections across time and space for achieving competitive advantages and overmatch from the dynamic convergence across the Warfighter Functions.

The goals of the notional platoon-level scenario is to decompose and simplify the MDO concept and to enable:
• People: The intended audience for this video includes the military and civilian members of the FFME to aid in conceptualization and grasping fundamentals of MDO. MDO is a complex and powerful concept. The video captures dynamic MDO interactions at the platoon level that static slides and white papers may not be able to effectively communicate alone.
• Momentum: The video creates momentum for follow-on MDO dialog between multiple communities across the Future Force Modernization Enterprise (FFME) – to include AFC, FCC, CCDC, TRADOC, FORSCOM, ASA(ALT) and many other Army and external organizations to help shape and improve content and potential follow on video vignettes.
• Discovery: Discover and discuss capability gaps tied to warfighter functions with enabling science and technology (S&T) efforts. This includes unique S&T gaps at MDO intersections and convergence of warfighting functions and capabilities across multiple domains.
• Engagement: Collaborate across multiple traditional and non-traditional organizations to develop and refine new concepts that exploit S&T to achieve the multi-domain complexities, speed, and convergence MDO will demand.
• Delivery & Innovation: The work necessary to deliver the “right solutions” at the “right time” to enable MDO in 2028 and beyond that will be shaped by ideas, discussions, and decisions made today. The video illustrates the complex and dynamic interactions that could more holistically shape new concepts and S&T focus areas.

Видео The Multi-Domain Operations Capable Platoon канала U.S. Army CCDC Soldier Center