The Future of Distributed Military Systems

Portfolio Brief: Large, exquisite military platforms have become increasingly more expensive, with onerous development and fielding timelines. Adversaries have prioritized countering these monolithic platforms, making them unlikely to survive past the first day of conflict. DARPA programs have begun to address this issue by defining capabilities around multiple, smaller, networked platforms to enable new options for disaggregated, dispersed, diversified, and disruptive military operations. How will these platforms be used, and what's next?