Adapting Cross-domain Kill-Webs (ACK)
Abstract
The Adapting Cross-domain Kill-Webs (ACK) program assisted military decision makers with rapidly identifying and selecting options for tasking and re-tasking assets within and across organizational boundaries. ACK assisted users with selecting sensors, effectors, and support elements across military domains (space, air, land, surface, subsurface, and cyber) to form and adapt kill chains to deliver desired effects on targets. Today's Command and Control (C2) organizations and processes cannot support multi-domain warfighting concepts, especially during joint operations. ACK addressed this challenge by utilizing a decentralized approach to allocating resources to tasks and assigning mission orders to assets, motivated by ideas developed in online commerce, sourcing, and supply chain management, such as bid requests and offers. The impact of ACK was to accelerate asset re-allocation and assignment decision timelines to be on the order of minutes, and the output of ACK was automated tools and decision aids to support the selection of the elements of a kill-chain and assignment of roles and responsibilities to each of the elements. Technology developed under this program transitioned to the Services.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- d1c4337a35a8d754ca5cfba16ea35b8d
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