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The US Army hacked its own systems to achieve interoperability between military tech
Engineers and coders broke down decades-old, siloed systems
Immediate results already being deployed to US forces
The US Army has been attempting to hack its own military systems and remove the technical barriers that prevent weapons, sensors, radars, drones and the overlying command software from communicating with each other.
The interoperability initiative, dubbed Operation Jailbreak, was only open to engineers willing to expose software interfaces and solve integration problems directly, leaving business development staff and sales teams out of it.
According to DefenseScoop reporting, the only requirement was that participants must have been willing to share system interfaces. In other words, the Army wanted coders, and not contract negotiators.
Operation Jailbreak was said to have emerged from repeated interoperability failures highlighted by Secretary Dan Driscoll during exercises in Europe. For example, a US counter-drone system was unable to connect to a US radar system in Romania (per FT reporting).
Driscoll also learned that Ukrainian forces were able to integrate diverse technologies more effectively than US troops during training exercises.
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