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DARPA Seeks ‘Mosaic Warfare’ Approach to Future Conflicts

By Woodrow Bellamy III

Friday, September 7th, 2018

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DARPA Seeks ‘Mosaic Warfare’ Approach to Future Conflicts

DARPA's mosaic warfare concept of operations. (DARPA).

The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) wants the Department of Defense (DoD) to fully embrace its “mosaic” warfare approach to modernizing how its air, land, sea, space and cyber domains engage in future conflicts. DARPA Director Steven Walker outlined the new strategy—highlighted by the enablement of highly complex and strategic moves by composing multiple contributing systems—during opening remarks at DARPA’s 60th annual symposium last week. Under the mosaic approach, DoD’s air, cyber, land, sea and space domains will focus…

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