Leveraging Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control
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Brig. Gen. Daniel C. Clayton:
All right. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our panel on Leveraging Combined Joint All-Domain
Command and Control, CJADC-2. Since this is the third day of AFA at 7:30 in the morning after Fat
Tuesday, the fact that all of you are here means that you're just as passionate about command and
control as we are. So thanks for being here. I will say that oftentimes today, command and control is
discussed in terms of having more robust connectivity, better access to data. However, I would say from
our perspective on the Advanced Battle Management System Cross-Functional Team, it's more about
information and decision advantage. So whether that's from the land, the sea, the air, space or cyber,
the data and the information necessary to make those decisions is what we're really focused on. And
how do we do that differently than we have done in the past.
Brig. General Luke Cropsey, my partner in crime here in the front row, will be talking about this more in
a couple hours in the big auditorium, but I think for this morning's panel we have three phenomenal
experts from industry who are going to help us guide through this conversation. So with that in mind,
we have Mr. Conn Doherty to my right, Vice President and General Manager, Battle Management
Command and Control and Autonomy Solutions from Collins Aerospace. To my left, we have Mr. Bob
Ritchie, the Chief Technology Officer, Science Applications International Corporation, SAIC Incorporated.
And then finally, we have Mr. Chad Haferbier, Vice President, Multi-Domain Solutions Division, and the
Manager at Leidos. So I'll ask each of them to give a brief introduction and then we'll go through a few
questions and start the conversation. So Conn, we'll start with you.
Conn Doherty:
Thank you, General Clayton. Good morning and it's great to be here. So thank you. As mentioned, I'm
the vice president and general manager of our Battle Management Command and Control and
Autonomy Solutions under Collins Aerospace, a RTX company. Our portfolio was actually created in the
middle of last summer. We did a realignment of different strategic parts across all of RTX, so Raytheon,
Collins, Pratt and Whitney to really try to bring together complimentary capabilities that can help
accelerate CJADC-2. And that's our focus and we'll talk a little bit about that today. Thanks again.
Brig. Gen. Daniel C. Clayton:
Awesome. Thank you. Bob.
Bob Ritchie:
Hey, everyone. So as mentioned, I'm the CTO at SAIC, which SAIC is nice enough to let me keep that title,
even though that's probably more my night job than my day job. By day, I spend most of my time as the
community practice lead for Cloud One, technical advisor to programs like ABMS, CBC2, and SDA's BMC
Cubed. And I am very passionate about what we're talking about here today. It's been kind of the length
of my career is software-defined infrastructure, software-defined mission outcomes, and getting the
right data to decision advantage. Thanks.
Brig. Gen. Daniel C. Clayton:
Thanks, Bob. Chad.
