Death to the swivel chair: How the Army, INDOPACOM bridge comms with allies

The US Army and Indo-Pacific Command have demonstrated improved coalition data sharing through the Pacific Mission Network during Balikatan 26 and Yama Sakura 91 with Australia and Japan. The network, previously called the INDOPACOM Mission Network, enabled shared operational pictures and information exchange across participating forces, reducing manual transfers between separate workstations. Separately, the 7th Infantry Division's Bayonet Quest exercise coordinated aerial and maritime drones, one-way attack systems and a high-altitude balloon through a shared data layer. That experiment used an adaptive command-and-control system and a large language model to help interpret data and assign tasks.