White paper · NI-2026-01 · July 2026
The fight for command
Command and control against a peer adversary in the age of autonomous systems.
Uncrewed systems make command and control heavier. Whoever develops or buys autonomy takes on a C2 problem along with it. This paper maps four layers of autonomy to the levels of military operations and gives industry and the armed forces a shared language.
Key figure · the layers of autonomy