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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.

15 pages EN and NL Public, free to share
Key figure: the layers of autonomy mapped to the levels of military operations Key figure · the layers of autonomy

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