Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called for rapid changes to the U.S. strategic posture to deter two near-peer nuclear adversaries in the future, citing a recent report from the Strategic Posture Commission that examined the long-term strategic posture of the United States.

“The results of their report detailed the gravity of the situation we face and emphasized that the current trajectory of the US nuclear deterrent is insufficient to deter the looming Chinese and Russian threat,” Rogers said in a statement published Thursday.

The HASC chair highlighted key takeaways including the absolute necessity of the nuclear force modernization program and the need for it to be supplemented to meet new Russian and Chinese threats; the expansion of the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and delivery systems; and the nuclear force size and composition and its ability to simultaneously deter both countries.

Rogers also reiterated some recommendations detailed in the report: “The Commission recommends Congress fund an overhaul and expansion of the capacity of the U.S. nuclear weapons defense industrial base and the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration nuclear security enterprise… [and] the United States urgently deploy a more resilient space architecture and adopt a strategy that includes both offensive and defensive elements to ensure U.S. access to and operations in space.”

The U.S. Army is implementing an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance architecture modernization strategy that includes quantum computing and commercial satellite communications for the space, terrestrial and aerial domains, branch officials told attendees of the Association of the United States Army conference.

Leaders including Lt. Gen. Laura Potter, Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence, and Andrew Evans, director of the Army’s ISR Task Force, expounded on the Army Field Manual FM 2.0 – Intelligence doctrine published earlier this month.

Potter explained that the service branch’s ISR transformation will take place in “three layers: the space layer, taking advantage of government and commercial space based resources; an aerial layer that’s a mix of manned HADES [High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System] aircraft and unmanned platforms; and then a terrestrial layer that has terrestrial layer sensing at the brigade level and echelons above brigade.”

The ISR Task Force is considering whether to continue using traditional means of obtaining data and analysis or purchase them from commercial satellite providers, which are increasingly deploying their systems on orbit.

“We’re talking about swarming using autonomy as fast as we can and proliferating it as wide as we can. Autonomy is gonna be key in the future,” Evans said. “We’re also talking about how we manage all of the data, because that’s going to be a tall order.”

Los Alamos National Laboratory and AirMettle have developed a data analysis tool to analyze complex information from large-scale simulation campaigns without compromising data security.

The team has created a common applications programming interface based on AirMettle’s Real-Time Smart Data Lake architecture intended to enable computational storage devices to perform in-place analytics and minimize data movement while ensuring data is safeguarded, LANL said Tuesday.

Donpaul Stephens, founder and CEO of AirMettle, said the architecture “is the first computational storage service with highly scalable in-place processing to accelerate analytics by 100 times or more and significantly reduce network traffic.”

AirMettle’s RT-SDL tool uses common data formats, such as Apache Parquet, and standard interfaces like the S3 object storage interface to perform analytics near data storage.