Modular Detachment Kit (MDK)

Multidomain integration for tactical command and control

Booz Allen's Modular Detachment Kit (MDK) revolutionizes tactical command and control (C2), offering unprecedented multidomain integration by seamlessly fusing sensor and datalink information. Bridging the technological gap, MDK introduces a modular, tailored mobile approach that provides warfighters with a clear understanding of the battlespace. As a fielded capability, MDK ensures resiliency, overcoming the limitations of outdated C2 systems.

With the power to enable joint fires, close mission gaps, and accelerate decision making through AI, MDK represents the next frontier in advanced military operations. Employing model-based systems engineering (MBSE), MDK's modular, scalable architecture ensures adaptability and informed decision making for evolving mission requirements.

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In an age where our adversaries are challenging US forces and our partners globally. Our battlefields are diverse. They are worldwide and multi-domain. They are agile and in cyberspace. Peer Competitors are testing our vulnerabilities from vast distances, where every physical location is a target. Our forces and networks are at risk. Command and Control must adapt. As must our networks and communication links.

There is a better way. Booz Allen’s Modular Detachment Kit, or M-D-K, is redefining C2 by integrating Air, Land, Maritime, and Space domain awareness. It connects operational and tactical forces around the world, via edge networks, and to the cloud. It constantly changes secure connections, which are concealed from adversaries. M-D-K is a hardware, software, vendor agnostic approach to delivering integrated C-2 operations and training solutions that enables decentralized C-2. It securely connects sensors to decision makers, to shooters. Leveraging modular, scalable, tailorable decentralized C-2, sensor and communication nodes. M-D-K builds, fuses, and distributes a common operating picture across the joint spectrum. It establishes remote voice and data communications to positively control any sector from anywhere. And it can be operated by small teams of just 2-6 people. M-D-K’s modules provide the most comprehensive and informative operational picture to our military anywhere in the world.

Whether you need to establish an operations center, local or remote, Link 16 or Tactical Data Link access, secure ground-to-air radio transmissions anywhere in the world, to integrate joint or coalition, traditional or passive sensors into the Tactical and Common Operating Pictures, or to monitor, maintain, and manage the distributed C-2 enterprise from a consolidated maintenance operations center, M-D-K has you covered. Take only what you need. Connect ally and partner capability for complete battlespace awareness. And hide in plain sight. M-D-K brings Air Force C-2 capabilities into the future through edge networks and secure cloud services, providing faster, more robust, secure C-2. From anywhere to everywhere…M-D-K.

Features

Coalition and Joint Interoperability

Support an expanded range of data and communications standards
Achieve effective joint and coalition interoperability

Tactical- to Theater-Level Visualization

Establish a shared, clear understanding of the battlespace
Fuse sensor and datalink information from multiple domains
Employ robust, reliable communications, networking, and data-sharing capabilities that enable comprehensive battlespace awareness

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Expandable, Open Architecture

Rapidly adapt to evolving requirements
Integrate with virtually any sensor and communications/C2 system
Support future growth, including integration with sensor grids, cloud-based C2 apps, and AI/machine learning software

Modular, Tailored Mobile Capabilities

Selectively employ required capabilities, reducing transportation and manpower burden
Enhance survivability in diverse operational scenarios
Ensure adaptable, efficient C2 for joint and combined forces, allowing for operational flexibility

Machine-to-Machine Data/Sensor Integration

Broaden and enhance the battlefield vision
Increase effective decision making while reducing the risk of human error

Miniaturization/Virtualization

Leverage an agile, scalable, quickly deployable, and survivable solution
Significantly reduce footprint, risk, and cost

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Robust Data/Voice Processing

Harness a foundation for AI/ML, edge and cloud computing, and simulation
Enable efficient resource optimization
Use AI to accelerate decisions

Our Missions in Practice

Air Force: Enhancing Resilient Battle Management Capabilities

Booz Allen’s Air Force-fielded solutions redefine C2 in a small form factor package—seamlessly linking sensors, decision makers, shooters, and weapons in a globally decentralized network. Employ a highly mobile and survivable battle management C2 node at the edge. Gain the power to satisfy multiple operational imperatives.

Army: Enabling Cross-Service Command and Control

Now you can fuse cutting-edge technology with unmatched mobility, using Booz Allen’s Army-fielded solutions to shrink command posts while expanding capabilities. Link components effortlessly to tailor your solution to the mission at hand. Create networked distributed tactical operations centers with ease, enabling “right sensor, right shooter” cross-service, joint multidomain C2.