The U.S. military is fusing sensors, surveillance platforms and manned and unmanned air and watercraft into a networked, AI-enabled command and control architecture as part of a large-scale campaign to retain nonstop overwatch and localized control over the Strait of Hormuz early into Project Freedom, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.

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