Justin Griffin

[Raft @Raft_Tech]

Modern Command and Control is measured by how fast you can sense, decide, and act — together. Because the side that acts first wins.

At Lightning Surge 2, alongside the 25th ID, CPE C2IN, and our industry partners @LockheedMartin, @accel1nt, and Rune Technologies, we put the @USArmy NGC2 fighting prototype to the test.

Raft Data Platform and Raft AI Mission System served as the unified data layer and AI backbone inside that prototype.

During the exercise, electronic warfare targeting data, live drone video, positional feeds, and battle damage assessments were ingested and fused in real time through Raft Data Platform; eliminating manual cross-system reconciliation and delivering a unified, mission-ready operational picture to soldiers at the tactical edge.

Through Raft AI Mission System, soldiers issued voice commands to automate fires workflows, accelerating airspace deconfliction, target validation, and clearance processes that traditionally require layered coordination. The result was compressed time-to-shoot under live-fire stress.

As HIMARS and M777 artillery executed missions, ammunition expenditure updated live and linked directly to sustainment systems, giving commanders real-time visibility into combat power and predictive resupply requirements during active engagements.

Lightning Surge 2 demonstrated a complete, integrated sensor-to-shooter thread and validated that a hardware- and data-agnostic architecture, operationalized with AI-powered workflows, materially reduces latency, integrates best-of-breed technologies, and performs under real operational complexity at the tactical edge.

And none of this would be possible without the incredible partnership and shared belief of our teammates and industry partners. #BuiltForTheEdge #LFG 🚀

Read the Full Article: https://t.co/Yu5dQNino5

Photo credit: U.S. Army photo by Lt. Col. Hayden Howell

Depictions or descriptions of private industry personnel or products does not constitute endorsement or promotion by the U.S. Army or Department of War.

[25th Infantry Division @25thID]

During Lightning Surge 2, our @USArmy Soldiers are shaping the future of warfare. As 1 of 2 divisions chosen to test next-gen C2 systems, their feedback is vital. #TropicLightning #ArmyInnovation #NGC2 #Readiness
📸 Lt. Col. Hayden Howell & Sgt. Duke Edwards

[25th Infantry Division @25thID]

This is @USArmy #Transformation in action.

#TropicLightning just wrapped #LightningSurge, providing the crucial, hands-on feedback that makes our #NextGenC2 ecosystem more lethal.

Watch how the future is built: #Soldiers at the front, ensuring we dominate the future fight.

[Raft @Raft_Tech]

As we prepare for Lightning Surge 2, it’s worth revisiting what Lightning Surge 1 proved in the Pacific.

The objective of Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) is making decisions faster than our adversaries.

Raft Data Platform ([R]DP) and Raft AI Mission System ([R]AIMS) were built to achieve that.

During Lightning Surge 1, electronic warfare data, UAS-derived position location information, and air domain feeds were ingested and synchronized through Raft Data Platform ([R]DP), in terrain where future conflict is inevitable.

Raft Data Platform translated and federated that data across systems in real-time, forming a resilient edge-first, foundation.

On top of that foundation, Raft AI Mission System enabled real-time SALUTE and contact reporting, allowing commanders to monitor down to the platoon level and accelerate decision-making. A sensor-to-shooter workflow executed end-to-end.

The @25thID industry team, @LockheedMartin, Raft, @Accelint, and Rune Technologies worked side-by-side with soldiers in the Pacific, refining workflows as the system operated in real terrain under operational conditions.

This is what building on the edge, for the edge looks like.

Because the side that decides first is the side that wins. #LFG 🚀 #BuiltForTheEdge

@MarkAPomerleau @demarest_colin @MeghannMyers_ @MichaelStone @JenJudson @briana_reilly @RepEdCase

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Congratulations, President Trump!

This is a win for the world and a clear message to evil dictators everywhere.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Just the Vice President of the United States sending some freedom seeds downrange.

Doesn’t get more American than that. 🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!

Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible, that would be about 2 million new legal voters in 4 years.

The voting margin in the swing states is often less than 20 thousand votes. That means if the “Democratic” Party succeeds, there will be no more swing states!!

Moreover, the Biden/Harris administration has been flying “asylum seekers”, who are fast-tracked to citizenship, directly into swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Arizona. It is a surefire way to win every election.

America then becomes a one-party state and Democracy is over. The only “elections” will be the Democratic Party primaries. This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.

The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America. Once the whole country is controlled by one party, there will be no escape.

Everywhere in America will be like the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Here's how we can Make America Healthy Again. Please join me. #MAHA 🇺🇸

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Kennedy explains why measuring everything by its carbon footprint is a mistake. There are better ways to protect nature that everyone can agree with.

[House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @JudiciaryGOP]

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:

1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.

2. Facebook censored Americans.

3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Big win for free speech.

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

It should alarm every American citizen that the sitting President of the United States, who has opened our border to over 9 million illegals, just announced that he would veto our bill to prevent noncitizens from voting.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Concerning

[UCF Football @UCF_Football]

GAMEDAY

[SpringCentral @springcentral]

With 20 years of Spring in the books, we’re looking back on the innovations that made us who we are today — from the early days of Spring to our recent Spring Boot 3.1.0 release! 👏

Check them out below and get the Spring support you need here: https://t.co/W4vM0BE0Ah

[UCF Football @UCF_Football]

Only at UCF 🚀

[Jason Aldean @Jason_Aldean]

In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it- and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage -and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far.

As so many pointed out, I was present at Route 91-where so many lost their lives- and our community recently suffered another heartbreaking tragedy. NO ONE, including me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families ripped apart.

Try That In A Small Town, for me, refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief. Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences. My political views have never been something I’ve hidden from, and I know that a lot of us in this Country don’t agree on how we get back to a sense of normalcy where we go at least a day without a headline that keeps us up at night. But the desire for it to- that’s what this song is about.

[Erich Pratt @erichmpratt]

Despite Leftist fearmongering, FL’s permitless carry became law without blood running in the streets. But recent high-profile shootings—in places like Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia—are occurring in anti-gun cities. Gun control is a huge failure.

[Raft @Raft_Tech]

You can't win if you don't play! Proud to share that Raft won the @ACGNationalCapi Growth Award. #Kudos and thanks to all the #Rafters - you make the difficult fun and possible. #LFG #digitalengineering
Congratulations to the many finalists and winners!

[John Lovell | the Warrior Poet @johnlovell275]

I was just thinking that getting in shape is a terrific way to love your spouse. Not taking care of your body is simultaneously not taking care of your marriage. Gluttony isn’t okay. It is lack of self-restraint, and causes every area of your life to suffer. You got this folks 💪

[John Lovell | the Warrior Poet @johnlovell275]

🌈 Today I’m teaching my sons what the rainbow stands for 🏹 🐑