MOSAIC Warfare - Fractal Enabled

The MOSAIC vision is inherently incompatible with current software

“The concept is called “Mosaic Warfare.”

Like the ceramic tiles in mosaics, these individual warfighting platforms are put together to make a larger picture, or in this case, a force package.”

DARPA

It’s fascinating to read U.S. Government “advanced technology” articles about some of the most consequential programs shaping our future, at the very time that government is shoveling billions of dollars into obsolete 1980s technology which by definition cannot win the next war.

One of these strategies - widely adopted or better said, being pitched, is MOSAIC, noted above.

Here is their pitch - warfighters have different platforms to kill adversaries - missiles, planes, helicopters, drones, ships - think scores of them.

Individually each is highly limited, but if deployed as a focused entity toward an adversary, the network effect kicks in - they become symbiotic.

These weapons are not only more powerful because they can hit at the same or most opportune time, the warfighter decision person can choose to use less or more expensive weapons solutions depending on what the “mesh” of the battlefield sensors suggests.

That’s not a big deal if you are talking bullets versus artillery but when a multi-million dollar cruise missile can be substituted with a mini-gun firing a couple of grand in bullets - it adds up.

In a real shooting war, cruise missiles aren’t going to be built overnight - so having a sensor mesh - on every weapons and communication platform - operating like the flock of birds - instantly changing direction - its a BFD.

MOSAIC is to warfare what these birds do - and have been doing for thousands of years.

The difference is the birds can do it, American warfighters can’t

Let’s take the MOSAIC thing at its word - that American military weapons systems need to be able to “attack in parallel” thus delivering a diverse set of capabilities, at the right point, at the right time, to destroy an adversary.

So what’s the limiting factor?

Why not just enable every weapon system to talk to every other weapon and the problem is solved?

Aha, now we see why America is not even close to deploying MOSAIC at scale and will not be if its current investments in obsolete 1980s software technology continue.

What is the most important missing ingredient in this photo - not missing, just invisible.

Instant communication.

That takes us to why birds and the Fractal guys can do this today - operate as a computational, instantaneous mesh - among tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of devices - and the military guys can’t.

Don’t get us wrong, the birds aren’t using Fractal, but their behavior is exactly what Fractal enables.

You have all tried to set up a network in your home.

First, it’s a major pain because that HP or Canon printer doesn’t like that Apple Mac. Try to get a Microsoft application to work well, as in flawlessly on a Mac and you get it.

Communicating among devices from multiple manufacturers will NEVER be a solution.

If it were, we could get our printers to network connect - and we can’t - at least not every time.

And in war, every time is the minimum threshold.

The answer must be a nimble, mobile, communication entity (not a platform, not an operating system) that can run on any device, from any manufacturer, with almost zero power requirement, in any environment.

These create a mesh - kind of our word, but it’s descriptive. Everything communicates to everything, all the time.

A second criteria is it must have NO CENTRAL POINT OF CONTROL.

That leaves out any cloud, relational database, Amazon or Palantir solution.

The bird swarms do not have a central point of control - they operate - artfully - with a communication intelligence biologists are still learning.

Here at Fractal, as we demonstrate “mesh computing” on Apple devices, for instance, we run one or more Fractals on any Apple device, even a watch - and the entire mesh works as one - instantly.

Toss out the watch, everything still works.

Close a couple of computers, everything still works.

Fractal can do it with thousands of devices - each operating like one of those birds. Together, they operate like the entire flock.

Several of you have called with a real application, and we are proceeding with you now. So you know we are doing it and we are demonstrating this like mad on weekly Zoom calls.

What stands in the way of America deploying MOSAIC?

We aren’t in DARPA so there may be lots of things we don’t see, but we have much more advanced software than DARPA so we can give you a solid answer.

America is blindly being driven to make 1980s software, which is datacenter centric, dependent on relational technology, which has not taken advantage of 40 years of chip innovation - to make 1980s software jump 2025 hurdles.

It can’t.

How do we know that?

Well you may have read about the recent D.O.G.E. findings that U.S. Government systems do not “talk to each other.”

That was Elon’s colloquial description of government systems’ inability to communicate because they were built in different decades, with different technologies and they are info silos.

Elon’s answer, and remember, Elon is the current conventional wisdom - what Elon says is a boss answer - even if it’s wrong - Elon said the government will do a sole source $30 million contract with Palantir to build APIs (interfaces) among these systems.

We do love Elon and nobody else can land a rocket at an angle and this article is being powered by a bunch of Tesla batteries in the garage - but Elon just told you why MOSAIC cannot work - with today’s tech.

Conventional technology cannot talk to other conventional tech without an “interface.”

Interface is a 1980s thing - and Palantir uses 1980s tech so they got the gig.

So how do you think an interface works in an aerial dogfight? Oops, someone installed a patch!

How does a satellite targeting app, seeing a possible target, chat with an Amazon data center for high compute - then back to the satellite - to target a ground weapon, uh oh, the connection went down - so that is what MOSAIC has to work with.

There is no user manual on the battlefield.

No customer support hotline with the Indian guy saying he understands your frustration from the cockpit.

What’s the alternative?

Let’s do a Fractal model here.

We put one of more Fractals on every device.

A drone, every soldier’s phone, every computer in the area, planes, helicopters - and they all operate, just like those birds, as a warfighting mesh - each collecting information from different places, at different speeds, some numerical, some photographic, some sound - instantly blended together into a decision mesh.

Every Fractal knows of every other Fractal - each is identical except each operates on different data.

Instead of “object oriented programming” Fractal delivers system oriented programs - where every Fractal is the same system - identical - with different data.

Thus no central point of control - which means no central point of failure - which is called resilience. The best Amazon data center goes down - you read about it in the press all the time.

Fractals do not go down - or if one does, the rest carry the load - just like those birds

Fractal enables MOSAIC, or its vision, which for the military is an asymmetrical warfare advantage.

This is something no other country can do - even the United States Government cannot do it - although Fractal can and we are beating on their doors to get them to listen!

The more dangerous conversations today are those at the highest levels of the Administration - to invest in 1980s obsolete technology for A.I.

At the very time Oracle demands $500,000,000 (half a billion bucks) for data centers, Fractal proves there is no application that needs a data center.

For MOSAIC and defense applications, Fractal proves every day a computing mesh, operating on every device in a battlefield is not only possible, we can demonstrate it today.

In the next few months, we are planning to demonstrate it on Apple devices. In a single demo, we can show MOSAIC is possible today - and that data centers are obsolete - because a mesh out-computes a data center.

Keep following us here as we share more on how Fractal enables entirely new business models, and in this case, asymetric warfare for the good guys.

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