C3BM welcomes new maritime MIT lead

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HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. --  The Department of the Air Force Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management selected its senior advisor for its Maritime Mission Integration Team.

Mark Daniel assumed the role in November, 2025, and will now lead the Maritime MIT, whose focus is to align maritime capabilities with the DAF BATTLE NETWORK. He brings experience in joint and maritime operations, along with a focus on collaboration and integration across services. He has been a member of C3BM since 2021, initially serving as the Air MIT lead while working alongside Dr. Bryan Tipton, C3BM Chief of Architecture and Engineering.

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (Nov. 11, 2025) – Mark Daniel poses for a photo here, Nov. 11, 2025. Daniel assumed the role as the senior advisor for the Department of the Air Force’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management’s Maritime Mission Integration Team in November 2025. He has been a member of PAE C3BM since 2021, initially serving as the Air MIT lead under its Architecture and System Engineering division. (Official Air Force Photo by Richard Blumenstein)

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (Nov. 11, 2025) – Mark Daniel poses for a photo here, Nov. 11, 2025. Daniel assumed the role as the senior advisor for the Department of the Air Force’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management’s Maritime Mission Integration Team in November 2025. He has been a member of PAE C3BM since 2021, initially serving as the Air MIT lead under its Architecture and System Engineering division. (Official Air Force Photo by Richard Blumenstein)
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“Helping stand up the initial PEO integration construct alongside Dr. Tipton allowed me the opportunity to gain a ton of insight and experience along this journey, like running these teams and producing the needed architectural products for the Department of the Air Force,” Daniel said.

The Maritime MIT supports C3BM by coordinating with joint partners to ensure maritime data, sensors and command-and-control systems can integrate with air and space architectures. The team helps advance the PAE’s mission to enable joint, all-domain awareness and decision-making across the force.


MITs are the foundational component of C3BM’s Integrated Product Team construct announced in early 2025. The maritime unit is one of three mission increment IPTs, along with Air and Space, that use baseline-controlled mission threads to bind system-of-systems delivery with specific, concrete and time-constrained weapon system deliveries called increments. The Stack IPTs (Software, Data, Processing and Connectivity) facilitate strategy and implementation planning for each layer of the DBN technical architecture.

“The team is aggressively pursuing the architectures to address leadership priorities and guide system-of-systems acquisition needed for counter maritime superiority and the Air Force's and Space Force’s contribution to those missions,” he said.

As Daniel moves the team forward, he said he’ll continue building partnerships, aligning requirements and enabling data exchange to support the DAF’s role in the joint operational environment.

“Strengthening relationships is essential,” he said. “Our work only succeeds when every service and coalition partner can connect, communicate and act together. By focusing on how the system-of-systems can achieve a greater collective effect than as an individual system, and by aligning requirements, acquisition process, technical architecture standards and actual system delivery, we enable the collaboration needed to accomplish the mission.”

The Maritime MIT will continue to expand its role as a connective element between the maritime domain and the DAF’s air and space capabilities, supporting ongoing efforts to build a more interoperable and resilient DAF BATTLE NETWORK.