"We call it the tactical cloud," Rear Admiral Mark Darrah, who heads up the the Navy's Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aviation program said at this year's Sea-Air-Space Exposition. "We're going to put data up in the cloud and users are going to go grab it and use it as a contributor to a targeting solution."

The cloud-based solution was actually developed as a response to "the increased sophistication of adversary networked sensor systems." Or, in other words, events like a simulated attack by Russian jets last month prove America's naval and air superiority is under threat.

"It's about [the enemy's] ability to reduce the amount of space I have to operate in by tying their capability together and force me to operate from a farther distance from a threat," Darrah explained. In one scenario demonstrated at the exposition, Darrah showed how military space assets could share data with F/A–18s, a sensor aircraft, an unmanned Triton drone, an attack submarine and a Littoral Combat Ship. While the setup is similar to how carrier strike groups currently share information, the new network offers a much more fine-tuned solution and could integrate with new weapons and UAVs in the future. Let's just hope the Navy got those anti-hacking countermeasures up and running.