The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it is looking to provide a minimum viable capability (MVC) of Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) – one of the Pentagon’s top modernization priorities – to the Joint Force by the end of the year.
CJADC2 is a warfighting concept that aims to connect military assets – such as data sensors and other communications devices – across all warfighting domains.
The Pentagon’s CJADC2 strategy envisions a network of networks to share sensor data across land, air, sea, space, and cyberspace forces to enable better and faster decisions, using technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and edge computing.
The DoD announced its goal to provide an MVC during the eighth iteration of its Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE 8) – which began on Dec. 4 and concluded on Dec. 15. The experiments are designed to iteratively test, measure, optimize, and field CJADC2 solutions to use a unified data layer.
This time, the Pentagon said the primary goal of GIDE 8 was to deliver a CJADC2 capability aligned to two missions: global integration and joint fires.
“By the end of the year, the experiment aims to successfully iterate on CJADC2 concepts, wargame global crisis scenarios, develop new Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and influence policy to move the department’s CJADC2 efforts forward,” the Pentagon said in a press release.
“GIDE 8 is culminating a year of rapid experimentation resulting in the fielding of initial CJADC2 capabilities focusing on global integration for decision advantage,” said Col. Matthew Strohmeyer, experiment director for GIDE.
The Pentagon said the GIDE experiments will continue into 2024, building on lessons learned from previous iterations.
