It took US and coalition forces a decade to network themselves and share data. We can't afford to take 10 years to figure out how to do that when faced with near-peer competitors.
"The future network must be high-speed, it must be high-capacity, it must be multi-path, and ubiquitous to the user," said Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, director of the Army's Network Cross-Functional Team.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
"I will offer you there will be no sanctuary in the next fight. We have to have a resilient network," Lt. Gen. John Morrison said.
"If data is the new oil, then we want to mine that data, refine that data," to make it more useful across the service, Col. Peter Chiou says.
The JROC now will issue "strategic directives" to the services prescribing how they craft buying plans to substantiate the emerging Joint Warfighting Concept, Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, Joint Staff J6 deputy director, says.
The first real-world effort "to stress test our ideas" for implementing JADC2 is coming up within the next two to three months, J6 Director Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall says.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
"We even had representation at our [first] data summit from NATO," said Army Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, JG deputy director and head of the JADC2 Joint Cross-Functional Team (CFT).
"Standards, in many cases, provide everything but standards. Interoperability is a word normally tagged on something that is not interoperable," says Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, head of Joint Staff J6 responsible for C2 and cyber issues.
The upcoming JADC2 Posture Review "will show the department exactly where we are deficient in executing our mission or missions," Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall says.
The Pentagon’s grand plans for Joint All Domain Command & Control require translating masses of data across incompatible systems. “Unless you get the underpinnings of a foundational data fabric,” Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me, “it will never happen.”
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.