The JADC2 Implementation Plan, now signed by Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks, is aimed at ensuring that there is actual follow through in making JADC2 real, says Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, who is managing the effort.
Amid questions of authority, top general overseeing JADC2 defended the Pentagon's current approach to the governance of the concept.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
“We’re into the posture review, which is making its final rounds, which shows the gaps,” said Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, J6 director.
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed the strategy guiding the massive effort to knit troopers on the front lines to F-35s, submarines, satellites, ships and commanders across the globe, known as Joint All Domain Command and Control. The approval by Austin “brings order to our efforts in the command and control arena” Marine Corps […]
Pending the Deputy Secretary’s approval, the Joint All Domain Command & Control strategy could receive Secretary Austin’s okay within “weeks,” said Brig. Gen. Rob Parker.
The command is leading a virtual exercise, called the Global Information Dominance Exercise (GIDE) 2, March 18-23 to test three "decision aids" using AI to speed commanders' ability to act.
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
INDOPACOM's Brig. Gen. Jacqueline Brown said "policy is a significant concern...If we build a network, if we build these systems but they’re not releasable to our mission partners, we’re going to lose."
Digital engineering. Open software standards. Edge processing. Connectivity. Autonomy. DevSecOps. The buzzwords are flying as defense contractors jockey to tout their respective capabilities as DoD's plans for Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) begin to manifest -- and new business opportunities.
"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).
"This is a change in the way that the JROC has historically worked," Stuart Whitehead, J6 deputy director for cyber and C4 integration says. "In order for JADC2 to work, requirements -- particularly at the enterprise level -- have to be understood and documented in a way that so that we can describe our requirements to our acquisition counterparts in a more specific way than maybe what we had done previously."
Standoff capability means warfighters stay connected and remain remotely located in a safer environment while making it harder for adversaries to target them.
“There's still a lot of folks who believe that, ‘oh, somebody's going to bring a big box of AI and set it on my desk,’” Lt. Gen. Mike Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, says. “This is not some black box. This is about your insight into the battlefield.”
"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 SOF guys are less risk averse than conventional ground forces, so they’re more apt to push the limit,” said Bob Work, father of the AI-driven Third Offset Strategy. “Their commanders also have embraced AI and autonomous ops.... so I think all the conditions are set for SOF to lead the way in the more direct combat applications of AI and autonomy.”
“You’re not looking at my mission needs,” Brig. Gen. Crall told an audience of contractors. “If ‘there’s an app for that,’ does the app work when you’re disconnected?” Crall asked. “Does the app work when you haven’t had food for three days and you’ve been cut off?”