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.
By Theresa HitchensLessons from Red Sea action spurring investment and innovation in missile defense
The demand for rocket motors for missiles is acute, with steps being taken to expand domestic production that includes more international cooperation.
Amid questions of authority, top general overseeing JADC2 defended the Pentagon’s current approach to the governance of the concept.
By Andrew Eversden
“We’re into the posture review, which is making its final rounds, which shows the gaps,” said Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, J6 director.
By Theresa Hitchens
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…
By Colin Clark
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.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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.
By Theresa Hitchens 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.”
By Paul McLeary
Strengthening the Aerospace and Defense industrial supply chain
Matt Magaña, president, Defense & National Security, Voyager Technologies explains how we must reshape the Aerospace and Defense industrial supply chain to make it stronger, smarter and more resilient.
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.
By Theresa Hitchens
“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).
By Theresa Hitchens “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.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“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.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“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.
By Theresa Hitchens
“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.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. “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?”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
