Taking over for Task Force Lima, the new AI Rapid Capabilities Cell (AIRCC, or “arc”) will test cutting-edge Large Language Models and other GenAI tools for everything from war planning to cybersecurity.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Answers at the edge: Where to find solutions that connect the battlespace
When it comes to a common operating picture, not everyone needs the same equipment. What they need is the same situational awareness.
The UK, Australia, and more are working with the Pentagon’s Global Information Dominance Experiments to keep a carrier strike group connected to the allies as it sails through multiple US combatant commands in late 2025.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“We’re trying to be easier to work with,” the Pentagon’s Chief Digital & AI Officer Radha Plumb said as CDAO recruits hundreds of companies to help expand CJADC2 beyond the current “minimum viable capability.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
With Advana, “we’re kind of victims of our own success,” a senior defense official told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview, meaning changes have to be made to “get to sufficient scale.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Chief Digital & AI Office wants to bring in a wide range of software developers to rapidly create new applications for Combatant Commands worldwide, with the new apps plugging into Palantir’s open-architecture Maven Smart System.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Evolved from JAIC’s controversial Project Maven, Palantir’s Maven Smart System pulls together data from satellites, social media and other disparate sources for military commanders and planners.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Instead of a single, one-size-fits-all Common Operating Picture, the Pentagon’s emerging battle network needs a foundation of shared data, on which different units can build the software that fits their mission, said Col. Matt Strohmeyer.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Display screens are the eyes for maneuver forces needing to command and control
The Army is upfitting vehicles with big 24 or 32-inch displays that present multiple sources of data for a full operational picture.
2023’s Global Information Dominance Experiments were a race to field a “minimum viable” version of CJADC2. The 2024 GIDEs will open up to more input from the services, the Five Eyes allies, and a wide range of contractors.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“The Minimum Viable Capability for CJADC2 [Combined Joint All Domain Command & Control] is real and ready now,” said Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks. “It’s low latency and extremely reliable.” But budget gridlock blocks deployment.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Pentagon achieved a minimum viable capability for its Joint All Domain Command and Control effort through the recent Global Information Dominance Experiment, Deputy CDAO Margaret Palmieri said.
By Jaspreet Gill Through the reinvigorated GIDEs, the Pentagon is “for the first time” taking a “speed and quality approach,” Pentagon Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office chief Greg Little said.
By Jaspreet Gill
“What we’ve really been trying to wrestle with inside of CDAO is not to over centralize because the department is so diverse and distributed and so large, that we want innovation to happen at the edge,” said Margaret Palmieri, deputy chief digital and AI officer.
By Jaspreet Gill
At the moment, “generative” AI systems have “limited utility” for the US military, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said, but could help with some tasks if applied “in an ethical way.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Global Information Dominance Experiments V through VIII seek to jolt ponderous Pentagon processes into the age of AI, big data, and the cloud, hoping to inform a future meta-network called Joint All Domain Command and Control.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
