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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.”
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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.
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Brig. Gen. John Olson said that for JADC2 to work, “artificial intelligence and machine learning are absolutely essential enablers to make us able to react, and respond, and again, make sense of the information, then act upon it.”
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“One of the challenges that I see with JADC2 is: is it really joint? Or is it SADC2 — in other words, is it really just a service all domain command and control?” quipped George Ka’iliwai, director of requirements and resources (J8), at Indo-Pacific Command headquarters.
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The expanded experimentation campaign is also building new “business approaches” — some of which will require Pentagon-level blessing — to speed software-based capabilities to the field, DAF Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said.
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“An interesting way to think about this is counter unmanned systems is essentially JADC2 in miniature,” said Anduril’s Matthew Steckman.
By Aaron Mehta NORTHCOM’s GIDE experiments are aimed at applying AI decision-making tools to realistic scenarios “to show what’s available now, and to change culture,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, NORTHCOM commander, said.
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