Radha Plumb named new Pentagon CDAO as Martell exits in April
Plumb, the current deputy under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, has held high-powered jobs from Google to the National Security Council.
How GIDE grows: AI battle network experiments are expanding to Army, allies and industry
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.
First version of all-service battle network is ‘real and ready now’: Hicks
“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.
Marines Corps’ Project Dynamis envisioned as CJADC2 ‘integrator’ for joint force
The Marine Corps knows it can’t “solve JADC2 for everybody,” in part because the service doesn’t have the money or the amount of people to do so, according to an official.
MADC2: Air Force CJADC2 plans ‘completely hamstrung’ by budget impasse, general says
“Not having a budget is quite frankly, it's killing me, because my budget was supposed to double this year,” said Air Force Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey.
Startup Aalyria demos SATCOM software for DIU ‘hybrid network’
The company, a Google off-shoot, characterizes its Spacetime software as the "digital cartilage and autonomous brain" that can bring to life DoD's JADC2 concept linking sensors and shooters across all domains.
JWCC 1 year in: Military branches test the waters as DoD envisions cloud service 2.0
The service branches aren't mandated to use the up-to $9 billion services, but the Army and Navy are getting into the game with some secret-level and wargaming-related programs, according to service documents provided to Breaking Defense.
Budget disputes put Pentagon’s early JADC2 goals in jeopardy: Official
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.
Army sending additional ‘data stewards’ to commands, defining data roles
The Army first put out guidance two years ago on the idea of creating “data stewards” for its commands who would act as “kind of our spokesman for our supply side,” and will start codifying it in fiscal 2024, David Markowitz told Breaking Defense.
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Airborne tactical operations centers are needed for JADC2; Northern Edge demoed one in a KC-135
Integrating C2 solutions on more assets ensures that operators share a common operating picture they can act on based on verified, secure intelligence.
AI For Five Eyes? New bill pushes AI collaboration with UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
“If we want to fight as a system... you have to start sharing technology now,” the former head of the Pentagon’s Joint AI Center told Breaking Defense. “We can’t build the system on the eve of battle.”
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True all-domain operations? It happened at Northern Edge ‘23
Collins Aerospace and Raytheon successfully demonstrated a suite of sensing and networking technologies that are foundational to Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control.
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Nodes on a network: connecting ground, air, and building the small sats for proliferated LEO
The backbone for Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) will be a mesh network of small satellites in SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
DISA head says workforce needs better critical thinking, understanding of data
DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner also provided an update on the Pentagon's sprawling cloud effort, saying 13 task orders have gone out, totaling some $200 million.
In next Global Information Dominance Experiments, CDAO looking to speed allied info-sharing
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.