Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)

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Five things the Army learned about its network at Project Convergence 21

At PC 21, the Army's network cross-functional team director took away five lessons regarding future needs.

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Northrop Grumman Reveals Mini-CNI System with JADC2 Capabilities for Vertical Lift Platforms - Avionics International

Northrop Grumman recently demonstrated its Mini-Communications, Navigation, and Identification (CNI) system with open architecture and in-flight connectivity (IFC) capabilities for vertical lift platforms. The Mini CNI system is designed particularly […]

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US Army officials: Service needs ‘true data fabric’

The Army lays plans for a data fabric.

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During operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan, the division didn’t have access to the right data at the right time, Jock Padgett, the division’s chief technology officer, said. Because there were many disparate systems, the division couldn’t visualize where they were in time and space. It was also challenging for other military elements to see what capabilities were on aircraft to guide landing priority, Padgett added.

An additional challenge is troops likely will head into environments with limited access to data. One official equated this to infantry units having three day supplies of water, food and ammunition when going on missions.

“Once he enters that denied environment, how do we enable him to have that three-day supply forward with the data analytic tools for him to be self sufficient and continue the mission that he’s been given?” said Brig. Gen. Charles Masaracchia, commander of the Mission Command Center of Excellence. “We’re looking at how to match data analytics to leader decisions and then enable these tools with the right data.”

 

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DARPA orders support for JADC2 enabling programme | Shephard

Peraton is supporting the MINC programme, which would help to enable JADC2.

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DARPA orders support for JADC2 enabling programme | Shephard

Peraton is supporting the MINC programme, which would help to enable JADC2.

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If true middleware, then a genuine revolution, but the article carefully doesnt express those specific terms. Lack of fast middleware is the biggest threat to the goals of JADC2, beside cyberthreats.

 

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Air Force Secretary Warns of China’s Burgeoning Nuclear Arsenal, Reveals B-21 Detail

Frank Kendall also criticized Congress for not allowing the Air Force to retire old, unneeded warplanes and questioned the need for hypersonic weapons.

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Kendall also criticized the Air Battle Management System, an Air Force component of the Pentagon’s connect-everything initiative called Joint Domain Command and Control.

“My early observation is that this program has not been adequately focused on achieving and fielding specific measurable improvements in operational outcomes,” he said during his speech. “To achieve effective change we must also keep our eye on the ball. For me that means focusing on the fielding of meaningful military capability into the hands of our operational users.”

 

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This Air Force Targeting AI Thought It Had a 90% Success Rate. It Was More Like 25%

Too little of the right kind of data can throw off target algorithms. But try telling the algorithm that.

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US Air Force’s First Software Chief Steps Down

Nicolas Chaillan, who led a Pentagon-wide DevSecOps effort, said he was leaving in part because of a lack of support from senior leaders.

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Army's IBCS passed F-35 sensor data to artillery system at Project Convergence 21 - Breaking Defense

Northrop Grumman's Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System demonstrated a crucial Joint All-Domain Command and Control capability as part of several future operational scenarios at Project Convergence 21.

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How lessons learned during Afghan withdrawal relate directly to JADC2 - Breaking Defense

The Afghanistan withdrawal and the consolidation of all in-country military networks to one base at Hamid Karzai International Airport illustrated unique challenges with direct applicability to Joint All Domain Command and Control and future Project Convergences.

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‘More (JADC2) Gaps Than We Can Cover:’ Lt. Gen. Crall - Breaking Defense

“We’re into the posture review, which is making its final rounds, which shows the gaps,” said Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, J6 director.

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Hicks Seeks To Unify Service Experiments With New ‘Raider’ Fund - Breaking Defense

A new Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) will help fund the services’ experiments, as long as they work together on joint concepts.

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DARPA successfully demonstrates, transitions advanced RF networking program

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 21, 2020 - A DARPA network technology program recently concluded field tests demonstrating novel software that bridges multiple disparate radio networks to enable communication between incompatible tactical ra

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translation is key if JADC2 is ever to work

 

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Creating cross-domain kill webs in real time

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 - Two DARPA-developed technologies - a novel decision aid for mission commanders and a rapid software integration tool - played a critical role in the recent Air Force demonstration of the Advanced Ba

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US Spy Chief Warns Government Is Classifying Too Much Data

As the amount of data soars, so does the burden of reviewing classified data for its eventual declassification.

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If JADc2 is to work the most amount data must be available to it's databases.

 

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Northrop Grumman and Kratos Demonstration Brings JADC2 Connectivity to Life

SAN DIEGO – Feb. 8, 2022 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) demonstrated open architecture communications capabilities that will help the Department of Defense (DOD) realize its vision of information advantage and decision superiority for Joint...

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Is the goal of JADC2 to connect sensors to shooters or should it be command and control? - Breaking Defense

C2 will be particularly important in scenarios where US forces are met with anti-access/area denial countermeasures potentially more suitable for autonomous aerial and ground systems.

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JAIC developing first-of-its-kind 'integration layer' for AI algorithms - Breaking Defense

"So if you don’t have an integration layer like that, then you have to go find all of the data sources yourself... This is something we don’t have yet in the department,” Lt. Gen. Michael Groen told Breaking Defense.

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Pentagon developing 'National Defense Science and Technology' strategy: Memo - Breaking Defense

Spearheaded by Heidi Shyu, the strategy will seek investments and concentrated efforts on 14 critical technology areas.

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Pentagon’s new data and AI office hits IOC milestone, gets $500M budget - Breaking Defense

The office of the chief digital and artificial intelligence will be responsible for scaling up data, analytics and AI to enable faster and better decision-making "from campaigning to conflict."

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Project Convergence: AIs vs. Uncertainty - Breaking Defense

“We demonstrated… that having that person in the loop is not a huge time sink,” AITF director Doug Matty told me. “By presenting the right information at the appropriate level of confidence, it actually accelerated the mission.”

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Cross-Domain Technologies Are the Key to JADC2

JADC2 aims to build a cross-service digital architecture that can enable rapid and precise data exchanges across domains in order to improve decision-making at the strategic, operational and tactical edges of war fighting.

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How JADC2 is improving nuclear command and control

The Pentagon’s effort to better connect sensor to shooter and shuttle data is inextricably linked with the high-stakes communication systems of nuclear warfare, and rightly so, the head of U.S. Strategic Command told Congress this week.

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Pentagon's JADC2 strategy: more questions than answers - Breaking Defense

The eight-page summary document essentially defines Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and sets out the ambitious goals for the program, but provides little insight into how the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military services actually are moving to make it work.

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Lockheed eyes Project Convergence after successful 5G expedition

“Our battle space is all connected,” said David Rohall with Lockheed Martin. “No longer just does a soldier talk to the soldier next to him, but the soldier is talking to the airmen who may be flying above.”

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Processes May Matter More Than Technology in ABMS Creation, Generals Say - Air Force Magazine

Leaders tasked with coordinating ABMS across the Department of the Air Force and the Space Force talked about the challenges they're facing.

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US Air Force seeks tech sweet spot for Advanced Battle Management System

“Those who have followed this ABMS journey, they’ve probably seen that it’s evolved over time as we learn more,” said Gen. CQ Brown, U.S. Air Force chief of staff.

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Raytheon demonstrates critical Joint All Domain Command and Control capability for US military

Andersen AFB, Guam (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 - During the Defense Department's Valiant Shield 22 exercise this month, Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, successfully demonstrated the ability to collect

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Lawmakers want clarity on JADC2 efforts: Who's getting what, when? - Breaking Defense

In its mark of the fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill, the House Armed Services Committee’s cyber, innovative technologies and information systems subcommittee says it wants to know what capabilities will be delivered to the warfighter, when they’ll be delivered and how much they’ll cost.

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Northrop Grumman Delivers First IBCS Engagement Operations Center Under Contract with Poland

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – July 20, 2022 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) delivered the first of six production Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) Engagement Operations Centers to the U.S. government under a contract for Poland’s WISLA program....

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At NetModX experiments, Army takes on contested communications - Breaking Defense

"NetModX is a great testbed for us to kind of understand how our investments are working out as they graduate from a lab setting and make adjustments as needed to be able to get the most value out of those investment areas that we have," Joseph Welch, director of the C5ISR Center, said.

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Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and the Future of National Security | Small Wars Journal

Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in AI and Machine Learning companies. The number of patents filed in 2021 is more than 30 times higher than in 2015 as companies and countries across the world have realized that AI and Machine Learning will be a major...

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They’re ‘all different’: Air Force adviser says services diverge on JADC2

“I’ve looked at all of the documentation associated with all three,” she said, referencing Project Convergence, Project Overmatch and the Advanced Battle Management System.

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Goodbye hoarding? Official sees increased data sharing at Pentagon

“I think what we’re seeing across the department is folks leaning into the need to share.”

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US Army to collaborate with SpaceLink on tactical communications network

The cooperative research and development agreement allows the organizations to share facilities, intellectual property and expertise to “elevate solutions for both the warfighter and industry,” the company said in a statement.

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US Army launching new campaign to more quickly field capabilities

The U.S. Army is gearing up for a first-ever integrated fires test campaign in fiscal 2023 that will hopefully make it easier and quicker for the service to validate and field capabilities.

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They’re ‘all different’: Air Force adviser says services diverge on JADC2

“I’ve looked at all of the documentation associated with all three,” she said, referencing Project Convergence, Project Overmatch and the Advanced Battle Management System.

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JADc2 will solve nothing it sounds like

 

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NRO, Air Force may co-fund future space-based ISR tech: Kendall - Breaking Defense

Amid lawmaker concerns about turf tussles, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and NRO Director Chris Scoloese have an "informal agreement" to "work cooperatively to address DoD's ISR needs from space."

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same sh different day..no change no consolidation

 

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Pentagon’s command and control concept needs work, Army official says

"Project Convergence 22 is the perfect, practical example of where we are coordinating laterally with our sister services," said Lt. Gen. John Morrison.

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Trouble with data and message formats, for instance, was one of the major takeaways from the event, Murray said. When leaders on the ground reached out to the Joint Staff to discuss the challenges with integrating the service’s common operating pictures, they sent a team to Yuma.

“So we’re hoping to see that in a future experiment, we can take whatever output the Joint Staff gives us with these new message formats, and then do the experiment again, and see if we can bridge the gap that we had,” Abadie said.

Folks have only been talking about this for 50yrs jeepers. Darpa recently was talking up a middleware solution.

JADC2 chair: 'I cringe' at reports saying services' efforts aren't aligned - Breaking Defense

"So JADC2 is large and we hear people wanting to understand what's in JADC2, what's not JADC2," Rear Adm. Susan BryerJoyner said. "If you accept my premise, my hypothesis, that it's about a different way to compete and fight, almost everything is JADC2."

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more corporate capture and "would be" corporate careerists.. again who should not be fired/releived as house cleaning is overdue..