JADC2 Development and Experimentation Activities

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What it is

JADC2 Development and Experimentation Activities (0604122D8Z) is an OSD research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 3 projects.

What changed

-$3.52M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals

$359.1MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Total

$301.3MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$297.8MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

-$3.52MR-1 TOA · PB2026

Two official figures, one label— reconciled below

Fiscal Receipts uses P-1/R-1 workbook total obligation authority (TOA) as the headline figure sitewide. The workbook TOA includes budget rows (such as advance procurement) that the R-2/P-40 J-book program line excludes. How the two bases relate →

FY24 Actuals · $359.1M TOA − $21.0K J-book line = 359.1M (359.1 − 0.0 = 359.1)

Figures in the sentence are rounded for reading; the parenthesised arithmetic is the same subtraction in USD millions, at the precision where it closes.

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$359.1M
FY25	$301.3M
FY26	$297.8M

All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026

Decade view — P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition

3 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2024–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line is too short to show a direction. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
Series	FY24	FY25	FY26
Actuals	$359.1M
Enacted	–	$301.3M
Request	–	$222.9M	$297.8M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Mission — JADC2 Development and Experimentation Activities

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) mission is to accelerate DoD adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to enable decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. This includes improving CJADC2 in support of the Joint Warfighting Concept through four lines of effort: -Open DAGIR: The CDAO created the Open DAGIR acquisition approach to secure government data rights, ensure open application programming interfaces (APIs), and implement open systems best practices in the acquisition of commercial software. CDAO applies Open DAGIR to the procurement of government-owned/contractor-operated data stacks. This enables interoperability across data stacks, and allows third party application developers to build software that can access relevant mission data in and across those Joint interoperable data stacks. Open DAGIR is not a specific technical solution, but an acquisition approach CDAO applies to procurement of data, analytics, and AI capabilities across vendors. -Data Integration Layer (085): These efforts mature management of DoD operational data and deploy a tactical edge data mesh (EDM) to enable data integration among new and legacy systems. EDM is a resilient, interoperable data integration service connecting sensors, weapons, and other battlefield assets for enhanced situational awareness and coordination into a cloud environment. EDM leverages commercial software, a government-owned software development kit (SDK), and open application programming interfaces (APIs) to integrate government and vendor systems, facilitate tactical data sharing, and incorporate artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities at the edge. EDM supports multi-domain operations across echelons, including enhanced C2 and fires in contested environments by optimizing data exchange among Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) communication paths. -Mission Command Applications (668): This effort integrates data, analytics, and AI in support of the seven Joint warfighting functions leveraging a common government owned/contractor operated data stack that adheres to Open DAGIR principles. Requested funding purchases licenses for Combatant Command (CCMD) and Joint Staff access to Maven Smart System (MSS) on multiple networks, engineering support to integrate new data sources and digitize workflows, maintenance of a DevSecOps pipeline to allow third party vendors to develop and field applications on MSS, funding for those third party vendors to close CJADC2 gaps, and cloud compute costs needed to run applications and workflows. -Global Experimentation (669): The Global Information Dominance Experimentation (GIDE) series is an iterative, metrics-based approach to experimentation with Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capabilities and concepts. The experimentation series leverages CCMD and Service exercises, as well as smaller data integration sprints, to test new data integrations and digital workflows in the context of real mission use cases, on live networks, and with real data and users. Capabilities that prove successful in GIDE rapidly field to warfighters on the spot because they are software-based. GIDE workflows include cross-CCMD strategic and operational global integration, CCMD and Service workflows, and tactical-to-operational fires workflows in coordination with the Services. This line also supports funding to recruit, train, educate, and enable the DoD workforce to adopt digital CJADC2 capabilities, concepts, and workflows.

Mission — Data Integration Layer (DIL)

The DIL funding line contains efforts to mature management of DoD operational data and deploy a tactical edge data mesh (EDM) to enable data integration among new and legacy systems. EDM is a resilient, interoperable data integration service connecting sensors, weapons, and other battlefield assets for enhanced situational awareness and coordination into a cloud environment. EDM leverages commercial software, a government-owned software development kit (SDK), and open application programming interfaces (APIs) to integrate government and vendor systems, facilitate tactical data sharing, and incorporate artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities at the edge. EDM supports multi-domain operations across echelons, including enhanced C2 and fires in contested environments by optimizing data exchange among Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) communication paths.

Mission — Mission Command Applications

This effort integrates data, analytics, and AI in support of the seven Joint warfighting functions leveraging a common government owned/contractor operated data stack that adheres to Open DAGIR principles. Requested funding purchases licenses for Combatant Command (CCMD) and Joint Staff access to Maven Smart System (MSS) on multiple networks, engineering support to integrate new data sources and digitize workflows, maintenance of a DevSecOps pipeline to allow third party vendors to develop and field applications on MSS, funding for those third party vendors to close CJADC2 gaps, and cloud compute costs needed to run applications and workflows.

Mission — Global Experimentation (GIDE)

The Global Information Dominance Experimentation (GIDE) series is an iterative, metrics-based approach to experimentation with Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capabilities and concepts. The experimentation series leverages CCMD and Service exercises, as well as smaller data integration sprints called GIDE-Xs, to test new data integrations and digital workflows in the context of real mission use cases, on live networks, and with real data and users. Capabilities that prove successful in GIDE rapidly field to warfighters on the spot because they are software-based. GIDE workflows include cross-CCMD strategic and operational global integration, CCMD and Service workflows, and tactical-to-operational fires workflows in coordination with the Services.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)

Data Integration Layer (DIL) for CJADC2

The DIL funding line invests in EDM nodes, data integration with EDM, and data interoperability improvements.

Mission Command Applications

Requested funding purchases licenses for Combatant Command (CCMD) and Joint Staff access to Maven Smart System (MSS) on multiple networks, engineering support to integrate new data sources and digitize workflows, maintenance of a DevSecOps pipeline to allow third party vendors to develop and field applications on MSS, funding for those third party vendors to close CJADC2 gaps, and cloud compute costs needed to run applications and workflows.

Global Experimentation (GIDE)

Requested funding supports holding a Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) approximately every 90 days, plus smaller GIDE-X data integration sprints, to test new data, analytics, and AI capabilities in support of CJADC2 and in coordination with CCMD and Service experiments. Funding purchases engineering support for new data and application integration, planning and coordination of experiments, and metrics-based assessment of GIDE events.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY24 Actuals	$359.1M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY24 Actuals	$21.0K
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY25 Enacted	$301.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY25 Total	$301.3M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY26 Disc. Request	$297.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY26 Total	$297.8M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget Figures shows both.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

Project	All Prior Years	FY24 Actuals	FY25 Total	FY26 Base	FY26 Request
Program Element	$0	$21.0K	$301.3M	$297.8M	$297.8M
085: Data Integration Layer (DIL)	$0	$21.0K	$301.3M	$26.7M	$26.7M
668: Mission Command Applications	$0	$0	$0	$243.9M	$243.9M
669: Global Experimentation (GIDE)	$0	$0	$0	$27.2M	$27.2M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

21 mentions from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

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