JADC2 Development and Experimentation Activities

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.

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