JADC2 Development and Experimentation Activities
Abstract
Beginning in FY 2025 Joint All-Domain Command & Control (JADC2) related funding was re-aligned from PE 0604123D8Z to this PE in support of Congressional guidance. The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) supports the Department's initiatives to support decision advantage across the Joint Force and Combatant Command leadership. The CDAO JADC2 directorate is responsible for improving global accessibility and interoperability of warfighting data aligned to prioritized mission threads from the Joint Warfighting Concept. JADC2 has the following projects: 1. Joint Operating Systems (JOS) - Initial Data Integration Layer of software tools to access - Edge software deployment to U.S. Pacific Fleet classified network - Development of time-sensitive targeting application - Prototype Data Integration Layer - Provide improved access, security, and automated interfaces - Supporting Joint Fires Network (JFN) with Common Data Layer - Supporting transition of Assault Breaker II capabilities 2. Data Integration Layer (DIL): - Ingest: Identify data needs, develop data ingest and mature data producer capability as needed - Process, Transform, and Move: Develop data transformation and data routing services and support cross-domain data delivery - Share and Distribute: Identify and prioritize data consumer integrations, develop data export services, validate 3rd party APIs, and induction systems 3. Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE): The JADC2 projects in CDAO are developing resilient enterprise data services to accelerate adoption of modern JADC2 mission command applications, driven through globally integrated experimentation events, GIDE. The GIDE is to iteratively improve warfighting processes and increase connectivity of digital systems. The GIDE series provides globally integrated, cross-CCMD, and strategic-to-operational execution of JADC2 with focused venue for warfighters to design future capabilities with data-centric software tools. GIDE provides rapid iteration at-scale allowing the CDAO to test the effectiveness of the Data Integration Layer (DIL) while the Joint Staff and CCMDs test the effectiveness of evolving C2 concepts and capabilities. The GIDE experimentation campaign will continue its instrumentation to capture metrics and baseline performance across the Joint Force and measure interoperability and accuracy. 4. Mission Command Applications (MCAs): Develops software tools that digitized battle management C2 warfighting functions and serve as the primary interaction with the DIL and the data services it provided. This effort include aggregated required software licenses at CCMDs to manage government data rights, improve utilization, and encourage enterprise commonality. - Consolidating individual contracts into an ""enterprise"" model of software licensing to improve efficiency, standardize pricing, and ensure commonality across global users - Expanding software capabilities to additional combatant commands - Accelerating delivery of advanced AI/ML capabilities - Enabling creation of a software development pipeline
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 0604122D8Z_6_0400_PB_2025
- Change Summary Explanation
- Beginning in FY 2025 Joint All-Domain Command & Control (JADC2)-related funding was re-aligned from PE 0604123D8Z to this PE in support of Congressional guidance.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense