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Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2)

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 37th Bomb Squadron and U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors assigned to the 90th Fighter Squadron fly in formation above U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships in the Pacific Ocean in support of Valiant Shield 2024, June 7, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Keegan Putman)

Joint force, international partners, contractors test command and control capabilities in Pacific exercise

Valiant Shield provided an opportunity for the Department of Defense and its partners to put interoperability and CJADC2 concepts to the test.
U.S., Coalition and Five Eye alliance partners experiment with Air Combat Command’s Tactical Operations Center-enabled Control Reporting Center during the Shadow Operations Center – Nellis’ Capstone event at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Dec. 8, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Keith Keel)

Air Force plans ‘sprint week’ to experiment with ABMS solutions from industry

The event will focus on different human-maching teaming solutions that can aid battle managers in quickly defeating targets.
U.S. Sailors, assigned to the Beachmaster Unit 1, and the Amphibious Construction Battalion, load and unload a Landing Craft Unit at Camp Pendleton, Calif. on Feb. 29, 2024. Project Convergence is a campaign of events to build trust in new technologies with Joint and Multinational partners. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gabriella Bruce-Larkin)

Data passed ‘at a magnitude never seen before’ at Army’s Project Convergence

The Army, joint services and multinational partners said they experimented with passing data at a scale never done previously during Project Convergence Capstone 4.
U.S. Navy Operations Specialist 1st Class Frederick Robinson, from Abbeville, Louisiana, stands tactical data coordinator (TDC) in the combat information center (CIC) during sea and anchor detail as the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) departs Azores, Portugal after a brief stop for fuel, October 5, 2023. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)

Navy develops blueprint for information environment systems

The Information Environment Ecosystem Blueprint outlines reference architecture for modernizing systems and networks.
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U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from the 199th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron fly over the Northern Territory during Exercise Talisman Sabre 23. Talisman Sabre enables the U.S. and Australia to exercise our combined capabilities to conduct high-end, multi-domain warfare, to build and affirm our military-to-military ties and interoperability, and strengthen our strategic partnerships. (Courtesy Photo by LAC Chris Tsakisiris)

More money for integration, less focus on platforms: Air Force officials preview themes of 2025 budget

“Integration is one of the things that has been a focus for [fiscal 2025] and will ramp up even more with our great power competition efforts in…
Members of the 56th Air and Space Communications Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam operate cyber systems using a Enhanced communications flyaway kit during the Global Information Dominance Experiment 3 and Architect Demonstration Evaluation 5 at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Michigan, July, 12, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Amy Picard)

Pentagon hopes to ring in new year with minimum viable capability for JADC2

The Department of Defense is gearing up to deliver a minimum viable capability for Combined Joint-All Domain Command and Control, by the end of 2023.
Master Sgt. Kyle Pearson (left), Headquarters Air Mobility Command expeditionary communications functional area manager, and Tech. Sgt. Kevin Koenig, 621st Contingency Response Support Squadron tactical radio communications section chief, provides communication from a Nomad GCS Tactical Control Vehicle at a simulated austere base during the Advanced Battle Management System exercise on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Sept. 1, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Cory D. Payne)

Pentagon eyeing ‘bridging’ solutions for JADC2

The Defense Department wants new capabilities for Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative.
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