Nicole Tovar’s Post

The Pentagon's Targeted Approach to CJADC2 is Paying Off - The United States Department of Defense has taken a more targeted approach to achieving Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) in recent years, and it's starting to yield results. - Rather than trying to fully interconnect all military services and domains, the Pentagon is addressing the most urgent operational problems through joint and service-level experimentation campaigns. - Initiatives like the Army's Project Convergence, the Navy's Project Overmatch, and the Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System are driving progress on key CJADC2 capabilities. - The DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's Global Information Dominance Experiment events also bring together the services, combatant commands, and international partners to test CJADC2 technologies. - This more targeted, bottom-up approach has highlighted critical sensor-to-shooter connections and improved interoperability, with tangible outcomes seen in recent exercises. - Experts say this pragmatic approach is more achievable than the initial broad vision for full interoperability across all domains and services. #CJADC2 #MilitaryTechnology #PentagonInnovation #JointExperimentation #ServiceInnovation #OperationalPriorities #SensorToShooter #DataInteroperability

The DoD's ambitious CJADC2 initiative, aimed at revolutionizing networked operations across all military branches, faces scrutiny from Rep. Rob Wittman, who urges a recalibration of its scope to ensure success. Wittman, Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, advocates for a focused approach that prioritizes foundational elements over expansive objectives, emphasizing the need for a robust data annotation system and enhanced bandwidth infrastructure. Opportunities for industry lie in developing scalable solutions that address CJADC2's foundational requirements. CRG advises industry leaders to focus on innovations in data annotation, synthetic data processing, and bandwidth expansion technologies crucial for modern ISR capabilities. Leveraging our expertise in navigating defense procurement and program management, CRG stands ready to support industry partners in securing and managing contracts effectively. Visit crgroupinc.com or reach out to us at contact@crgroupinc.com to learn more about how CRG can empower your organization. #IL - #VA - #DC - #Dubai, #UAE. #CRG #CJADC2 #DefenseInnovation #DataAnnotation #ISR #DoD #DIB #data #dataprocessing #dataannotation #bandwidth #govcon

“The Defense Reformation” treatise by Palantir Technologies CTO, Shyam Sankar, stresses the need for rapid, large-scale adoption of emerging technologies to maintain defense readiness. The U.S. must reimagine its defense structures to remain at the forefront of AI and autonomy. “As a nation, we are in an undeclared state of emergency,” Sankar writes. “America’s national security requires a robust industrial base, or it will lose the next war and plunge the world into darkness under authoritarian regimes.” The report argues that the DoD must transform its acquisition, modernization, and operational strategies to be more agile and adaptable, focusing on integrating cutting-edge tech to address evolving global threats and opportunities in national security. Click the link below to read more!

The Defense Department has been rethinking its pursuit of Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, to take a more targeted approach. It’s a shift from trying to connect everything to focusing on the most urgent operational problems, with a primary aim to connect forces across domains. At Fuse, we’re acutely aware that today’s warfighters are operating across domains and across platforms – and the real-time ability to communicate with each other is absolutely critical to mission success. It’s why we run warfighter workshops to capture user needs and preferences. It’s why we’re driven to create network capability that improves connections and the common operating picture across joint forces. And it’s why we’re side-by-side with the warfighters to design, develop, and test our systems in live demonstrations and into production. 💪 Whether the DOD starts at the top and works down or adopts a bottom-up approach through each military service’s own version of CJADC2, we’re proud to be working alongside the warfighters to advance reliable, real-time, tactical edge networking. For more on the DOD shift, read the insightful C4ISRNET article from reporter Courtney Albon. https://lnkd.in/dRayQWyG #DefenseTech #TacticalEdgeNetworking #JADC2 #CJADC2

In this episode, we dive into the groundbreaking partnership between Palantir and Microsoft, and how they are bringing enhanced analytics and AI services to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. https://lnkd.in/dt5f8zBJ

The Pentagon is about to launch one of the biggest tests yet of its JADC2, concept, this time seeking to bring multiple nations together to test how well the DoD can rapidly share very sensitive information with foreign militaries that aren’t traditional partners. The experiment will test new communications strategies and how well the Defense Department can adjust its procedures and policies for information sharing, a long-time obstacle to faster operations.  https://lnkd.in/dmdYymmy

Interesting article on Forbes on the US DoD challenge around accelerating R&D into capability that can be deployed to the warfighter. Highlights the disconnect between agencies such as DARPA with a technology push model, yet end warfighter capability is delivered through traditional acquisiton agencies. This challenge is not new or unique to Defence. For me we need a new model of rapid technology maturation with intimate involvement from end users from the get go taking a leaf out of the world of DevSecOps in software. #r&d #innovation https://lnkd.in/ex5FjuMR

Are the Department of Defense's investments in acquiring new technology, as well as its formation of #innovation organizations, creating an overreliance on #technology to compete with, exploit, and defeat advanced adversarial capabilities? Secondly, does this advancement in adversarial capability necessitate a need to change battlefield tactics at each echelon and level of war - especially in cases where technology is not available? The argument is that the defense industry's development of new tech towards DOD requirements is growing rapidly. This is great. But, this emphasis may be creating an expectation that capabilities will be developed (or have been acquired, but not yet fielded) to solve or address critical capability gaps. Rather than identifying cheaper, faster, non-technical innovation methods to compete and counter, we collectively, look to fill gaps with new tech. To expand on this further, have tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs); field expectations; or standard operating procedures (SOPs) been developed, updated, or omitted based on this new profile of warfare? Unlike the last 20+ years, where our innovation and changes to tactics were reactive based on the innovation of a nonmodern enemy, we are now taking a proactive approach in developing tech to compete in the next fight. However, as we have seen in Eastern Europe and in China’s growing defense industrial base, technology and tactics together have taken many forms - some new and others not - meaning preparation in these various aspects of warfare, with balance, will be critical. This shift, from fighting a war against a nonmodern yet innovative enemy, to a modern, innovative, and well funded #military is paramount. In some cases there will need to be a change in tactics, but in others a recognition of doctrine based tactics that should not change. But more importantly, an understanding that the employment of technology as an enabler, not a replacement. REIN was built to fuse this intersection of tech and tactics. Our first objective is to build awareness - as well as an appreciation - for this non-technical innovation gap complimented with the technical. Our second objective is to use talent from across the US and International defense communities to assess and educate warfighters on changes in tactics, the latest advances in warfare, and how tech is currently being employed on the battlefield. Our third objective is to firmly expand our mission across both US and international defense communities. If you’d like to learn more, get involved, provide a counter argument, or participate in creating a new kind of modern innovation ecosystem, send us a note. Our website will be completed within the next couple of weeks, but for now follow our LinkedIn page for more information. We’ll discuss the significance of the pic in our next post. Any guesses what film this from? #innovation #dod #defense #defensetech #warfare #modernwarfare

Are Ukrainians the first combatants of the software-defined era? So think several European experts at AFCEA International's #TechNetInternational in Brussels. Code-writing is now a soldier's skill, no longer reserved for engineers. How should training arm future soldiers with this skill that is changing battlefields from the bottom up? Heated discussion at #AFCEATNI this week. You can follow it in my latest piece: https://lnkd.in/eg_MD-YS

Maj. Gen. Mark Mitchum, provisional Commander of Integrated Capabilities Command (ICC) visited Air Force Global Strike Command’s (AFGSC) Warfare Innovation Center, known as The HIVE, Nov. 18 at the Cyber Innovation Center (CIC), Bossier City, Louisiana. The HIVE provides rapid concept experimentation, analysis, modeling and simulation, and high-fidelity visualization to generate decision quality data to command leadership. This capability is possible through cooperation between the HIVE, CIC and AFGSC Office of the Chief Scientist. This integration serves as a best practice model which could one day inspire efforts that ICC will be responsible for in their future mission to provide a unified demand signal for science, technology, and industry to prepare the Air Force to compete, deter and, if necessary, prevail against future adversaries.