Defense One:

Pentagon leaders want 2021 to be the year that their connect-everything effort—Joint All Domain Command and Control, or JADC2—really takes flight. In this vision of future warfare, everything on the battlefield is digitally linked, allowing artificially intelligent decision aides to help commanders find and hit targets before the enemy can adapt. But the effort faces major financial and logistical challenges.

Combatant commands and services are expanding on last year’s experiments, such as the Army’s Project Convergence. The initial draft of the Joint Warfighting Concept, a key document that will help the services develop doctrine and strategy around the JADC2 vision, is finished.

And for U.S. special operations forces, JADC2 is already something of a reality. U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is linking data across services to enable faster operations. The special operations community is enabling the JADC2 vision “just by the nature of our portfolio,” said Deborah Woods, program executive officer for SOCOM’s Command, Control, Communications, and Computers…



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