Breakthrough Multi-Domain Attack Plan Signed: Joint All Domain Command & Control (JADC2)

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By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

Can fighter jets, drones, Navy-ships and ground-based weapons systems all receive, see and collaborate upon fast-incoming threat information and sensor-derived targeting all in real-time such as seconds or even milliseconds? The answer is yes. This reality, a long sought-after Pentagon ambition, is now breaking through to operational status.

Joint All Domain Command and Control Implementation Plan (JADC2)

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks has now signed a breakthrough Joint All Domain Command and Control Implementation Plan, a text which specifies a series of steps necessary to bring joint, multi-domain warfare attack and connectivity to paradigm-changing levels of high-speed functionality.

The respective military service elements or contributions to this joint effort are just as vital as the joint operational picture they help bring to fruition.

“This isn’t a single service, it’s not just one program office, it’s the entire DOD. So the — the vastness of this. We also have DOD efforts underway, as — as I’m sure most of you know — Project Overmatch, Project Convergence, ABMS (Advanced Battle Management System),” Lieutenant General Dennis Crall, Director, Command, Control, Communications And Computers/Cyber; Chief Information Officer, Joint Staff, told reporters in a JADC2 briefing, according to a Pentagon transcript.

The Pentagon’s Implementation Plan specifically calls for each of these respective service efforts to integrate and complement one another.