The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has concluded its ninth Global Information Dominance Experiment, or GIDE 9, delivering an initial version of the Pentagon’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, also known as CJADC2, Federal News Network reported Tuesday.
GIDE 9 demonstrated a new minimum viable capability for CJADC2 that enables a vendor-agnostic data integration layer designed to allow DOD components and international partners to access and exchange data that can be integrated into the military’s technology development pipeline.
“The data mesh services that we are trying to bring to bear allow us to be able to have data in common between the combatant commands so that one command doesn’t have their kind of program of record that they’re working with that has data in a stovepipe. They may have, for example, some logistics data or munitions data that is relative to that force that they have,” said Air Force Col. Matthew Strohmeyer, who leads the GIDE series.
During GIDE 9, Strohmeyer’s team tested and demonstrated data mesh services for the U.S. military’s joint operating system, which enables combatant commands to analyze data they use for decision-making.
In February, Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said DOD has delivered its initial iteration of the CJADC2 initiative representing a minimum viable capability combining live data integration, software applications, real-world networks and cross-domain operational concepts.
