The State of the DoD's CJADC2 Strategy

In the current global defense environment, militaries worldwide face evolving threats that constantly test strategic and operational strengths. The U.S. military, the largest in the world, is no stranger to foreign adversaries impeding its command and control capabilities. Due to these consistent threats, the US DoD views maintaining information and decision advantages as a top priority and has invested heavily in its CJADC2 strategy.

JADC2 is a DoD acronym that stands for Joint All-Domain Command and Control. In a 2022 summary of JADC2, the DoD describes the strategy as “the urgent need for a focused Departmental push on actions to empower our Joint Force Commanders with the capabilities needed to command the Joint Force across all warfighting domains and throughout the electromagnetic spectrum to deter, and, if necessary, defeat any adversary at any time and in any place around the globe.” This means a new approach to developing both material and non-material solutions to deliver information and decision advantage to commanders.

In 2024, JADC2 has evolved into combined JADC2, or CJADC2. The maturation into CJADC2 is intended to drive DoD organizations to operate in a globally and digitally integrated warfighting environment with allied nations such as the UK and Australia. In this report, we will analyze the latest updates on DoD CJADC2 efforts including:

• DoD releasing the initial iteration of a CJADC2 software platform
• The Indo-Pacific region's impact on CJADC2
• The latest Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE)

In the current global defense environment, militaries worldwide face evolving threats that constantly test strategic and operational strengths. The U.S. military, the largest in the world, is no stranger to foreign adversaries impeding its command and control capabilities. Due to these consistent threats, the US DoD views maintaining information and decision advantages as a top priority and has invested heavily in its CJADC2 strategy.