JADC2 – a primer

In 2019, the Chiefs of Staff of the US military determined that C2 really had to adapt. The decision came after the publication if a report on Russian C2 and counter C2 capabilities: on that basis, the programme on Joint All Domain C2 was started. Currently, the US is spending between $1-2BN per year on it, having scoped it out and accelerated small contract awards with remarkable speed. The programme is progressing rapidly through the experimentation phase but has shifted shape over 5 years – moving from a plan to enable the Joint Force Commander with a long screwdriver to something that enables a more dynamic and rapid kill chain. As Rafael Lopez tells us, it may still suffer from “Principle Agent Problems”, but the future looks pretty bright.