{"id":129894,"date":"2024-02-29T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=129894"},"modified":"2024-03-01T00:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:28:41","slug":"hicks-to-see-joint-combined-command-and-control-capabilities-in-action-during-project-convergence-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=129894","title":{"rendered":"Hicks to See Joint, Combined Command and Control Capabilities in Action During Project Convergence Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks is scheduled to travel to California next week where she will receive an in-depth look into the department’s advanced joint, all domain command and control, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said today.<\/p>\n

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Hicks departs on Sunday for a multiday visit to California to meet with service members and observe Project Convergence Capstone 4, an Army-led joint, multinational experiment taking place at Camp Pendleton and at Army’s National Training Center at\u00a0Fort Irwin.<\/p>\n

The experiment will showcase the Pentagon’s approach to delivering decision advantage to warfighters through Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, Ryder said, and give the deputy secretary a firsthand look at the capability in action. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Viewing this experimentation will enable Deputy Secretary Hicks to gain better insight into the challenges that impact [CJADC2] implementation across our joint force and the outcomes of experimentation exercises,”\u00a0he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

CJADC2 is the department’s approach to developing both material and non-material solutions to deliver information and decision advantage to commanders.<\/p>\n

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The department aims to apply the CJADC2 approach across all warfighting domains to give warfighters the edge in deterring and, as necessary, defeating adversaries anywhere throughout the globe.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ryder said Project Convergence will give warfighters the opportunity to experiment with technology at the operational level and further refine methods for synchronizing as a joint force.<\/p>\n

Hicks’ visit follows her announcement that the Pentagon has delivered its initial iteration of CJADC2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The initial version is a minimum viable capability combining software applications, data integration and cross-domain operational concepts designed to give commanders critical decision advantage.<\/p>\n

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“The minimum viable capability for CJADC2 is real and ready now,” Hicks said during the keynote address at Advantage DOD 2024: Defense Data and AI Symposium, a three-day event, earlier this month, hosted by the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office in Washington.<\/p>\n

Hicks noted CDAO’s critical role in getting the initial iteration across the finish line, after being challenged last summer to deliver a minimum viable capability in a matter of mere months.\u202f\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

The department intends to build on the success, Hicks said, to deliver the capability at scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Our goal is to be ahead of the curve, not chasing the curve,” she said. “CDAO will play a critical role in this next phase of our development, but so too will our operators and research, development and acquisition professionals throughout the Defense Department.”\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks is scheduled to travel to California next week where she will receive an in-depth look into the department’s advanced joint, all domain command and control, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said today. Hicks departs on Sunday for a multiday visit to California to meet with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":129896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129897,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129894\/revisions\/129897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}