BALTIMORE — The Department of Defense’s Artificial Intelligence Agency is reviving a series of global trials aimed at advancing a vision of seamless connectivity and coordination known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control.
Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) is back under the direction of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). This comes amid an explosion of public interest in AI and its potential to augment humans after months of hiatus. military or otherwise.
CDAO boss Craig Martell said on May 3 that his team had taken the reins of the experiment to “figure out the right way to get after JADC2.” The office was previously responsible for creating the so-called data integration layer. It helps us collect information from different sources and present them in a unified way.
Speaking at the AFCEA TechNet Cyber Conference in Baltimore, Martel said: “Every experiment we do is not just ‘Did it work, guys?’ Thumbs up, thumbs down. We actually ask, ‘Is this fast?’ building metrics. did we do it right? Has this number increased? ”
The multi-billion dollar JADC2 initiative aims to connect far-flung forces – land, air, sea, space and cyber – to support faster decision-making on the battlefield. Such an approach is necessary to deal with China’s and Russia’s military advances, which are the biggest threats to national security, defense officials say.
The first test that has been resumed, the fifth overall, known as GIDE V, was held earlier this year and involved Pentagon officials, multiple combat commands and installations around the world.
Three iterations of GIDE VI through GIDE VIII are planned for 2023. Martel and his colleagues said they are working “with combatant commandoes on a fairly regular basis” aiming to remove barriers between regions.
“If you think about the Indo-Pacific battle, Africa Command might have the information they need. “So we think of this as a global thing…and asking these data flow questions, these workflow questions.”
Early GIDE was commanded by Union Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Force. These two instances of him are headed by Air Force General Glenn Van Hark.
GIDE I in December 2020 brought together Strategic Command, Transport Command, Southern Command, and Indo-Pacific Command. Also involved was the Undersecretary of Defense for Information and Security. GIDE II in March 2021 expanded participation and welcomed the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. This is one of four entities that CDAO encompasses.
Later versions incorporated Project Maven, which was designed to process images and full-motion video from drones and other surveillance assets and detect potential threats, and personnel from the Air Force’s Chief Architect’s Office. rice field.
In 2021, VanHerck said GIDE represents a “fundamental shift in how we use information and data” to stay ahead.
“The threats we face today and the pace of change in the geostrategic environment are moving at a very alarming rate,” he said at the time. “We have entered a new era of strategic competition, this time facing two equal nuclear-armed competitors who are competing with us on a daily basis.”
Colin Demarest is a reporter for C4ISRNET covering military networks, cyber and IT. Colin previously covered the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Agency (i.e. Cold War decontamination and nuclear weapons development) in a daily South Carolina newspaper. Colin is also an award-winning photographer.
