CJADC2

Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control — CJADC2 — is the US Department of Defense’s concept for stitching together every sensor and every shooter into one network. The ambition is to move data from a satellite, a drone, a ship, or a soldier to whoever can act on it across all five domains — land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace — with low latency. It is the evolution of the older Joint All-Domain Command and Control idea; the added “Combined” reflects the inclusion of coalition partners, so that allied forces can plug into the same picture. The framing came into general use across 2023 and 2024.

The effort reached a milestone in February 2024, when Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks declared that “the minimum viable capability for CJADC2 is real and ready now,” describing it as low-latency and highly reliable. Much of the work runs through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office , which leads CJADC2 and uses its roughly quarterly Global Information Dominance Experiments to build the capability out, alongside the Open DAGIR data ecosystem.

Two contractors anchor the technical foundation. Palantir supplies the Maven Smart System , the AI data-fusion and targeting layer adopted across combatant commands, under a contract that grew toward $1.3 billion. Anduril won a $100 million agreement in December 2024 to scale an “edge data mesh,” powered by its Lattice software, that distributes data resiliently at the tactical edge. The early scope spans five combatant commands, including Central, European, and Indo-Pacific commands. CJADC2 is less a single product than a moving target — a long-running attempt to make the Pentagon’s data flow as fast as a modern fight demands.