{"id":19640,"date":"2021-01-27T23:45:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/27\/getting-away-from-anything-goes-military-leaders-set-data-standards-for-joint-war-fighting\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:59:07","slug":"getting-away-from-anything-goes-military-leaders-set-data-standards-for-joint-war-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2021\/01\/27\/getting-away-from-anything-goes-military-leaders-set-data-standards-for-joint-war-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting away from \u2018anything goes\u2019: Military leaders set data standards for joint war fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. \u2014 Top military leaders signified a new level of cooperation on joint war fighting in an all-day meeting Jan. 26 to hash out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/show-reporter\/ausa\/2020\/10\/13\/before-joint-all-domain-operations-leaders-need-to-solve-data-problems-first\/\" target=_blank>data standards<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2020\/10\/08\/how-the-pentagons-data-strategy-enables-joint-all-domain-operations\/\" target=_blank>connect <\/a>the services\u2019 largely disparate projects to work together to compete against Russia and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the Army shared details with C4ISRNET Tuesday about a successful lab demonstration of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2020\/10\/05\/us-army-air-force-sign-agreement-to-develop-joint-all-domain-concept\/\" target=_blank>data exchange with the Air Force<\/a>, mirroring the type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2020\/10\/20\/the-army-and-air-force-are-finally-on-the-same-page-with-a-plan-to-connect-the-military-what-happens-next\/\" target=_blank>cross-communication<\/a> needed to achieve the Pentagon\u2019s goal to connect targeting information from any source to the best shooter from any service, an effort known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control. The Army allowed C4ISRNET to tour the facility\u2019s C5ISR Center experimental environments, set to become a central hub in integrating systems across services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is probably the first time that I have seen a level of cooperation and commitment to an outcome,\u201d Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, the CIO\/J-6 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told C4ISRNET in an interview at Aberdeen. \u201cSo in addition, this is simply the moving of these ideas, which I think are pretty novel, and moving them to a plan, where we have mission threads, places to start, and a genuine desire to challenge authorities, resources and processes if they don\u2019t fit the rapid nature, and the type and scope of work that we need to do to get this outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the Joint Chiefs leading the project, Crall has been vocal in calling for cooperation on JADC2, stating that old data governance models will not be successful as the services look to connect their networks. In future battles against technologically advanced adversaries, the services must rapidly exchange information to enable commanders to make quick decisions, such as putting fires on target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crall called the meeting, as <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2021\/01\/exclusive-do-or-die-jadc2-summit-to-crunch-common-data-standards\/\">reported<\/a> by Breaking Defense, to work toward agreement on common data management practices to ease the services\u2019 ability to share information, moving away from JADC2 efforts that have largely been \u201canything goes,\u201d which he called unsustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks-battlefield-tech\/2020\/11\/09\/data-standards-pose-a-sneaky-obstacle-to-joint-war-fighting\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6228533.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Data standards pose a sneaky obstacle to joint war fighting<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Data underpins the Pentagon&#039;s CJADC2 concept, but experts say cultural barriers stand in the way of the services sharing their data.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One step accomplished at the meeting was agreeing on a definition of a common data fabric, a task that Crall said seems \u201csimple, but it\u2019s complex.\u201d The people in the meeting who worked out that definition included officials from the Joint Chiefs, Pentagon chief data officer office, Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Information Systems Agency, combatant commands, Department of Homeland Security, and NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s the wording they settled on: The data fabric is \u201ca DoD federated data environment for sharing information through interfaces and services, to discover, understand and exchange data with partners across all domains, echelons and security levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to make JADC2 a reality, the Air Force\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/smr\/transition\/2021\/01\/12\/due-on-inauguration-day-an-acquisition-strategy-for-the-air-forces-next-gen-battle-management-system\/\" target=_blank>Advanced Battle Management System<\/a>, the Army\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2020\/10\/12\/at-project-convergence-the-us-army-experienced-success-and-failure-and-its-happy-about-both\/\" target=_blank>Project Convergence<\/a> and the Navy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/naval\/2020\/10\/14\/the-us-navys-manhattan-project-has-its-leader\/\" target=_blank>Project Overmatch<\/a> must be able to transfer data to each other, a task made impossible if the systems can\u2019t read or translate the data into formats that a system understands. While the services go about their own concepts, Crall recognizes that \u201cone size does not fit all\u201d but said that they need to be ready to come together sooner than later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday was really about setting that baseline of common level understanding and vernacular, particularly as it relates to all the way down to these mission threads and across the joint force,\u201d Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, the J-6 deputy director for Joint All-Domain Command and Control on the Joint Staff, told C4ISRNET, adding that the Defense Innovation Board would review the definition before it is finalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stuart Whitehead, the J-6 deputy director for cyber and command, control, communications and computers integration on the Joint Staff, said the stakeholders identified components of the data fabric definition that they will turn into objectives to direct subsequent work on JADC2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These components, according to the agenda viewed by C4ISRNET, are metadata tagging, common data interfaces, data access control, data security and data infrastructure. The agenda also said the overall lead for the common data fabric will be the Pentagon\u2019s chief data officer, Dave Spirk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s given us \u2026 a foundation, but it\u2019s also given us a springboard for what we\u2019re going to work next,\u201d Whitehead said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To enable that, the Joint Staff is working on joint war-fighting requirement documents, a strategy to build JADC2 and define common language for the services. The challenge the Pentagon faces is that the services fight in their unique domains, meaning they have their own needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere comes a point in time where if there\u2019s really no benefit, and only risk and expense as a result of those differences, then we\u2019ve got to collapse those sooner rather than later,\u201d Crall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whitehead pointed out that one of the biggest challenges to sharing data is the fact that requirements have changed so much over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re now talking about linking programs between multiple services in order to get a collective capability, [and] that is probably a situation that wasn\u2019t anticipated when a particular requirement was created, say 10 or 15 years ago,\u201d Whitehead said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parker noted that the stakeholders discussed reciprocity of systems, or accepting mature, rigorously tested solutions developed by other services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to get out of our own way sometimes to bring those types of things, and faster, to really bring about that interoperability,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force and Army have actively worked on plugging their capabilities together after formal staff talks last September between the services led to an agreement to share data and develop common sharing standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describing the experimental data use case, Portia Crowe, the chief data officer of the Army\u2019s Network Cross-Functional Team, told C4ISRNET that the Air Force\u2019s DataONE environment is sharing data with the Army\u2019s common data fabric, known as Rainmaker, which can then transfer that data into the Army\u2019s Command Post Computing Environment. The Army used an application programming interface to overcome the fact that the Army and Air Force don\u2019t use the same data message format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s work on a common data fabric, she noted, could be a key piece of joint war fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have a common data fabric that allows us to do a lot of that that we couldn\u2019t do before,\u201d Crowe said. \u201cSo instead of system to system, we can do one system to many. We can do one data library to many. 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