{"id":50999,"date":"2022-09-13T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/09\/13\/reed-encouraged-by-jadc2-push-amid-questions-on-service-coordination\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:27:20","slug":"reed-encouraged-by-jadc2-push-amid-questions-on-service-coordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2022\/09\/13\/reed-encouraged-by-jadc2-push-amid-questions-on-service-coordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed \u2018encouraged\u2019 by JADC2 push amid questions on service coordination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said he is encouraged by the Department of Defense\u2019s push to align military networks and improve information-sharing between services, amid rising concern about Joint All-Domain Command and Control coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I was in the Army, the saying was: shoot, move and communicate. Now, I think it should be: communicate so that you can shoot and move,\u201d Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, said Sept. 7 at the Defense News Conference<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m encouraged by the department\u2019s efforts on Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, which would be a force multiplier in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate Armed Services Committee, in a draft of the national defense bill this year, recommended an additional $245 million for JADC2 and the creation of a related joint headquarters alongside U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, based in Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House in July passed its version of the bill, which included provisions for a review of JADC2 progress and costs<\/a>. The Senate has yet to pass its version. Reed said he\u2019s advocating for a vote this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JADC2 is meant to give the U.S. an advantage over technologically advanced adversaries, such as China and Russia, by ensuring battlefield information is quickly collected, analyzed and fed to the best positioned force across land, air, sea, space and cyber. Defense officials have painted the end product \u2014 a flexible and seamlessly connected military \u2014 as an ecosystem, not any one piece of hardware or technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA critical aspect of the new National Defense Strategy will be strengthening deterrence and crafting new operational concepts based on jointness, all-domain operations and experimentation, especially with regard to communication,\u201d Reed said at the conference<\/a>. \u201cUnderpinning the department\u2019s ability to transform the way the joint force fights in the coming decades will be its ability to manage and control data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t