The Path to Effective CJADC2: True Interoperability over AI
Originally published in 2024; substantially revised in 2026 to deepen the analysis and incorporate additional sources.
CJADC2 is often described as a technical effort to connect sensors, data, networks, and decision-makers across domains. That description is accurate but incomplete. It encourages a familiar mistake: treating decision advantage as a product of moving more data into more algorithms at greater speed.
The harder problem is not whether an artificial-intelligence model can identify a pattern. It is whether a coalition can turn that pattern into coordinated action when its participants operate under different authorities, classifications, policies, vocabularies, systems, and risk tolerances.
The decisive architecture of CJADC2 is therefore not the AI layer. It is the interoperability of the human and organizational system around it.