The United States Marine Corps officially launched its effort to accelerate the military’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) modernization.
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Christopher Mahoney, assistant commandant, signed a memorandum of understanding in September 2025 to formally establish Project Dynamis, a cross-functional team working in partnership with the U.S. Navy’s Project Overmatch, according to a U.S. Marine Corps news release. The memorandum established a council of three-star leaders — lieutenant generals from the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps and vice admirals from the Navy — to govern the project, tasking it with presenting an initial plan and a charter for governance, organization, authorities and responsibilities within 30 days.
The U.S. military announced the CJADC2 effort in 2022. The goal is to integrate and share data across all components and warfighting domains with a network of sensors and weapons to enhance decision making in battle. Each branch of the military has its own program for building CJADC2: In addition to Project Dynamis and Project Overmatch, the U.S. Air Force established the Advanced Battle Management System; the U.S. Army, Project Convergence.
“The guiding ambition behind CJADC2 is a bundling of all U.S. and Allied sensors and shooters on an artificial intelligence-enabled network to enable faster decision-making on the battlefield,” according to a February 2025 U.S. Air Force news release.
Project Dynamis is aligned with the Marine Corps’ broader Force Design concept with a specific focus on developing end-to-end, joint interoperable capabilities that enable Marines to act as the forward element of the joint force — sensing, analyzing and communicating weapons quality data at the speed and scale of relevance, according to the news release.
“As Marines, our ability to aggregate, orchestrate, analyze and share fused data at machine speeds is a warfighting imperative,” said U.S. Marine Corps Col. Arlon Smith, Project Dynamis’ director. “It is central to our value proposition. Project Dynamis is our bid for success to realize that vision.”
Project Dynamis began its work in 2024 and helped orchestrate the Marine Corps’ enterprise-level contract with Maven Smart System, the military’s artificial intelligence tool designed to process imagery and full-motion video from drones using sensors and machine learning to modernize battlefield operations. Project Dynamis also was integral in the September 2025 deployments of a Marine Air-Ground Task Force Command and Control Prototype to the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment in Okinawa, Japan and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Camp Pendleton. The prototype integrated multiple existing fire support, C2 and other systems across domains into a single solution, allowing Marines to operate the traditional functions of a command operations center from one device, according to a Marine Corps news release.
“The Marine Corps has been moving fast to modernize for the future,” U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Jerry Carter, deputy commandant for information, said in the news release. “To outpace the threat, we realized we needed a dedicated cross-functional team laser focused on prioritizing and accelerating the deployment of advanced technologies to enable AI-powered decision advantage at the tactical edge. That’s what Project Dynamis does in partnership with the Navy’s Project Overmatch.”