Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)―in partnership with the Office of Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) Joint Fires Network (JFN) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)―launched the Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories (Open DAGIR) Challenge. The Open DAGIR Challenge is a call for vendors interested in submitting solutions in the contested logistics and sustainment space to support the Department's Combined Joint All Domain Command & Control (CJADC2) effort. The Challenge will transform the Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) by leveraging the entire industrial base to rapidly apply industry solutions to warfighter needs.
Hosted in the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace (TSM), the Open DAGIR Challenge will support and combine a highly innovative acquisition process with CJADC2. The initiative has the potential to impact every Combatant Command, and warfighters will witness industry solutions applied immediately to their problem sets in a common CJADC2 global integration decision platform. Warfighters will rapidly share feedback in an iterative fashion, while executing the mission.
The Open DAGIR Challenge was officially published today, and interested vendors can submit their proposals until Sept. 6 by uploading a 5-minute pitch video directly to the TSM announcement. Vendors selected for the Open DAGIR effort will have an opportunity to join the enterprise-level CJADC2 mission. To submit and learn more about the Open DAGIR Challenge, please click here.
Selected vendors will be onboarded via the DoD's new Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories (Open DAGIR) program. Open DAGIR establishes a multi-vendor ecosystem to enable industry and Government to integrate data platforms, development tools, services, and applications, while preserving the Government's data ownership and industry's intellectual property.
"We are thrilled about the recent adoption of Open DAGIR, which enables the Department to incentivize innovation by driving a competitive environment for data, analytics, and (AI) platforms, tools, and services," remarked Col Matthew "Nomad" Strohmeyer, GIDE Mission Commander.
About GIDE
GIDE 1-4 were facilitated by the Northern American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command to lead rapid innovation in DoD critical capabilities alongside other combatant commands. In 2023, GIDE transitioned to OSD/CDAO with GIDE 5, expanding collaboration across combatant commands and international partners.
About the CDAO
The CDAO became operational in June 2022 and is dedicated to integrating and optimizing artificial intelligence capabilities across the DoD. The office is responsible for accelerating the DoD's adoption of data, analytics, and AI, enabling the Department's digital infrastructure and policy adoption to deliver scalable AI-driven solutions for enterprise and joint use cases, safeguarding the nation against current and emerging threats.
