February 18, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Marines aim to be CJACD2 ‘fast follower’ with Dynamis Series of C2 experiments
“What we don’t want to do is what we’ve always done in the past: siloed programs, by silo services,” Col. Arlon Smith, director of Project Dynamis, told Breaking Defense.
WEST 2026 — The Marine Corps recently unveiled new details about its ongoing Dynamis Series, what a senior official called a new “technology accelerator sprint project” aimed at more quickly modernizing the Corps’ command and control architecture to play nicely with other those of other services. The series involves multiple “events of increasing complexity, and we’ve overlaid them with events have already taken place to take advantage of that opportunity,” Col. Arlon Smith, director of Project Dynamis, said in an interview on the sidelines of the annual WEST conference.
“What we don’t want to do is what we’ve always done in the past: siloed programs, by silo services. You build them, and then we all try in combat to figure out how they connect,” Smith said. “What we want to do is take advantage of the peace time we’re in, take advantage of the momentum we have … and build something that’s inherently joint, that’s going to ultimately prepare Marines for the battlefield we’re going to face.” Each event is dubbed a “serial,” with Serial 001 kicking off in December.