# National Security Digital Nervous System **Entity class:** Systems-level analytical metaphor ## Definition The **national security digital nervous system** is a metaphor for the federated institutions, networks, clouds, data platforms, identity repositories, analytic applications, command structures, and operational nodes through which the United States senses threats, integrates information, makes decisions, and acts. It is not the name of a single government system. ## Layered Model - [[wiki/National Counterterrorism Center|NCTC]] and [[wiki/Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment|TIDE]]: counterterrorism knowledge and identity. - [[wiki/Joint Terrorism Task Force|JTTFs]] and [[wiki/National Network of Fusion Centers|fusion centers]]: investigative and domestic distribution. - [[wiki/CJADC2|CJADC2]]: joint sensor-data-command architecture. - [[wiki/Department of Defense Information Network|DoDIN]] and [[wiki/Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability|JWCC]]: network, cloud, and edge substrate. - [[wiki/Open DAGIR|Open DAGIR]] and [[wiki/War Data Platform|WDP]]: data and application substrate. - [[wiki/Maven Smart System|Maven Smart System]]: operational AI and exploitation. - [[wiki/Regional Operational Convergence Node|regional nodes]]: operational concentration at places such as El Paso/Fort Bliss. ## Relationships - **technical connective architecture:** [[wiki/CJADC2|CJADC2]]. - **authority above the technology:** [[wiki/President of the United States|President]], [[wiki/Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]], [[wiki/Joint Staff|Joint Staff]], and [[wiki/Combatant Command|combatant commands]]. - **regional example:** [[wiki/El Paso AI-Compute and Military Modernization Corridor|El Paso–Fort Bliss corridor]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/El Paso AI-Compute Military Modernization and All-Threats Intelligence Cluster|El Paso AI-Compute, Military Modernization, and All-Threats Intelligence Cluster]] - [DoD — initial CJADC2 capability](https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3683482/hicks-announces-delivery-of-initial-cjadc2-capability/)