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Kelly Johnson Joint All-Domain Innovation Center
The Kelly Johnson Joint All-Domain Innovation Center (KJJADIC) is dedicated to fostering a culture of Experimentation and Innovation within the Michigan National Guard. The KJJADIC focuses on supporting the Experimentation and Innovation ecosystem at home and expanding partnerships with our allies and partners in alignment with the National Defense Strategy strategic priorities. The culture and ecosystem of Experimentation and Innovation created by KJJADIC have a positive impact on all Michigan National Guard units and missions, enhancing the training and readiness of Airmen and Soldiers across the air, land, marine, space, and cyber operational domains.

The Michigan National Guard established the KJJADIC on September 11, 2020, leveraging its key strategic relationships and continuing to build successful Innovations with expanding partnerships within Michigan, intergovernmental agencies, the US Department of War (DoW), its allies, alliances, and international partners. The KJJADIC offers Professional Development opportunities, as well as professional-level certifications, through its Academic Industry Military-Hybrid Innovation (AIM-HI) program, in collaboration with the University of Michigan and the Defense Design Studio, in partnership with Duke University.

The KJJADIC promotes the State of Michigan as an Experimentation and Innovation Center of Excellence, showcasing our unique infrastructure and mission offerings (e.g., AI (artificial intelligence), autonomy and automation, command and control, CYBER, drone technologies, space, joint fires, range capacity, and airspace complex). The KJJADIC pursues new and future missions as part of its Experimentation and Innovation efforts. Two exciting 2025 KJJADIC partnerships leading the way in Experimentation and Innovation are with ORAMA Technologies' AI Mixed Reality Close Quarters Battle simulator training and Visto 360's Low Earth Orbit satellite capabilities and 3D Extended Reality applications.
 
Mission
To democratize creativity, Experimentation, and Innovation, to develop creative members of the Michigan National Guard, to build cohesive, diverse teams that out-think, out-innovate, and out-compete anyone in the world.
Goals
  • Promote collaboration of joint service and industry technologies
  • Support major exercise alignment with Michigan senior leader objectives
  • Solve problems and apply technology solutions in our innovation lab
  • Establish a Northern National Guard innovation center tied to the Hap Arnold Innovation Center in California
  • Enable service members to contribute in solving crucial needs
  • Leverage Michigan's unique industry and manufacturing capability in engineering, innovation, research and development, and testing
  • Collaborate and bridge key research labs focus on emerging technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomy, and entrepreneurship 
DoD Partnerships
  • Air Force Association Doolittle Leadership Center (Airmen Innovation Education)
  • AFWERX Joint Innovation Laboratory, Washington, DC (DoD Replicator Effort)
  • Air Force Research Labs, AFRL. (Experimentation)
  • Air Force Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (AI for Satellite Imagery)
  • Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve Command Test Center (Operationalizing Innovation)
  • DIU-Chicago, IL (Extended Reality for Multi-Capable Airmen)
  • Joint Staff-Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (Search and Rescue Command and Control)
  • Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, IN (Electronic Warfare and UAS Applications)
  • National Reconnaissance Office, Advanced Systems and Technology Office (AS&T) (Satellite Imagery and Wi-Fi Applications)
  • National Security Innovation Network (AIM-HI Certified Professional Innovator)
Industry Partnerships
  • Additive-at-Scale: Mobile Advanced Manufacturing Supporting Logistics Under Fire (at the Camp Grayling, CAGE Training Area)
  • ASX: Drone Tracking And Control Systems Enabling Autonomous Delivery (AFWERX SBIR Phase II)
  • BundlAR: Continued Support for AFWERX / NGB TACFI (AFWERX Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI)) Program for 3D VR Training.
  • Dark Flite: Advanced Drone Flight and Mobility Systems (AFWERX SBIR Phase II)
  • Duke University: AIM-HI Certified Professional Innovator Training
  • COMMiT Technologies: UAS Development for Medical and Contested Logistics Applications
  • Light Infantry Arms: Infra-red Based Force-on-Force Simulation
  • Microsoft Federal: AR for Agile Combat Employment / Multi-Capable Airmen
  • Orama Technologies: Mixed Reality Close Quarters Battle Training (AFWERX SBIR Phase II and US Marine Corps SBIR Phase II)
  • Pure Cipher: Noise-based Encryption Protocols (AFWERX SBIR Phase II)
  • Ripple 2: Waveless Semaphore Panel Relay System for Non-RF Communications at the Tactical Edge
  • Skypad MOS: Portable UAS Command and Control System Democratizing Flight Operations
  • Shadowtech Laboratories: Offers Safe House Operation CYBER Command and Control Applications (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA))
  • Tidal Flight: Seaplane UAS Operations for Personnel Recovery, in Conjunction with JPRA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA))
  • Torry Pines Logic: Tactical Light-wave / IR Communications Kits for Multi-Capable Airmen
  • Visto 360: Advanced AI Image Processing, Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellite Imagery (AFWERX Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI))