Naval Academy. Surface warfare. Joint Staff. US Army. DARPA. NATO. Every seat had a different view of the same gap.

The people working on C2 interoperability are not the problem. The operators, the engineers, the program managers, the coalition partners — they are talented, experienced, and working hard. The problem is that no one gave them a common information model to work from. Without one, every system solves its own piece correctly and the seams between them fail anyway.

That's not an integration problem. It's an architecture problem. It has an architecture solution. This is what thirty years of pattern recognition across every domain, every level of command, and every seat at the table looks like when it finally comes together.