ARMY AL&T
Photos, video, and text data captured via Increment 1 assets, such as the Class I Block 0 UAS, are fed to Soldiers in high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles with special Network Integration Kits. From there, this data and imagery can be sent to commanders in the Tactical Operations Center. (Photo by Al Matthews, Boeing Inc.)
Joint Experiments and Tests Working within this new strategy, PEO Integration’s Joint Interagency and Multinational Interoperability (JIMI) Office is continuing to work plans for joint service network experi- ments and demonstrations. “In today’s complex operational environment, we cannot develop the network alone. Throughout the incremental develop- ment process, we will continue to work with joint service and international partners to develop relevant experimen- tation exercises,” said Carrick. “These exercises will become the building blocks for how we will operate with the incremental network sets in joint opera- tional environments.”
During 2009, PEO Integration per- formed several software and hardware tests with joint services and inter- national partners. One of the most important was the joint experiment
Earth, Wind, and Fire (EWF)—a 3-year, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command-based, fully integrated, joint experimentation envi- ronment between the Army and U.S. Air Force (USAF). The experiment provides qualitative and quantitative data on airspace command and con- trol and fires deconfliction at brigade and battalion levels. Objectives met for this experiment include integrat- ing systems developed under the former Future Combat Systems program with the Fort Sill, OK, Battle Lab Fire Simulator. PEO Integration was able to employ and evaluate System-of-Systems
Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE) technologies. SOSCOE is middleware used on tactical systems that are often mobile with potentially degraded networking over an ad hoc network. The team also exercised infan- try BCT architectures and used Web services and collaboration SOSCOE tools as joint fires enablers.
Coupling Joint Programs and Enduring Partners
As lessons from past and current con- flicts show, the necessity for cooperation and interoperability includes endur- ing partners and allies. To this end,
Throughout the incremental development process, we will continue to work with joint service and international partners to develop relevant experimentation exercises.
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