KEEPING WATCH


A SYNCHRONIZED RESPONSE The C5ISR ONS was developed in sum- mer 2010. U.S. Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A), Task Force 236 from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the Army’s G-3/5/7 LandWarNet Direc- torate were flooded with ONSs from across Afghanistan’s regional commands. Some of the ONSs requested specific vendor solutions to various command and control (C2) and terrain-related challenges; others asked for broader or more general capabil- ities. These teams realized that fulfilling these requirements in a piecemeal fashion was likely to result in an expensive, subop- timal, and fractured architecture. Instead, the team developed the C5ISR ONS, which grouped related capabilities under a single, phased requirements document.


Initially,


the


acquisition approach satisfying these


for requirements was busi-


ness as usual. Once validated, each of the sub-capabilities in the C5ISR ONS was executed by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Tech- nology (ASAALT) project manager most capable of fulfilling that requirement.


This approach was beneficial in provid- ing a well-scoped, focused requirement to the team with the appropriate exper- tise in that area. However, this became a disadvantage because the requirements team had produced an integrated, mutu- ally supportive requirements document, while the acquisition team was pursu- ing an uncoordinated, material solution approach. The Aerial Layer Network


Extension capability required extensive integration of products across several project managers, but the acquisition team did not have a framework from which to achieve this.


The challenge was resolved in April 2011, when ASAALT issued a directive assign- ing the acquisition lead for C5ISR ONS execution to PEO IEW&S, with PEO Command, Control, cations – Tactical


(PEO C3T) as principal supporting PEO.


“Soldiers at the tactical edge of the battle- field are a deciding factor in defeating our adversaries. This synchronized response to the C5ISR Operational Needs State- ment will empower them through the


and Communi- the


AEROSTAT DETECTORS


Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors is reconfiguring host platforms to meet a C5ISR ONS. These include Persistent Threat Detection aerostats, with C5ISR radios and network solution sets. Here, a Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) is docked for general mainte- nance at Kandahar, Afghanistan, June 15, 2011. The PTDS provides force protection, counter-improvised explosive device detection, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. (Photo by SGT Ruth Pagan.)


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