NEXT-GEN COMMAND POST


Additionally, On Board Vehicle Power modifies a standard vehicle transmission to enable the vehicle to generate electrical power for both internal vehicle use and for smaller CPs.


UNENCUMBERED


Soldiers from the 86th Expeditionary Signal Battalion evaluate the new CP 4G LTE/Wi-Fi system in May 2014 at NIE 14.2 on Fort Bliss, TX. 4G LTE/Wi-Fi will obviate the need for myriad cables inside the CP and yield a system with a smaller footprint, reduced strategic lift requirements and reduced time for setup and teardown. (U.S. Army photo by Amy Walker, PEO C3T)


Joint Staff and PEO Soldier’s Nett War- rior program office, PEO C3T broke the barriers that hindered secure wireless and 4G LTE access to military networks with an NSA encryption solution called Com- mercial Solutions for Classified, similar to the security software used for online shopping. To this, the team added a no- cost “special sauce” that enables it to work on military networks. With this solution, the Army has leveraged billions of dollars of commercial investment at no cost to the government.


LIGHTENING THE LOAD Virtualization is also supporting a leaner, more agile CP. It replaces hard- ware appliances such as call managers, security software and bandwidth man- agement tools with software, enabling the Army to improve network perfor- mance, simplify network operations and reduce SWaP requirements for command


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posts, shelters and vehicles. For example, through virtualization the new WIN-T End Of Life Technical Refresh effort enables the Army to reduce the number of required Increment 1 transit cases by one-third, shedding 1,000 over the next three years across the Army and reducing the weight of the remaining cases.


Te Army is also streamlining CPs from a power perspective with the use of tech- nologies


such as Intelligent Power, a


microgrid power generation system that uses a highly flexible, reconfigurable power architecture. Intelligent Power prevents overloads and grid collapse, reducing manpower requirements for grid operation and fuel consumption by 25-40 percent. It also reduces the num- ber of generators needed from 18 to four, greatly lightening the load on strategic lift aircraft.


MISSION COMMAND MEETS THE WEB During OIF and OEF, individual mis- sion command systems performed well and provided critical capabilities, but with multiple systems on multiple screens throughout the CP, the commander had to use a “swivel chair” approach when executing mission command. To achieve interoperability and collaboration, Sol- diers had to manually extract data from one system and physically re-enter it into another, which was time-consuming and opened up the potential for human error. Te infrastructure required to sup- port these separate systems also weighed down the CP.


In response to these limitations, and in line with the new AOC, the Army is transitioning stand-alone mission command systems to sustainment and replacing them with an integrated, Web- based environment that delivers those functions as user-friendly apps, merged with the common operating picture of the battlefield.


Te foundation for mission command on the Web is the Command Post Com- puting Environment (CP CE), which is unifying the CP by providing Soldiers and commanders with common views, shared data, shared maps and common services across the warfighting functions of fires, logistics, intelligence, airspace management and maneuver.


Critical to the Army’s new CP vision, CP CE also simplifies the back-end hardware and software infrastructures required to support mission command systems at


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