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CSM Alan Hummel, the senior enlisted advisor for 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) 3rd Infantry Division (ID), uses the JBC-P system to navigate to his unit’s training, Jan. 22 at Camp Oliver, GA, during Vanguard Focus, a brigade-level training exercise. The Vanguard Brigade is the first unit in the Army to field the upgraded system, which evolved through Soldier feedback from its predecessor, FBCB2. (U.S. Army Photo by SGT Joshua Laidacker, 4th IBCT, 3rd ID, Public Affairs)
strategy—more frequent software releases to keep pace with emerging needs but with the azimuth check needed to course- correct along the way.
JBC-P is the foundation for the Mounted Computing Environ- ment (MCE), the common framework across the lower tactical network infrastructure. Built on top of the JBC-P product line, the Mounted Android Computing Environment (MACE) infrastructure will allow government and industry partners to build Android applications. Leveraging Android simplifies the development process, and provides the simplified, com- mon user experience that today’s tech-savvy Soldiers demand. While MACE is focused on MCE, the goal is for apps to be developed once, then be capable of running on MACE across multiple platforms: mounted and dismounted Android devices or as widgets in the command post. Apps running on multiple hardware platforms at multiple echelons—and across multiple networks—will provide access to the COP with a common look
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and feel to the user, regardless of operational environment or hardware.
With JBC-P and MACE, the Army will now have greater access to app developers. By encouraging innovation rather than asking industry to build to older systems, the Army will stay more closely aligned with current and future leading-edge technology capabilities—and with the Soldiers who continue to show the way.
LTC MICHAEL OLMSTEAD has been the product manager for JBC-P since 2013. He holds an M.S. in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in civil engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps and is Level III certified in program management and test and evaluation.
Army AL&T Magazine April–June 2015
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