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intuitive, autonomous solutions to ensure overmatch for future combat missions.
Hands-free technologies specifically align with missions on-the- move—not just as a convenience, but for when Soldiers may be fighting for their lives.
CERDEC’s Single Multimodal Android Service for Human Computer Interaction (SMASH) application is a lightweight software solution that enables voice interaction with mission command capabilities. Tis entirely government-owned app gives mounted and dismounted Soldiers the ability to traverse treacherous environments and speak commands such as “display overlays” or “move map to the right” without looking away or putting down a weapon.
Te SMASH prototype is currently integrated into a Soldier- worn heads-up display developed within CERDEC’s Night Vision organization, and is under evaluation within the PEO for Soldier as a capability integrated into the Nett Warrior device.
Planned enhancements include speech-to-text capability, which would allow the Soldier to create a text message using his or her voice, and gesture- and eye-tracking interaction for envi- ronments not suitable for traditional mouse and keyboard peripherals.
DECISION-MAKING MADE QUICK CERDEC is also exploring predictive mission recommendations that automate the Army’s military decision-making process in the same way that TurboTax automates personal income tax prepa- ration. Te Automated Planning Framework prototype features a workflow that allows commanders and staff, co-located or dis- persed, to run through the decision-making process to analyze courses of action for maneuvers, logistics, fires, intelligence and other warfighting functions.
Commanders and staff can click on the steps and tasks with the process and receive graphics embedded with Army doctrinal data, a common frame of reference for military decision-mak- ing, to plan their actions. Without an automated capability, commanders must read through warning and operation orders
and manually map the information against graphics. Streamlin- ing these steps promises to speed up the commander’s decision cycle in planning the battle.
A partnership between CERDEC and PEO C3T eventually will bring the Automated Planning Framework out of the laboratory and into the field, where it will become an application that rides on the Command Post Computing Environment (CP CE) user interface. CP CE v3 will begin to provide an integrated mission command capability with a common look and feel across the command post, its platforms and echelons.
CONCLUSION A new adage regarding expeditionary forces says that “if you are anywhere for longer than 30 minutes, you are dead.”
For this reason, the modern command post will no longer be a post, or a complex, at all. Instead, it will encompass an array of flexible and expeditionary capabilities that allow the commander to command seamlessly from anywhere and make decisions at the speed of battle.
CERDEC will continue to develop expeditionary command post technology demonstrators that are operationally relevant and can be transitioned to Soldiers quickly. Achieving over- match on the battlefield will be complicated, but mobile and agile capabilities will help U.S. and coalition forces survive and dominate.
For more information, go to
www.cerdec.army.mil.
MS. LISA HEIDELBERG is a division chief with CERDEC’s Command, Power and Integration (CP&I) Directorate. She holds an M.S. in software engineering from Monmouth College and a B.S. in computer science from Te College of New Jersey. She is Level III certified in engineering and program management.
MS. KATHRYN BAILEY is the public communications adviser for Decision Engineering Inc., assigned to CERDEC’s CP&I Director- ate. She holds a B.A. in communications from the University of Maryland University College.
Large, fixed buildings and tents are giving way to flexible, intelligent and on-the-move command post capabilities.
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