FROM CANARY TO COMPUTER
IT TAKES A VILLAGE While JPEO-CBRND is making strides to ensure the digital competency of its workforce, it is impossible for the organization to cover the depth and breadth of CBRN defense moderniza- tion digital transformation alone. JPEO-CBRND actively seeks industry and academic support in the areas of data integration and digital transformation. One main avenue JPEO-CBRND employs to connect with potential partners is through its Joint Enterprise Technology Tool, or JETT.
PUTTING IT TO THE TEST
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Carlos Moranbonilla, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, creates tear gas during a comprehensive CBRN training held by Headquarters and Headquarters Battery in Landstuhl, Germany, on May 31, 2024. (Photo by Sgt. Yesenia Cadavid, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command)
Unlike the canary method, CSC2 does not stop at merely detecting and warning of the CBRN threat. It provides analy- sis, reporting and decision support that will help commanders quickly interpret and use available data, increasing confidence on the battlefield while protecting warfighters and keeping them in the fight.
CHAMPIONING DIGITAL LITERACY To keep capabilities such as CSC2 relevant and effective, it is crucial for the CBRN defense community to stay abreast of devel- oping technologies. To that end, JPEO-CBRND is leading the charge through a Digital Literacy Campaign, providing learning opportunities to its workforce so that practitioners can remain adaptable and capable of using and acquiring digital technolo- gies within their capabilities development pipeline. In turn, the workforce will benefit from increased accessibility to digital prod- ucts; enhanced virtual collaboration for continuity of operations; faster adoption and use of new digital technologies, processes and tools; and improved information sharing. Tis not only enables incremental—and thus, current—delivery of capabilities, but the capacity for those capabilities to be improved over time in the pursuit of agile design, development and delivery.
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JETT is a web-based engagement tool designed for industry, academia and laboratories to introduce their ideas and capabilities to JPEO-CBRND so they can accurately and effectively connect them with the appropriate decision-makers within the organi- zation. Tis might be an engineer with a product that could support portfolio integration, an artificial intelligence company with operational data science to support CBRN decision-making or a pharmaceutical developer who has a platform technology the JPEO-CBRND should know about no matter where they are in the development process. “We want to know what industry is pursuing and discover new ideas and technologies that could potentially help shape future capabilities for the joint force,” said Josh Israel, chief engineer and manager of the JETT program. “We are always looking to partner with those who want to make a difference and solve problems together.”
CONCLUSION CBRN defense has evolved vastly from a lone canary in a coal mine. Tanks to modernization and digital transformation, our warfighters are better informed, prepared and protected from CBRN threats more than ever. But the quest to protect our service members using an effective integrated layered CBRN defense is far from over. Just as canaries came to be seen as esteemed protectors during their time, digital transformation and CBRN defense modernization efforts ensure that our valued protectors—our nation’s warfighters—have the capabilities they need to fight and win in CBRN contested environments on a rapidly evolving battlefield.
For more information, refer to the JPEO-CBRND’s Digital Trans- formation Smart Book.
VASHELLE NINO is a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she supports strategic communication projects in support of the U.S. Army. She holds a B.A. in English from Texas A&M University-Central Texas.
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