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Te deputy project manager for CCS kicked off the session, stating that the intent was to discuss system-concept options, to allow industry and the govern- ment to exchange information on previous accomplishments related to terrain shap- ing and the current work each contractor was doing, and to provide an opportu- nity for discussion and collaboration. Te intention was to have free and open discus- sion of program and technology risks. A lot of work had been done under govern- ment contracts since 2016, and it had to be shared with the entire audience of government and industry stakeholders so that leadership could get accurate feed- back to better inform government on how to proceed with a command-and-control architecture.
SHAPING THE FIELD
PM GLMR is developing the next-generation field of munitions for the CTSO program. Each munition field consists of three critical components: a bottom attack capabil- ity, a top attack capability and a command-and-control architecture to securely network the field back to Army mission command. (SOURCE: JPEO A&A)
munitions for the Close Terrain Shaping Obstacle (CTSO) program.
Because of the criticality and risk of inte- grating a command-and-control capability in terrain-shaping materiel solutions, the Project Manager for Close Combat Systems (PM CCS) engaged industry to assess industry approaches and solutions. PM GLMR is part of PM CCS, within the Joint Program Executive Office for Arma- ments and Ammunition (JPEO A&A, formerly PEO Ammunition). JPEO A&A is headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, the Joint Center of Excellence for Guns and Ammunition, in northern New Jersey.
Trough these industry engagements, PM GLMR has been conducting competitive prototyping activities for the next gener- ation of terrain-shaping obstacles since
2016. Tat effort culminated in a tech- nology roundup demonstration in January – March 2017. Recently the office under- took an exercise to narrow the focus of prototyping efforts to refine requirements for the command-and-control architecture and make informed decisions on where to continue investing in the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the program.
A LANDMARK FORUM CCS held the CTSO command-and- control forum on May 15 at Picatinny, with more than 100 government and industry stakeholders attending. Tis unusually frank and open forum provided the plat- form for industry to ask questions of not only government representatives, but also of other members of industry, both poten- tial collaborators and competitors.
In attendance at the forum was a govern- ment panel consisting of leadership as well as experts in communication electron- ics, encryption and sensors from JPEO A&A; the project manager for Position- ing, Navigation and Timing within the Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors; the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC); the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center; the U.S. Army Research Labora- tory; the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence; the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, and MITRE Corp., a federally funded research and development center.
Te industry panel consisted of leadership and technical teams from Fantastic Data; Northrop Grumman Mission Systems; Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (formerly Orbital Alliant Techsystems), which previously fielded legacy Family of Scatterable Mines; Textron Systems, which fielded the M7 Spider mine system and developed the follow-on XMX1100
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