UNIQUE INSIGHT


FIGURE 2


Warn devices


Unattended ground sensors


Image sensors


attack Top


Bottom attack


Common safety Common C2 & SA Common crypto


Common radio/satellite communications Standard messages + User interface


Common control stations


KEY


C2: command and control SA: situational awareness


Cross-domain solution Army networks


Mission command C2 systems


TOUGH QUESTIONS The CTSO command-and-control forum put government and industry experts together to look for answers to questions about safety, such as safe passage for friendlies; security and encryption of data; long- and short-haul communication capabilities; acquisition and supportability. (SOURCE: JPEO A&A)


Scorpion: Intelligent Munitions System; and NAL Research Corp.


In preparation for the meeting, the govern- ment support team created 12 questions to help meeting facilitators spur conversa- tion. Tese critical questions encompassed the major focus areas of safety, such as safe passage for friendlies; security and encryption of data; long- and short-haul communication capabilities; acquisition, supportability and general topics. (See Figure 2.) Te questions were employed several times to force industry briefers to share more insight into their solutions.


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DIFFERENT PLAYERS, DIFFERENT APPROACHES With such a large list of players, it was not an easy task for PM GLMR leadership to coordinate and gain agreement from each organization or company to support and brief


their respective command-


and-control expertise. Nondisclosure agreements between potential competitors had to be created and signed. Additionally, the government prepared internally a list of topics that would be off-limits to protect industry’s intellectual property and main- tain trust from the industry participants. Tese off-limits topics were distributed


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among the key meeting facilitators so that discussion topics were known by all meet- ing attendees before the start. Doing this created a sense of mutual understanding between the government and indus- try that intellectual property would be protected and freer-flowing conversation would result.


Participants in the daylong forum from government and industry presented more than eight hours of briefing material to the audience. Tis consisted of technical details of the various industry approaches that were investigated,


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