THE LEADING EDGE
Among the CS 14 upgrades to be evalu- ated at NIE 13.1 are the initial build of the Intelligence, Surveillance and Recon- naissance (ISR) Baseline and the progress of Ops-Intel Convergence, an Army ini- tiative fusing real-time intelligence with combat operational data to deliver a for the commander. (See related article, Page 12.) The event will also include an evaluation of mid-tier networking radios and waveforms to determine options for
acting as the higher headquarters for 2/1 AD and a virtual sister brigade. Just as it would in combat operations, the 101st commanded and coordinated across subordinate elements, which included 2/1 AD at White Sands, the 1st Sustain- ment Brigade at Fort Riley, KS, and a “simulation brigade” that was notionally
planners incorporated the role of higher headquarters into the evaluation. Another critical achievement with NIE 12.2 was the Army’s ability to employ all early phases of the Agile Process before the NIE began, including using new lab- oratories at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, to their full capability to conduct assessments and mitigate risk in advance.
LOOKING AHEAD: CAPABILITY SET 14
Those laboratories also set the stage for of CS 14. In the labs, engineers created a representative NIE architecture for the initial CS 14 baseline network. Through a combination of actual and simulated hardware and software, they recreated the end-to-end NIE network, which
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- ferent combinations of systems for each battalion within 2/1 AD. Through this Lab-Based Risk Reduction process, sys- tem functionality, interoperability, and threads were validated before sending systems to NIE 13.1.
Just as we did for NIE 12.2, Army engi- integration on the ground at Fort Bliss to decrease the burden on 2/1 AD once the unit begins conducting 13.1 opera- tions at White Sands. For example, we again built “Golden Vehicle” designs to - ent combinations of network equipment NIE lessons learned, such as system-of- systems training for Soldiers, are also
NIE 13.1 will conduct four program tests for record at White Sands, plus one more from a distributed site at Yuma Proving Ground, AZ, and will evaluate 23 SUEs. It will provide an early look at the CS 14 network baseline, building upon the CS 13 network architecture that was demonstrated at NIE 12.2.
More than a dozen companies with network and non-network systems are Army’s aggressive effort to seek mature technologies from both large and small software needs.
Bottom line: We expect NIE 13.1 to answer key questions and serve as a pre- liminary operational tryout for CS 14, yielding Soldier feedback and test data 14 validation at NIE 13.2 next spring. six BCTs beginning in FY14.
CONCLUSION
The Network Integration Evaluation and Capability Set Management construct is an enduring Army process, and NIE 13.1 will build on its proven success.
it—informing requirements, aligning programs of record, allowing for inte- gration of systems before deployment, and providing an avenue for indus- try to bring in mature capabilities for evaluation—will continue as we lead technology into the future.
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