With any reorganization, you have to quickly establish the organizational vision and set goals. For us, it is mission command modernization, which is an initiative to homogenize mission command capabilities across formations and echelons.
functions—but also more robust so that Soldiers don’t need to know everything about the systems in order to make them work together. Trough the Army’s CP CE and MCE, we have one develop- ment environment to create emerging technologies, allowing us to share expe- riences and knowledge.
We are also providing software develop- ment kits (SDKs) to our vendors and government developers so they can make the apps interoperable up front, and on the back end more cost-effective to inte- grate and easier to use. Tese SDKs are in place for both CP CE, which lever- ages the Ozone Widget Framework [an in-browser pub-sub event system that allows Web apps to share information] for apps in the command post, as well as for the MCE, which leverages the Android CE for apps inside tactical vehicles. CP CE and MCE will allow developers to provide new apps that ride on top of common software, which alle- viates the need for separate programs with unique operating systems and services.
While we can look to industry to assist in app, services and infrastructure development, it’s our responsibility to perform the lead system integrator role for all of our products within CP CE and MCE, to bring in all the capabilities and orchestrate all the moving pieces. We have to get back to the government taking a larger role in the integration— not so much in the technologies—as we
don’t need to re-create apps or build the hardware, which should be commercial. Let industry do that. But how it comes together to support the warfighting mis- sion is absolutely government’s role.
Q. What has been a good success story for you?
A. Tere have been several this past year, including fielding of improved mission command applications and hardware to dozens of Army units, supporting PM Warfighter
Information Network
– Tactical (WIN-T) in providing en- route mission planning capability to the XVIII Airborne Corps, and several engagements with other nations’ forces to improve coalition interoperability.
JBC-P, fielded to the first unit this year, delivering improved situational aware- ness, chat and graphics capability to the mounted Soldier. Soldiers say it is simple, intuitive and reliable, which is a testament to the fact that JBC-P was built over time, using direct
feedback
from Soldiers at the Network Integra- tion Evaluations (NIEs) and several user juries. In fielding JBC-P, we took the first step into COE. JBC-P is the basis of the MCE and will soon host an Android environment that will enable rapid inte- gration of applications on the more than 130,000 platforms in the field.
A final great news story is the convergence of operations, intelligence and network- based transport server architectures on
a single Tactical Server Infrastructure (TSI) as part of the CP CE effort. TSI will replace separate server stacks in the command post, reducing the burden on Soldiers and creating efficiencies in fielding, training and sustainment. Te TSI is undergoing development test and is expected to debut at NIE 16.2 next spring.
Q. Is there anything you would like to add in closing?
A. To encourage innovation, you have to empower your people and you have to create an organization in which your people have the resources and feel they can be effective. You give them the vision and direction and let them go. You check them along the way, but you let them come up with creative approaches and creative ideas. Challenge the status quo and give them the power to do that. Clearly I’m not claiming success in all of this: We are still a work in progress. But we’re heading in the right direction and making real strides as we charge forward with the Army’s goal to achieve mission command anywhere, anytime and on any device.
For more information, go to the PEO C3T website at
http://peoc3t.army.mil/c3t/ or the PM MC website at http://peoc3t.
army.mil/mc/; or contact the PEO C3T Public Affairs Office at 443-395-6489 or
usarmy.APG.peo-c3t.mbx.pao-peoc3t@
mail.mil.
MS. NANCY JONES-BONBREST is a staff writer for DSA Inc., providing con- tract support to PEO C3T. She holds a B.S. in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has covered the Army’s tactical network for several years,
including multiple testing events.
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