Command, Control, Communications Systems - Eng Dev

Abstract

The Joint Battle Command - Platform (JBC-P) program is the cornerstone of Joint Forces Command and Control (C2) Situational Awareness (SA) and communications. JBC-P provides secure Blue Force Tracking (BFT) capability in Platforms and Command Posts, providing soldiers and commanders a map-based Common Operating Picture of the battlefield, as a result, reducing fratricide. PdM JBC-P, under PM Mission Command (MC) has partnered with the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center's (CERDEC) Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) on the BFT Network Evolving and eXtending Transport (NEXT) integrated planning team (IPT). This IPT has conducted a requirements analysis. Systems engineering studies/planning activities are underway to develop the evolution path of the BFT Network, focusing on 2025 and beyond. Funding was increased in both FY16 and FY18 to assist PdM JBC-P in its endeavor to fully replicate the operational BFT network; S&TCD is working on developing a model of the current BFT-2 waveform to test in the BFT portion of their Network Test Lab. This Test Lab provides the Government the ability to test proposed fixes, conduct regression testing of future Software and Firmware releases, and replicate any problems the system may experience without impacting the operational network. A potential Science and Technology (S&T) effort has been identified; research and development of an expeditionary JBC-P Network Services Gateway (NSG) capability which will fill the capability gap of connecting the Lower Tactical Internet (LTI) to the Beyond Line of Site (BLOS) BFT network in an expeditionary environment, when separated from any existing vehicular or Command Post (CP) NSG capability. This effort is currently being led by PdM JBC-P and could potentially develop into an S&T project in the next FY.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0604805A_5_2040_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2016 reprogramming provided additional development and testing of Blue Force Tracking 2 within the Joint Battle Command - Platform product. FY 2018 Funding was increased to assist PdM JBC-P in its endeavor to fully replicate the operational Blue Force Tracking network; development and test.
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • Networks
  • Procurement
  • Program Management
  • Satellite Communications
  • Satellite Networks
  • Situational Awareness
  • Software Development
  • System Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Waveforms

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites

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