Command, Control, Communications Systems - Eng Dev

Abstract

Joint Battle Command - Platform (JBC-P) supports the Army Network Modernization Strategy Line of Effort 1, Unified Network which includes: The development of a standards-based network architecture that unifies enterprise and deployed network capabilities and features a unified transport layer, network operations and other enabling functions that allows integration of disparate networks. The network provides resiliency through path diversity and dynamic routing to ensure tactical units can communicate in hostile environments. It fully incorporates cyber and electronic warfare capabilities that support the employment of the network as a weapon system. JBC-P also supports the Army Network Modernization Strategy Line of Effort 2, Common Operating Environment by utilizing: - Interoperable data, message, and waveforms - Integration with Joint C4ISR and strike capabilities - Sensors and applications that enable operations across domains The Joint Battle Command - Platform program is the cornerstone of Joint Forces Command and Control (C2) Situational Awareness (SA) and communications. JBC-P includes a network which enables the movement of data and 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), is collaborating with the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center's (CERDEC) Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) on evolving the BFT network. Systems engineering studies/planning activities are underway to develop the evolution path of the BFT network, and the introduction of a Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA). In addition, there are two RDT&E contractual efforts underway for FY 2018 (assess the feasibility of reusing existing BFT-2 transceivers (hardware) and replacing it third party or government owned waveforms), and FY 2019 (assess the feasibility of introducing BFT network resiliency components to existing BFT network). The goal is for all the R&D & experimentation efforts mentioned above, to inform a BFT-3 full and open solicitation (RFP) to industry FY 2020. JBC-P RDT&E resources are used to improve JBC-P hardware, network performance and add network resiliency while Mounted Computer Environment RDT&E is used to improve and add software applications. To better understand how potential changes to the BFT network would affect overall operations, funding was increased in both FY 2017 and FY 2018 to assist PdM JBC-P to fully model 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. FORSCOM users have identified a need for an expeditionary JBC-P capability to better connect the Lower Tactical Internet (LTI) to the BFT network when dismounted; there is an RDT&E contractual effort underway for FY 2019 to develop a reduced Size Weight and Power (SWaP) dismounted BFT transceiver. PdM JBC-P has partnered with CERDEC's Command, Power and Integration Directorate to develope this capability, along with new power solutions.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0604805A_5_2040_PB_2020
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Application Software
• Command And Control
• Computers
• Computing System Architectures
• Contracts
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineering
• Ground Stations
• Network Architecture
• Procurement
• Program Management
• Satellite Networks
• Situational Awareness
• Software Development
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Transport Protocols

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics
• Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
• Space