Command, Control, Communications Systems - Eng Dev

Abstract

This funding line is directly aligned to the Army Network Modernization Strategy LOE 2, Common Operating Environment. Efforts are aligned to support the Network-Cross Functional Team capability set approach to achieve the network modernization strategy. Joint Battle Command - Platform (JBC-P) supports the N-CFT Line Of Effort (LOE) 2 by utilizing: - Interoperable data, message, and waveforms - Integration with Joint Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) and strike capabilities - Sensors and applications that enable operations across domains The JBC-P 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 C5ISR Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) on evolving the BFT network. Systems engineering efforts continue to develop the evolution path of the BFT network, and the introduction of a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA). Using an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) construct, those efforts are intended to inform a BFT-3 full and open solicitation Request for Prototype Proposal (RPP) to industry in FY 2021. FY 2022 funding supports the BFT-3 standard transceiver and encryption device development contracts, and systems engineering efforts to continue prototype development for BFT-3. Support will include the integration of the BFT modular waveform and line of sight waveform on the transceiver, integration of the transceiver and encryption device to each mounted platform, interoperability with the BFT-2 Satellite Network Control Center (SNCC) and Satellite Ground Station (SGS), and upgrade of the Waveform/Network Virtualization for the BFT network to support the new modular waveform and line of sight waveform. A Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Critical Design Review (CDR) will also be conducted for the standard transceiver and encryption device development. JBC-P RDT&E resources are used to improve JBC-P hardware, specifically the transceiver and encryption device, enhancing network performance and resiliency; while Mounted Computing Environment (MCE) RDT&E is used to improve and add software applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0604805A_5_2040_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Configuration Management
  • Contracts
  • Engineering
  • Ground Stations
  • Line Of Sight
  • Open System Architecture
  • Performance Tests
  • Procurement
  • Program Management
  • Satellite Networks
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

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

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