Joint Battle Command - Platform (JBC-P)

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 capability in Platforms and Command Posts, providing soldiers and commanders a map-based Common Operating Picture of the battlefield, as a result, reducing fratricide. JBC-P serves a primary role, and is the foundational element and core software platform of the Mounted Computing Environment (MCE), under the COE directive. The COE is a set of standardized computing technologies that facilitates secure and interoperable applications to be rapidly developed and executed across a variety of computing environments. The MCE, one of the six computing environments (CEs) formalized by the AAE under the COE directive, standardizes end-user environments while enabling streamlined deployment of new warfighting applications. MCE leverages JBC-P hardware and software to consolidate and integrate multiple warfighting systems in the Platform (mounted) environment. This integrated MCE, with its open standards, enhanced interoperability, and simplified end-user interface will speed delivery of new Mission Command applications to the warfighter while improving the effectiveness and value of current systems. FY2017 funding provides the means to continue to develop capabilities, product applications, and security enhancements to counter the emerging cyber threat, with a focus on the integration of MCE infrastructure developments and the interoperability of the JBC-P software with other CEs.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 593_0604805A_5_2040_PB_2017

Tags

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