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 (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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 593_0604805A_5_2040_PB_2018
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