CORPORAL
Abstract
The Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) validated the need for CORPORAL capabilities in FY 2008. The output of CORPORAL will be to provide ground-based, deployed Marines and Soldiers with the capability to take full advantage of tactically relevant sensor data, Command & Control (C2), and Electronic Attack (EA) in near real time. Specifically, Non-Traditional ISR (NTISR) ‘on-demand” to the ground unit; beyond Line of Sight connectivity maximizing opportunity for collaboration or synchronization; distributed operations demand faster responses and necessitate providing greater capability to existing aircraft rather than introducing new aircraft; greater joint service capacity from existing and planned EA assets and platforms. The efficiencies of the CORPORAL JCTD will be to decentralize the data to share openly across systems allowing airborne and ground-based tactical systems to be connected. The result is a greatly improved/ expanded communications range and availability so that critical data/information can be shared with other warfighters allowing collaboration and visibility to higher authorities. This will provide the ground forces with a beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) connectivity to ISR resources (traditional and non-traditional) that they do not have today. This JCTD will provide a collaborative distributed data and information exchange framework based on existing and planned warfighters’ communication waveforms. CORPORAL is a multi-year project sponsored by US Central Command with a planned transition by the Marine Corps in 2011.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 8ef922ad4847c629585677a8f0ae0345