Law Enforcement Capabilities Project (LECP) - (Overwatch)
Abstract
Overwatch is a new capability development effort which seeks to leverage technology and new ideas to fill ground combat and interagency capability gaps. Notably, Overwatch will build on the ground work and past successes of Project Wolf Pack by continuing to maximize the utilization of capabilities and technologies developed and transitioned under that program. Within this framework, Overwatch will be the umbrella project containing multiple initiatives seeking to aggressively cultivate and leverage emerging technologies and concepts to counter the current and future challenges characteristic of the irregular warfare environment. Projects will be oriented towards increasing war fighter effectiveness on the battlefield and/or the development/enhancement of “whole of government” irregular warfare capability. Specifically, the capability development effort will focus on two lines of operation to guide the growth of timely, sustainable, and deployable solutions for identified and anticipated requirements inside the formal acquisition process. The first line of operation will involve examination of interagency capabilities by pursuing concept experimentation/ validation, interoperability enhancements and command and control development. The second line of operation will focus on ground, and ground combat, capabilities particularly command and control, force protection, situational awareness, and networked, cooperative engagement. The end-state for each line of operation will be practical solutions suitable for transition. These include completed operational assessments, equipment prototypes, or validated concepts which can be used to inform and drive formal procurement processes and/or policy decisions. Project Overwatch currently contains three subordinate projects: the Law Enforcement Capabilities Project, the Gunslinger Package for Advanced Convoy Security (GunPACS), and Interagency Border Security. •Law Enforcement Capabilities Project (LECP). The LECP project is a follow-on to the Transitional Law Enforcement (TLE) project initiated under Project Wolf Pack and has been incorporated into the Overwatch portfolio as opposed to a standalone project. Leaders in a variety of US Government organizations including the Department of Defense, Department of State, and Department of Justice recognize the need to capitalize on the unique advantages that law enforcement professionals, as a part of the broader rule of law system, contribute to improving outcomes in current and future contingency operations, from peacetime engagement through full scale combat. The Law Enforcement Capabilities Project will advance current thinking on the nature of, and need for, law enforcement capability across DoD, the Services and the interagency to support complex warfighting, conflict resolution, stabilization and reconstruction. The Law Enforcement Capabilities Project builds on the body of knowledge and interagency contacts developed during the TLE Project. This project will identify and describe specific capabilities relevant to enhancing military cooperation with law enforcement agencies and further improve the interagency cooperation initiated during TLE. The payoff will be the development of a series of tools to enhance the capabilities of military, law enforcement agencies and their mutual interaction. It will also identify specific (technological and organizational) capabilities to develop this further in future.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 9e70e60b8691704d74ff0aa0d25db6cd
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