Product Manager C4ISR On-The-Move Experimentation
Abstract
Product Manager C4ISR On-The-Move (PM C4ISR OTM) provides a relevant operational field experimentation venue for the purpose of assessing emerging technologies in a System-of- Systems (SoS) environment. Its charter includes the mitigation of risk for Future Force technologies and the acceleration of technology insertion into the Current Force to support Army transformation. The PM accomplishes this by integrating maturing tech base systems into a holistic SoS architecture, employing early prototypes of objective systems or surrogate and simulated systems as necessary. Technical experimentation and demonstration is then conducted at the component systems level, at the SoS level via scripted end-to-end operational threads, and through unscripted technical assessments involving Soldier role players. Additionally, the PM develops test methodologies, assessment metrics and automated data collection, reduction and analysis techniques to support this experimentation. PM C4ISR OTM is a Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) organization within the Communications- Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) at Fort Monmouth, NJ. This paper seeks to describe the facilities, capabilities and process that the PM employs to conduct its experimentation. Following that it reviews recent experimentation activities and their relevance to critical development and acquisition issues and provides selected results emerging from ongoing data analysis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA481767
Entities
People
- Michael Amabile
- Russell Langan
- William Utroska