The Battle Control Center: A Report from the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) '99

Abstract

The United States Air Force (USAF) is evaluating the next generation ground-based Command and Control (C2) equipment. As part of that effort the 133d Air Control Squadron (ACS) Iowa Air National Guard (ANG) has been an active participant in the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) '99. The efforts of the ANG have included the development and testing of a prototype next generation C2 configuration, the Battle Control Center (BCC) and Remote Communications Cell (RCC) at JEFX. This paper discusses the transition of the existing Modular Control Equipment (MCE) to the BCC, the JEFX experiment, lessons learned and further development of state-of-the-art C2 visualization systems. This paper focuses on the traditional MCE tasks that were performed in the BCC. Additional topics such as time critical targeting (TCT) and real-time imagery were also demonstrated at JEFX '99, but were not addressed in this paper due to the time and space constraints.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA516025

Entities

People

  • David Ott
  • Gary R. George
  • Rebecca B. Brooks
  • Richard A. Breitbach

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Air National Guard
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Guard
  • Targeting
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Time Sensitive Targets
  • United States
  • Virtual Reality
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites