Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration
Abstract
The Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence for the Warrior (C4IFTW) program evolved into the Department’s Global Information Grid (GIG) as a means to achieve information superiority. Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) provides focus and visibility into resolving joint, coalition, and national civil authority C4 interoperability issues and provides organizing principles, techniques, and procedures for achieving information superiority as envisioned by Joint Vision 2020. The GIG stresses interoperability and CWID leverages the rapid pace of C4 technology advancements. CWID is the Chairman’s annual event that enables the US combatant commands, national civil authorities, and international community to investigate command control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions that focus on relevant and timely objectives for enhancing coalition interoperability and exploring new partnerships. CWID is conducted in a simulated operational environment to provide context for warfighter and national civil authorities’ validation of those solutions. Interoperability Trials (ITs) are the activities used to address the core coalition and interagency interoperability objectives selected each year. ITs strive to address warfighter requirements and interoperability deficiencies. The selection of trials is dependent upon the annual overarching objectives, the host combatant command’s priorities, Coalition/State/Agency desires to partner in a proposed trial, interagency participation, and the desires of invited coalition participants. CWID is an integral component of the JV 2020 conceptual template.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- e67a74534ebea30898036af81860255e