Today, Joint Forces Command began its Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID), a global annual event directed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and sponsored by USJFCOM, at USJFCOM’s Joint Systems Integration Center (JSIC). The demonstration looks at new technologies to ensure they are interoperable with both U.S. and allied militaries’ current technologies.
The command is testing approximately 20 technologies in Suffolk, Va. that could improve decision-making and operational flexibility on the battlefield and during crisis response on the home front.
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Sir/Ma’am,
One question and one comment:
1. Is there a deployment scenario or deployment-related technologies looked at?
2. There is a JFCOM-sponsored DOTMLPF Change Recommendation staffed to the C2 FCB chaired by the JFCOM J8 that seeks an enterprise solution to a coalition deployment planning capability gap– namely no ability to define life requirements in a JOPES-compatible format. We have MS word solutions– interactive not interopable. The solution is an approved ACTD currently in use at CENTCOM and PACOM, and our DCR seeks to field it on a strategic server concept– UNCLASS and coalition secure– with associated training, leadership, education and policy.
We brief the C2 FCB on 22 June at 1130.
Thanks.
LTC Chris Hart