USJFCOMLive

On Signal Magazine’s SignalScape blog, Maryann Lawlor gives her own view of the story MC2(AW) Carter wrote that we released earlier today. 

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With assistance from sailors from the Precomissioning Unit Gravely (DDG-107), USJFCOM’s JSIC is looking at how well the NGA Image Product Library operates with the Global Command and Control System (GCCS).

GCCS-Joint is a command, control, communications, computer, and intelligence (C4I) system, consisting of hardware, software, procedures, standards, and interfaces to provide worldwide connectivity for information resources.

Using the Gravely’s GCCS operators allows JSIC to assess how an operator uses the system in a real-world situation and resolve any interoperability issues with the system in real-time. In return, Gravely’s crew members can familiarize themselves with a completely up-to-date system similar to one being installed on their ship.

The four operators from the Gravely deemed the experience “very beneficial” and were looking forward to taking the knowledge they recieved at JSIC back to thier shipmates on the Gravely.

Over all this has been a win-win for both commands and hasn’t cost taxpayers a cent extra.

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Last month, we talked about a technology assessment which was looking at how to deliver cellular connectivity to troops on the battlefield.

We have an update on how things went as well as what made the assessment unique.

For those of you who are interested in attending please contact LCDR Rob Lyon, USJFCOM Media Operations Officer, at 836-6559 or by sending us an email by clicking here.

We hope these events will stress the importance of providing solutions to our deployed warfighters and the local support provided though our work, support of industry and a very supportive Hampton Roads community.

Thanks and hope to see you there.

MC2 Katrina Parker has just given us a great look inside of some work the Joint Systems Integration Center is doing with its Joint Systems Baseline Assessment. They are working with some cutting edge technology to ensure it can help commanders and their staffs make good decisions. An added benefit is it is directly supporting the work the command is doing with Empire Challenge, the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance demonstration we’ve been telling  you about that is going on at several sites around the world.

We asked a Marine Corps sergeant to write down his thoughts as the Coalition Warfighter Interoperability Demonstration enters its second week.

U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) continues its Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) at USJFCOM’s Joint Systems Integration Center (JSIC). The warfighters at CWID continue the demonstration and are starting to familiarize themselves with the operations and with each other.

Many people from different backgrounds and branches of service have come together at USJFCOM with one main objective in mind: to test the new technologies that address an information sharing capability.

One of these new technologies is the Collaboration in Command and Control Systems (CliCC), which provides the intelligence community with a collaborative method to gather, consolidate, and disseminate situational awareness in standardized and formatted messages.

Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Oscar A. Campos explains his duties as the CliCC operator, “My daily events consist of logging onto the Web portal, making sure updated intel reports are being posted and that the required users have access to this information. Once that is complete, I watch the flow of messages begin to post on the site.

“If a user is in need of specific information on a situation, I assist them in submitting an RFI [Request for Information] message to the C2 [command and control] specialist.”

Campos’ objective at CWID is to conduct critical analysis of the CliCC system such as discovering ways to make it more user-friendly.

Although there are over 20 trials being conducted here, the main focus has been on the CENTRIXS Cross Enclave Requirement (CCER), which can be explained as the military’s need for a cross-domain solution.

Plainly stated, it has become a necessity for information to be shared between domains and possibly between different classification levels. This need has fueled the vision of numerous vendors who have arrived at the CWID to have their products tested.

All of these proposed solutions have potential. It is interesting to see the ideas the vendors have on solutions for the sharing of information. As technology advances, information sharing capabilities also advance, a key part of why we do CWID.

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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