Command and Control Directorate (C2D) Information Briefing

1. Command and Control Directorate (C2D)Information Briefing Mr. Kenneth GrippoATO ManagerCommunications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center Command and Control Directorate

2. Command and Control Directorate (C2D) MISSION:Enable quick transition of optimum capabilities to The Warfighter through research, development, integration and demonstration of technologies and capabilities, and through the unequaled support to our customers in all of our core mission areas- information and knowledge management; portable and mobile power; platform integration and prototyping; environmental control systems; and position and navigation. VISION:To be the organization of choice to the Army and the Defense community with unquestionable relevancy in all of our core mission areas.

3. XX Core Competencies • Army Power: • Power for the Dismounted Soldier ATO • Mounted/Dismounted Soldier Power ATO • Fuel Cell Hybrid Power Sources for the Soldier • Co-Gen Power System for TOCS • Man Portable Smart Battery Chargers • Power Management Technologies for the Soldier • Tactical Power Systems: 1-2kw power sources: Stirling Eng/Fuel Cells • Battle Command: • Information / Knowledge Management • TITAN ATO • Network Enabled C2 ATO • Network Enabled BC • C2 of Robotic Entities • Decision Support Software • Service Oriented Architecture • Intelligent Agents • Battle Command Planning/Execution • Managed Connectors • Tactical Battle Command for Unmanned Systems • Air/ground Collaboration Services for Unmanned Systems • International C2 experiments • Rapid Prototyping: • Design Prototypes • 3-D immersive prototypes • Build Prototypes/limited quantity requirements. • POS/NAV: • Assured POS/NAV • Network Assisted GPS • Dead Reckoning Device • RF Positioning/Ranging System • MEMS IMU • Enabling Technologies: • Language Translation • Speech Recognition • Visual Interfaces

4. 08-08-08 Tactical Information Technologies for Assured Network Operations (TITAN) • Purpose: • Develop, mature, and demonstrate modular tools and technologies that significantly improve the network planning and management of the tactical network • Develop, mature, and demonstrate security tools to protect mobile networks from attacks and allow information to be shared across security domains • Develop, mature, and demonstrate agent enhanced Battle Command (BC) tools to enable real time situational awareness andrelevant strategic and tactical battlefield information sharing • Products: • Automated Network Management (NM) Tools • Information Assurance (IA) Tools • Space/Strategic and Tactical Information Dissemination and Management (ID&M) Applications and COA development • Payoff: • Reduce manpower and network management configuration time • Share information across security domains while ensuring trust/confidence in information being sent to the Warfighter • Improve information sharing by providing relevant information from strategic to a tactical operational unit Schedule Task Name FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11 • Automated Network Management Tools • Mission to Policy Translation Engine • Integrated Fault/IA Correlation and Response System • Autonomous Adaptive Middleware • Information Assurance Tools • Software Cross Domain Services (CDS) • Automated Intrusion Detection Response (AIDR) • MANET Security Services • Strategic and Tactical ID&M Applications • Agent enhanced threat warning, space interoperability, situational awareness & Space COA development / coordination (VISTA) • Battle Command Support Services 5 6 4 4 5 6 4 5 6 5 6 4 5/6 6 4 5 6 4 5 6 3 5 6

5. 4 3 4 5 3 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 4 R.ARL.2009.05/Tactical Human Integration of Networked Knowledge Networked knowledge as force multiplier • Purpose: • Enhance warfighter cognitive performance for collaboration and decision making in a complex dynamic net-centric environment • Results: • Context specific cognitive networked knowledge requirements • Automated measures of cognitive processing and social networking for operations and training • Data aggregation and alert capabilities based on mission context • Guidelines for appropriate automation reliance • Payoff: • Improved information sharing and mission performance • More effective use of available information • Improved understanding and trust among distributed teams • Alignment of warfighter and system capabilities • Endorsements: • BCID, COL Nelson, 03/04/08 • GIO, Mr. Burkhardt, 03/27/08 • ARCIC, COL Bullimore, 05/08/08 • PEO C3T, BG Justice, 05/19/08 Schedule & Cost MILESTONES FY09 FY10 FY11 FY12 Knowledge requirements Automated net-centric measures Guidelines for automation reliance Key Evaluations: BCBL/CASEL/FFID Experiments: C4ISR OTM Data aggregation/alert capabilities

6. Tool Integration

7. CER.2009.03 / Collaborative Battlespace Reasoning & Awareness (COBRA) ATO-D • Purpose: • Develop and demonstrate multi-platform, cross community applications and software services • supporting the integration and synchronization of Intelligence (Intel), Operations (Ops) and Geospatial (Geo) functions • Products: • Multi-platform, cross-community applications and software services • Collaboration Services • Decision Support Software Products • Planning Support Services • Priority Information Requirements (PIR) Management Tools • Collection / Sensor Management Tools • Commercial/Joint Mapping Tool Kit (C/JMTK) Enhancements • Unified net-centric data strategies • Common architecture and framework across Intel/Ops/Geo communities • Payoff: • Faster, higher quality decision cycles and increased Battle Command Unification. Schedule & Cost 7

8. Development,Repositories, Configuration Mgmt, Quality Control PM ComponentDeveloper GIG Resources Army AppBuilder Army AppUser COmposable Software for Mission Integrated C2 (COSMIC) • Purpose: • Develop software tools and recommend supporting hardware to facilitate warfighter application composition in a secure, governed environment, to provide immediate software solutions to problems unanticipated by programs of record • Products: • Overarching architecture and framework • Graphical tools for assembling C2-related software solutions (Apps) • Governance tools that ensure reliability and security • Enhanced tools (e.g. MS Office extensions) to provide C2-specific functionality • Repository of components and Apps • Reference set of C2-related Apps • Payoff: • Warfighters empowered to find, create and share solutions to unanticipated problems in a managed environment • Transition plans:PM Battle Command; PM Biometrics Last updated: 09-Jun -09

9. Unmanned Systems C2 for Urban Terrain (U-SCOUT) • Purpose: Plan and manage large numbers of air and ground unmanned assets in the tactical domain over extended urban areas at scales beyond current unmanned asset inventories • Problem: Existing command and control technologies for unmanned systems are insufficient to address operations in a complex urban environmnet. Such missions will require robust temporal and spatial planning, allowing for concurrent operation and execution to multiple, teamed unmanned air and ground assets • Results: • Tactical Battle Command services – able to plan, deploy and manage unmand missions while maintaining network connectivity • Dynamic resource allocation tools – capable of handling tasking and re-tasking of a large number of unmanned assets • High resolution urban maneuver networks and weather effects models • Information & knowledge management tools to disseminate unmanned sensor data • Payoff: • More effective planning, execution, and coordination of unmanned systems in an urban environment • Improved operator efficiency through intelligent agents and decision aides • Enhanced ability to observe and collect information in an urban environment

10. SUMMARY CERDEC C2D is critical to providing technologies within our core mission areas—Battle Command, Portable and Mobile Power, Military Platform Integration and Prototyping, Environmental Control Systems, and Navigation—to The Warfighter as quickly as possible.