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Collaborating with emerging joint network architectures
and C4ISR services
Providing a transition pathway for basic and applied
research to the warfighter
Developing geospatial policies and procedures, including
military TTPs
Serving as geospatial validation/verification facility for the
Army’s geospatial information officer.
SUPPORTING TOOLS
To support the J-GES program, TEC constructed a laboratory
consisting of five reconfigurable enclaves that support
netcentric geospatial experiments. Enclaves can be “mixed
and matched” to support a variety of customers and experiments,
from counterintelligence/human intelligence to human
terrain (cultural) to current programs of record like the
Digital Topographic Support System. The J-GES laboratory
can provide state-of-the-art support to identify operational and
technical gaps and solutions with respect to the collection,
synchronization, management, dissemination and exploitation
of geospatial data and geoprocessing services.
To facilitate experiments with soldiers using a surrogate
command and control application, J-GES leverages the Commander’s
Support Environment (CSE), a state-of-the-art system
designed to monitor and control forward elements of the
Objective Force, resulting in reduced staffing requirements.
The CSE supports cross-functional, collaborative mission
planning and execution, providing a common operating picture
for enhanced, real-time situational awareness in a netenabled
environment. Users have the ability to determine how
their products might work in a command and control environment
that demonstrates the various areas of the intelligence
preparation of the battlefield process: intelligence, command,
fires and battlespace manager (maneuver).
Network issues are especially critical on the battlefield,
where the balance between volumes of geospatial data and limited
bandwidth is a constant challenge. Throughput directly
impacts the soldier’s ability to access and share geospatial
information. The use of network analysis software that emulates
the networks and performs network analysis will answer
key questions of network-related application performance.
Shunra is a commercial software package that emulates
networks by simulating packet loss, latency and bandwidth.
Soldiers at Fort Benning, Ga., participating in a J-GES experiment evaluating the BuckEye imagery for mission planning. [Photo courtesy of Army Topographic Engineering Center]
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