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