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THE LAST MILE FIRST
Lieutenant Colonel Jim Dryburgh
Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals
Capability Branch New Zealand Defence Force
Thoughts
“Give me three good sections, add a solid headquarters and we got the makings of a great Platoon...
Give me three good platoons add a solid headquarters and we’ve got the makings of a great Company...
Provide the right level of organic support from Combat Support and Combat Service Support Arms and we have a Combined Arms Task Group……NZ’s LAND PLATFORM”
Sequence
• A2CBL Overview
• NZ Army Operations
• The Last Mile
• NZ Operating Context
• NZ C4 Enabling Concepts
• The Way Ahead
AC2BL – Role and Function
The role for the AC2BL is to develop People, build relationships , expose and evaluate technology and integrate chosen solutions - Enabling Army to:
-Provide focussed experimentation in Land C4 to support the introduction of a LAND C4 capability as part of the NZDF LAND C4ISR Project.
-Grow as an organisation
-Meet the C4ISR Environment of the future (FLOC)
-Assure the land component of NEC
• Currently an Informal Arrangement. – Product Selection. HP was engaged to help the Battle Lab select the
most appropriate components for experimentation in NZ.
– Knowledge Transfer. Essential for Battle Lab project delivery, and in the longer term to help bridge Army’s knowledge gap.
– Integration Assistance. HP assisted Army to integrate components and systems in order to provide an end-to-end solution.
• Capability Delivery.
– Evolutionary Acquisition. – Architectures. Creation of a deployable architecture within an enterprise
architecture. Use of other best practice, including project management, stakeholder engagement and governance.
– A Partnership for System Integration. A formal role for an NZ based system integrator to work alongside Army.
– A Programme Based Approach. Project teams formed for specific tasks.
Battle Lab Industry Engagement
Industry Partnership
Three Years of Experimentation
• Oct 2005 Start of basic research and winning the internal information campaign thus allocation of resources
• Jun 2006 CWID Internal Experiment
• Jun 2007 2nd CWID Internal Experiment
• Oct 2007 LAV Coy Assessment
• Jun 2008 ISR Experimentation
• Jun 2009 Tactical Area Networked Environment Demonstration
• Oct 2009 Tactical Area Networked Environment Bn Level Exercise
Validated Concepts through Failures and Successes
Operations Since 1994
• Of company size or smaller.
• Battalion deployed to East Timor in 1999 was the largest commitment
• Mounted and Dismounted Patrols mainly operating from FOBs
• Conducted in partnership (Coalition).
• focused on maintaining security, law and order, and providing humanitarian relief.
• Troop Rotation four to six months.
• Characterised by the need to support significant operations simultaneously in different countries.
• Joint effects delivered by coalition partners
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and operations in TEN countries around the world
Today the NZ Army is involved in FOURTEEN missions
The Last Mile
• We have defined the last mile as the provision of the Command and Control Support System to the Soldier, Platform and Command Post at Combat team and below.
The Last Mile (Why)
• NZ Army Developing Combat Team focus
• Operate Dispersed Platoons
• Greatest need
• Efficient and Effective of Resources (People and Finance)
• Tangible
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It is the level at which we Train, Operate and Fight and lays a platform for growth and diversity
The Last Mile
• People– Training, education and change ( Learning Organisation)– War fighters in the Job now – OC, XO, Pl & Sect Comd + Soldiers– Technical Personnel
• Information– Corporate + Tactical blending– Raw + Processed– Near and real-time sharing and collaboration.
• Networks
– Team, Area, Theatre and Strategic
“Launch & Learn”
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Future Land Operating Concept
Future Land Operating Concept
• Is designed to meet future challenges
• Recognises need to engage in close combat
• Realises technology and improved situational awareness enables better combat decision making
• Reflects NZ Army’s enduring ethos and values
• Network Enabled Army provides opportunities to meet the future intent (FLOC)
Deployment
Multi Role - Multi Mission
Operating Environment Outcomes
Cardinal Points
• Degrees of Arrangement
• Degrees of Capacity
• Degrees of Connectivity
• Degrees of Interoperability
Design Drivers
–Force projection and protection
–Coalition support for Situational Awareness .
–Operations are conducted in non-contiguous areas of operations with tailored, widely dispersed units that are mobile and lethal.
–Access to a Global Information environment.
–Need to reduce footprints through reach back.
–Enable the Soldier, Team and Commander to mass effects rather than forces.
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Common Services
• Voice
• Collaboration and Messaging
• Common Operating Picture
• Publish, Discover, Subscribe
• Productivity Tools
Information Flows and Categories
– Collaborative Planning Information– Situational Awareness Information– Intelligence Information– Multinational Information– Support information
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Emerging Concepts and Capabilities
• C4 Support Group
– Theatre Communications Access Node
– Forward Information Systems Team
– Network Operations Section (Including Computer Network Defence)
– Patrol Signaller (C4 Operator???)
• Network Enabled Elements
– Soldier
– Platform
– Command Post
• Key Concepts
– Tactical Area Networked Environment
– TATS ( Team, Area, Theatre Strategic) - Talk Zones
– Common Universal Bearer System
– EOIP
– Interoperability Touch Points
Tactical Area Network Environment
Platform Integration (Command Post, Platform, Soldier)
Tactical Area Networked Environment
Theatre Communications Access Node
Forward Information Systems Team
Common Universal Bearer System (CUBS)
Network Enabled Soldier
• Network-enabled soldier. Secure voice/data communications (Harris’s SPR) integrated with a rugged BMS for the dismounted soldier from Cobham (enabling Battle Lab's Blue Force Tracking (BFT) system). Augmented with Multiband Radios (117G/148)
• Network-enabled platforms. Light Armoured Vehicles (LAV) and Light Operational Vehicles (LOV) fitted with the Battle-Hawk Battle Management System (BMS) from Cobham Defence Communications, and high capacity data communications (HCDR & SPR) from Harris Corporation. LAV also Fitted with Harris 117G
Network Enabled Platforms
Command Post Pod
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DUTY OFFICER
PLOTTERPLOTTER
PRINTERPRINTER
FLAT PANEL ARRAY •COP•ISR
•CP LOG
FLAT PANEL ARRAY •COP•ISR
•CP LOG
•HCDR•VHF NETS•HF NETS
•HCDR•VHF NETS•HF NETS
MASTSMASTS
•UNIFIED VOICE SERVICES•UNIFIED VOICE SERVICES
MILSAT COMBGAN SAT
MILSAT COMBGAN SAT
CELL DUTY OFFRCELL DUTY OFFR
DC2S TERMINALDC2S TERMINAL
CP DUTY OFFRCP DUTY OFFR UNCLAS/RESTRICTED TERMINAL
UNCLAS/RESTRICTED TERMINAL
TANE TERMINAL(S)TANE TERMINAL(S)
CELL OPS CLK/SIGCELL OPS CLK/SIG
COALITION TERMINALCOALITION TERMINAL
DATA ACCESS BRICKDATA ACCESS BRICK
What We Are Doing
• Adopt a common information model
• Adopt an Architectural Approach
• Minimal Application Environment
• 60% of Something...
• Keep complexity at the core - Simplicity at the edge
• Simple things superbly
What we need to investigate
• Where are the interoperability touch points?
• What are the Information Exchange Requirement standards?
• How do we blend Business and Battle space?
• How do we protect?
Way Ahead Building Blocks
Battle lab– a glimpse of the future
Questions