Main Summit Day Two: Wednesday, June 30, 2010

7:30 Registration & Coffee

8:05 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:15 Developing Effective Command And Control Systems: Observations And Lessons From The Developmental Trenches

  • Summary of lessons and observations from a range of complex command and control developmental cases.
  • The impact of developer misconceptions and omissions on later operational effectiveness.
  • Commentary broken down into four categories for discussion: (1) humanautomation integration, (b) the continuing importance of user training and expertise, (c) test and evaluation challenges and shortcomings, and (d) integrating the lessons of experience

Dr. John K. Hawley
Engineering Psychologist
US Army Research Laboratory

9:00 C2 System Requirements To Enable Mission Command

  • The Army's move from Battle Command to Mission Command
  • C2 System essential capabilities required to support Mission Command
  • Aligning Program Requirements toward Joint and Coalition interoperability

COL Justin Gubler, USA
TRADOC Capability Manager
Battle Command

9:45 Networking Break

10:30 Joint Session: PM Battle Command Developmental Plans And Coalition C2 Capability Update

  • Update of C2 Systems Development
  • Lessons learned from Afghanistan
  • Coalition Capability Development

COL David Moore, USA
Project Manager, Battle Command
PEO C3T

MG Charles Cartwright USA (RET)
Vice President Programs
Raytheon

11:15 MARCORSYSCOM Perspective: Acquisition And Fielding Of Marine Corps C2 Systems

  • Development priorities for systems to improve ground force situational awareness
  • Progress on the integration of systems with Joint and Coalition Forces
  • Fielding timelines and delivery of modernized C2 systems to the battlefield

Col Peter Reddy, USMC
Director, Product Group 11
Marine Corps Systems Command

12:00 Lunch

1:00 DARPA Perspective: Anticipatory Planning For Battlefield Commanders Using “Deep Green”

  • Understanding the commander's plan to anticipate possible battlespace futures and evaluate courses of action during mission planning and execution
  • Enabling commanders and staff to plan more courses of action in less time, leading to increased mission effectiveness.

Dr. Todd Hughes
Program Manager
DARPA

1:45 DARPA Perspective: TIGR (Tactical Ground Reporting) System In Iraq And Afghanistan

  • Providing a media-rich, geospatial information management/ command and control system for company and below users
  • TIGR as a COIN tool
  • Effective use on outage-prone, bandwidth limited tactical network
  • Current enhancements for mobile access

Dr. Mari Maeda
Program Manager
DARPA

2:30 Networking Break

3:00 Aviation Support for Improved C2: US Army's Blue Force Tracking-Aviation System And Transition To Joint Battle Command-Platform For Aviation

  • Expanding C2 in aviation operations to include Joint and Coalition aviation assets
  • Linking networks to extend SA and C2 horizontally and vertically
  • Sharing survivability SA in the aviation environment

Al Abejon
Program Manager
Blue Force Tracking Aviation

3:45 Aviation Support for Improved C2: Marine Aviation Support For Improved Command And Control

  • Current MAGTF operations and the efficiency of integrated air/ground operations
  • MAGTF airspace and Joint Integration in support of distributed operations
  • Future programs and initiatives for improved airspace C2

4:30 End Of Main Summit

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