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US Army aims for vehicle-based common operating environment
On the dynamic and complex battlefield, the common operating environment will streamline communications between soldiers in vehicles and higher headquarters, creating seamless interoperability between the computers, sensors and applications they use.
The COE is a set of computing technologies and standards. They are designed to enable secure and interoperable applications to be rapidly developed and executed across a variety of environments. The mounted computing environment, or CE, is one of six computing environments that support this goal.
“Through this Army-wide effort to collapse capabilities and integrate them into vehicles, Soldiers can communicate more seamlessly with upper echelons,” said Peter Dugan, a systems engineer with the Army’s Programme Executive Office for command, control and communications-tactical, known as PEO C3T.
Dugan explained PEO C3T’s role in leading the Mounted CE November 10, during a panel at MILCOM 2011, an annual international conference focused on military communications and networks held at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Mounted CE is a standard in which systems are set inside vehicles that have large amounts of processing power, but contain much less bandwidth than a tactical operations centre. “Its existence,” Dugan said, “will be seamless to the user.”
“The end-user should not be aware of the fact that there is a CE out there,” Dugan said. “The COE and the CE should allow developers to quickly build their applications onto this environment, and then they just need a good capability with a common map and common infrastructure,” he said.
Dugan outlined how the Mounted CE would bridge the computing divide. The application includes three classes of capabilities: the first involves transmitting small messages connected to a host; the second includes integrating more functionality and sharing data at the local level; and the third concerns adapting to the new environment.
Michael Anthony, chief of the Mission Command Division for the US Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Command and Control Directorate, known as C2D, said employing a common set of standards into a OE on the tactical network would enable users to “copy and paste” information across separate tactical applications.
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