Officials at the Battle Command Battle Laboratory at Fort Leavenworth are hoping a series of seminars at the Command and General Staff College will help not only the Intermediate Level Education course students, but also the Army’s development of the Army’s communication and electronics research.
“We want to expose the students to new technologies,” said Brett Burland, BCBL’s science and technology branch chief. “At the same time, we want to get feedback from Soldiers with recent operational experience.”
Burland said the interaction and feedback between the students and members of the research and development community could lead to shorter acquisition timelines and enhanced acceptance of new equipment in the operational environment.
At the first technology seminar, hosted Sept. 1-2 at the Lewis and Clark Center, BCBL and the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, or CERDEC, developers discussed and demonstrated current projects that may soon find their way into the operational Army.
At a brown-bag presentation Sept. 2 in the Joint Pub area at the Lewis and Clark Center, BCBL and CERDEC developers sought feedback from ILE students on several projects.
One project, which may make it to the operational Army soon, is Universal Collaboration Bridge software, which allows different text chat systems to communicate with each other without making changes to existing chat servers and clients.
Edge programming and the development of enterprise solutions for hand-held devices to support milSuite, milBook, milBlog and milWiki applications were also discussed, and several students expressed concern about how fragile off-the-shelf hand-held devices and smart phones would survive in a tactical environment.
Also demonstrated were the Collaborative Battlespace Reasoning and Awareness, or COBRA, and the Command and Control Multitouch Enabled Technology, or COMET, systems, both of which developers hope will be of benefit to commanders and warfighters. Again, attendees freely provided their feedback to the developers.
Burland said BCBL hopes to continue the program at CGSC with seminars about every six months, or more often if requested.
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Officials at the Battle Command Battle Laboratory at Fort Leavenworth are hoping a series of seminars at the Command and General Staff College will help not only the Intermediate Level Education course students, but also the Army’s development of the Army’s communication and electronics research.
“We want to expose the students to new technologies,” said Brett Burland, BCBL’s science and technology branch chief. “At the same time, we want to get feedback from Soldiers with recent operational experience.”
Burland said the interaction and feedback between the students and members of the research and development community could lead to shorter acquisition timelines and enhanced acceptance of new equipment in the operational environment.
At the first technology seminar, hosted Sept. 1-2 at the Lewis and Clark Center, BCBL and the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, or CERDEC, developers discussed and demonstrated current projects that may soon find their way into the operational Army.
At a brown-bag presentation Sept. 2 in the Joint Pub area at the Lewis and Clark Center, BCBL and CERDEC developers sought feedback from ILE students on several projects.
One project, which may make it to the operational Army soon, is Universal Collaboration Bridge software, which allows different text chat systems to communicate with each other without making changes to existing chat servers and clients.
Edge programming and the development of enterprise solutions for hand-held devices to support milSuite, milBook, milBlog and milWiki applications were also discussed, and several students expressed concern about how fragile off-the-shelf hand-held devices and smart phones would survive in a tactical environment.
Also demonstrated were the Collaborative Battlespace Reasoning and Awareness, or COBRA, and the Command and Control Multitouch Enabled Technology, or COMET, systems, both of which developers hope will be of benefit to commanders and warfighters. Again, attendees freely provided their feedback to the developers.
Burland said BCBL hopes to continue the program at CGSC with seminars about every six months, or more often if requested.
