Conference Day One: Thursday, June 25, 2009

8:00 Welcome & Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Dr. Peter Brackett
Director of Advanced Technology
DRS Tactical Systems

8:15 Keynote Remarks: Command And Control Challenges And A Way Forward

• What are the fundamental C2 challenges in the 21st Century?
• What are the critical C2 capabilities needed for 21st Century missions?
• How can one measure progress?

Dr. David Alberts
Director of Research
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration) NII and the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO)

9:00 Blue Force Tracking Aviation

• Joint/coalition operations interoperability
• Interagency/intergovernmental operations interoperability
• Reduction of aviation situational awareness latency

Al Abejon
Director
FBCB2/BFT Aviation, (SFAE-C3T-FB-AV)

10:30Keynote: Delivering Enhanced Battlefield Command And Control At The US Army

GEN Peter Chiarelli, USA
Vice Chief of Staff
US Army

11:15 Joint Force Integration For C2 Systems

• Ensure common shared situational awareness
• Allow fused, precise, and actionable intelligence
• Integrate real time offensive and defensive fires

Robin Quinlan
Deputy Director Joint Forces Integration Office of the Secretary of Defense
Under Secretary of Defense (AT&L)

1:00 US Army Plans And Policy For Unified Battle Command

• Current opportunities and challenges to achieving Unified Battle Command
• Evolving BC capabilities needed in platform and dismounted capacities versus TOC requirements
• Plans and policies to support integration of FCS with battle command blue force tracking capabilities

Mike Eixenberger HQE
Deputy Director
LandWarNet/Battle Command HQDA, G-3/5/7

1:40 Net-Centric Combat Identification

• Why Follow A Net-Centric Approach To CID?
• Methods Demonstrated To Date...SWIFT CID Server In Air To Ground And Ground To Ground Modes
• Is There An Enterprise-Wide Combat ID Service In The Future?

James Limardo
Lead Systems Engineer For Combat Identification Systems
BAE Systems

2:20 Platform Battle Command Capability Requirements

• Identification of critical FBCB2 capability gaps
• Migration efforts towards JCR, JBC-P, and support for Unified Battle Command
• Overview of CID programs including the Joint Combat Identification Marking System
• [JCIMS] and Joint Cooperative Target Identification [JCTI]

Mike Kelley
Deputy TRADOC Capability Manager
Platform Battle Command and Combat ID

3:00 Battle Command Essential Capabilities Baseline

• Overview of defined essential battle command capabilities
• Pathway to meeting essential capability requirements
• Insights from battle command and related program offices

COL Roger McDonald, USA
TRADOC Capability Manager
Battle Command

4:10 PM Battle Keynote Keynote Remarks Command Perspective: Delivering Strategic Battle Command Systems To The US Army

• Battle Command development & delivery
• Technical vision and major release timelines
• Progress update on Strategic Battle Command systems including GCCS-A, DRRS-A, and NECC

LTC Kevin Leonard, USA
Product Manager, Strategic Battle Command
PEO C3T

4:50 PM Battle Keynote Keynote Remarks Command Perspective: Materiel Development And Fielding Of Tactical Battle Command Systems

• Using Sharepoint in theater as an operational tool
• Leveraging the first Quarterly Release (QR1) of CPOF in Theater as a rapid deployment of capability
• TBC suite of products update including MCS, BCCS, and CPOF

LTC Richard Hornstein, USA
Product Manager, Tactical Battle Command
PEO C3T

5:30 DARPA Initiatives: Leveraging JAGUAR (Joint Air/Ground Operations: Unified, AdaptiveReplanning) And Deep Green To Support Enhanced Command And Control

• Harnessing the power of automation to support continuous planning
• Preventing obsolescence by adapting to new munitions, sensors, tactics
• Using simulation to support ongoing military operations while they are being conducted

Dr. Todd Hughes
Program Manager
DARPA

6:10 End Of Conference Day 1

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