Army Science and Technology for Homeland Security Report 2: C4ISR (2004) / Chapter Skim
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5 Potential for Collaboration Between the Army and the Department of Homeland Security
5 Potential for Collaboration Between the Army and the Department of Homeland Security
Pages 93-106
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for the Future Force and emergency responder requirements. Additionally, it suggests how to facilitate collaboration between the Army and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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There is also an interesting parallel between the possibilities presented here and the approach represented by the Foreign Military Sales Program or the Foreign Internal Defense Program long used by the military to encourage interoperability with allies and friends. Leveraged Collaboration Leveraged collaboration makes sense when one major user or developer is driving the process and another would like to leverage the ongoing efforts to reduce the cost or speed up its own product development.
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Table 5-1 indicates how technologies planned to meet Future Force requirements might address emergency responders' requirements in the following categories: · Communications; · Command, control, and computers; · Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; and · Other. In the middle of the table -- representing the area where the bridge must be established -- technological opportunities for collaboration to meet the needs of both communities are identified as leveraged and joint activities.
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and Objective Force Warrior (Army S&T) Reconnaissance Warfighter Physiological Monitoring System, part of Objective Force Warrior (Army S&T)
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POTENTIAL FOR COLLABORATION 97 Joint Development Emergency Responder Collaboration Requirements Joint interoperable communications between DOD and Networked communications local responders and data systems In-building communications and tracking global information grid Decision-support tools and algorithms Informed event management Information aggregation, fusion, and sorting Intelligence data dissemination to uncleared entities (soldiers or local responders) C4ISR interfaces for simulations Joint development of chemical/biological/nuclear sensors Common operational picture Smart sensor networks for urban environments Low-cost, disposable, networked, multiphenomenology sensors Urban UAVs and robotics Space, airborne, and terrestrial sensors continued
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A cooperative systems engineering approach will also help prevent the DHS from acquiring monolithic C4ISR systems that are not functionally compatible with military systems, that require access to huge databases, or that are combathardened with unnecessarily overdesigned, highly redundant hardware and software. In some cases, the DHS may be better served by using the Army's systems engineering expertise to integrate commercial off-the-shelf technologies into a more affordable, uniquely designed C4ISR system.
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Finally, as a consideration, the DHS must recognize that to realize the anticipated benefits of network-centric C4ISR systems, emergency responder organizations will now need to have within their organizations, or at least have access to, network system administrators and other information technology professionals. Increased logistics support will also require repair persons, repair parts, and batteries.
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technologies and systems, the U.S. Army should explore collaborative efforts to share pertinent systems engineering expertise with the Department of Homeland Security.
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· Experiments, the next level up from demonstrations, include models and simulations, as well as well-defined scenarios, repetitive events, and rig orous data collection efforts. · Technical tests focus on validating the technical performance of proto type (or limited production)
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The systems that must be put in place to meet the objectives of the DHS may be similar in complexity to those developed by the DOD, and the consequences of any failure of these systems will be similarly grave. The DHS will likely find it necessary to institute a process to ensure that its systems meet specified functional and technical criteria and are operationally capable.
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The U.S. Army, through the Department of Defense, should offer to assist the Department of Homeland Security in coordinating all-hazards training and exercise programs for emergency responders and to make relevant Army training facilities available for these exercises.
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While network-centric warfare is a fairly well developed concept that enhances military capabilities and requirements, the concept of NCO for emergency responders is not as mature. Various sources of funds, different levels of technical capabilities, varied requirements, and the lack of an approved national operational framework for emergency response make NCO more difficult to implement in the near term.
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The U.S. Army, primarily through the local Army National Guard structure, should assist emergency responders by working with the Department of Homeland Security to begin to develop a process for defining a set of tasks similar to the process underlying the Army's Mission Essential Task List.
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The committee is convinced that quick action on the part of the Army can provide beneficial C4ISR solutions to the Department of Homeland Security that will ensure a high level of interoperability between the emergency responders and the Army should our nation be forced to respond again to a catastrophic event on U.S. soil.
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