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Trident Warrior 2005 - The Premier FORCEnet Sea Trial Event
By
Brad Poeltler and Dr. Shelley Gallup
CHIPS Magazine, July 2005
This fall, Nov. 28 - Dec. 10, the Naval Network
Warfare Command (NETWARCOM) takes FORCEnet to sea for the third in
a series of Trident Warrior events, when U.S. Second Fleet units
of the USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group and coalition
partners will participate off the coast of Virginia in Trident
Warrior 2005 (TW05).
Participants will include 2nd Fleet’s Commander,
Amphibious Squadron (COMPHIBRON) 4, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
(MEU), USS Wasp (LHD 1), USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), USS Nashville (LPD
13), USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41), USS Philippine Sea (CG 58), USS
Bulkeley (DDG 84) and USS Cole (DDG 67). Coalition units
participating from Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and New
Zealand will include the HMCS Montreal (FFH 336), HMCS Fredericton
(FFH 337), HMNZS (virtual), HMNZS Te Mana (F111) and HMS Liverpool
(D92).
Other commands supporting NETWARCOM and TW are:
• Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
(SPAWAR) – the TW engineer
• Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) – the TW lead
in data collection, analysis and TW05 findings
• Naval War College (NWC) – conducts the TW
wargame
• Marine Corps Concept Development Command (MCCDC)
– provides the Marine Corps lead for TW
• Naval Personnel Development Command (NPDC) –
provides the naval doctrine lead for TW.
While FORCEnet provides the command and control
(C2) component of Sea Power 21, TW05 will create an operating
environment to explore the functional concept for FORCEnet. The
Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Vern Clark, and the Commandant
of the Marine Corps, General Michael W. Hagee, signed and formally
issued a joint FORCEnet document titled "FORCEnet: A Functional
Concept for the 21st Century."
The overarching hypothesis of the FORCEnet
Functional Concept states "… that if all forces and organizations
down to the level of individual entities are interconnected in a
networked, collaborative command and control environment, then all
operations and activities can enjoy the benefits of
decentralization, including initiative, adaptability and increased
tempo, without sacrificing the coordination or unity of effort
typically associated with centralization."
The operational impact should be "… command and
control characterized by shorter decision cycles that allow
commanders to make and implement better decisions faster than any
enemy can tolerate…." The results will be units and platforms able
to adapt more quickly and effectively to changing circumstances
and the ability to self-synchronize in furtherance of the mission.
To understand the operational impact of FORCEnet
command and control concepts, C2 must be executed in a realistic
environment to assess, in quantitative and qualitative terms,
FORCEnet enabling technology and ways it is used through tactics,
techniques and procedures (TTPs).
Analysis of collected data provides insights
resulting in dedicated procurement and development decision
information required to produce "speed to capability" (S2C). Speed
to capability is the rapid fielding of improved FORCEnet C2
warfighting capabilities to the fleet with full supportability and
maintainability. It also includes continuous development of
supporting TTPs.
In today’s global war on terrorism with
responses ranging from large or small scale regional conflicts to
relief operations, there is a potential for the configuration of
an expeditionary strike group (ESG) or carrier strike group (CSG)
to include coalition partners pulled from their national regional
assets. So FORCEnet concepts must also provide continuity across
the coalition with a Combined Forces Maritime Component Commander
(CFMCC). NETWARCOM is partnering with 2nd Fleet to focus on
FORCEnet support of a CFMCC from the operational to tactical
level.
TW05 will focus on key enablers of FORCEnet
capability to make the CFMCC fully capable of creating coalitions
able to meet all challenges. Specific FORCEnet capabilities will
be advanced in the following areas.
• Naval Networks.
Optimizing communications bandwidth on naval networks for the
fleet and providing communications interoperability capability for
coalition forces are critical. Increasing bandwidth is a serious
challenge across a strike group and especially with coalition
partners. However, improving the efficient use of bandwidth can be
accomplished through technical and administrative means.
TW05 will explore a range of these options,
document them, and make them part of ESG and Combined Forces
Maritime Component Commander TTPs. There will also be specific
focus on the integration of enhanced coalition interoperable
doctrine and technology into the Combined Enterprise Regional
Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS).
• Cross Domain Solutions
(CDS). Cross Domain Solutions create a network-centric
capable strike group across U.S. and coalition forces. The
technical means to include and increase the capabilities of the
assigned staffs and ships from the coalition nations will be
included in TW05. Specifically, CDS will address multinational,
multilevel, multidomain and interoperability issues that involve
dynamic networks consisting of guards that support cross domain
transfer of information.
• Information
Management/Collaboration. This is essential to create and
manage a CFMCC information management plan that addresses
information management and processing between coalition units
brought together in an ESG. TW05 will also be used as an
opportunity to define Navy FORCEnet requirements for chat and
collaboration tools.
• Knowledge Management
(KM). Basic KM research begun in TW04 will continue in
TW05. While information management focuses on the connectivity and
flow of information, the KM focus of TW05 will be the definition
of the "actionable information" moving across the networks. These
knowledge flows may be documented, measured and used to improve
the content of information and information systems.
• Command and Control.
C2 decision tools are essential to synchronize planning and
resource management for assets across the strike group. CFMCC
operational planning tools and a common operating environment
(COE) that integrates access to data used in automatic generation
and dissemination of maritime task plan information will be
developed in TW05.
• Human System Integration
(HSI). HSI focuses on the integration of warfighters
engaged in automated information processing and decision-making
tasks. In TW05, HSI experts will document the information and
knowledge requirements a CFMCC needs in a global war on terrorism.
HSI focus will find the best methods to populate a CFMCC
decision-support system by filling in knowledge gaps with the
required information.
• Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR). Future
synchronization of ISR capabilities will be worked through
distributed ISR nodes, which, in turn, will support effects-based
operations in joint-coalition environments. TW05 will identify and
document interoperability and information exchange requirements
between Network-Centric Collaborative Targeting (NCCT) and
Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) which are used to provide
improved battlespace awareness. In addition, TW05 will be the
Navy’s first opportunity to work the Global Hawk Maritime Concept
of Operations (CONOPS) and TTPs to support intelligence
dissemination. Data from Global Hawk Maritime events in TW05 will
be used to determine a baseline for time, accuracy and quality of
intelligence dissemination.
• Naval Fires.
Automation through FORCEnet implementation of machine to machine
(M2M) technologies enables movement of targeting information
between aircraft and C2 nodes. This brings aviation assets into
the Navy’s fires process and provides the CFMCC with an increased
ability to apply force within the battlespace. As part of the
fires initiative in TW05, track and chat data will flow between
the CFMCC and coalition units enhancing targeting situational
awareness and potential tasking of targets.
• Information Operations (IO). Information Operations are conducted using a variety
of tools, all which need to be coordinated and synchronized. TW05
will further refine coordination and interoperability of
information operations tools to conduct synchronized IO campaign
mission planning for the CFMCC staff.
Findings and recommendations gathered from TW05
will be presented to the Sea Trial Executive Steering Group (STESG)
to enable Navy leadership to make informed decisions on the
current and future course for FORCEnet.
"Trident Warrior is essential to getting
concepts and capabilities to sea, trying them out in a realistic
environment, and learning from them what is useful and should be
implemented or advanced in a fast track," said Vice Adm. James
McArthur, commander of NETWARCOM.
The planning is already underway for TW06, which
is scheduled to take place in the Eastern Pacific June 2006.
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