FY97 goals include demonstrating scaleability to support, in real time, 10,000 to 15,000 entities per simulation exercise; extending command forces (CFOR) to the battalion level or equivalent in all services; developing intelligent synthetic force platforms for rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft, ships, and individual combatants; implementing new standardized representations of synthetic environment databases; optimizing terrain representations for triangulated irregular networks and for large geographic regions; demonstrating key agile encryption systems for ATM networks and dynamic multicasting software and hardware to support thousands of multicast groups; and developing prototype scenario generation and distributed exercise control technologies. FY98 goals include demonstrating the STOW operational prototype in USACOM's Unified Endeavor 98-1 exercise, to include both Joint Task Force (JTF) training and mission rehearsal capabilities; and using parallel processor computers to demonstrate scaleability to support 50,000 entities per simulation exercise. During FY98 and FY99, STOW will provide system support and enhancements for USACOM joint training and mission rehearsal, and transition lessons learned from warfighter use of STOW technology, along with STOW technology improvements, to JSIMS and its service components.

Expected payoffs from the STOW 97 ACTD include new capabilities for mission rehearsal and JTF training; operational interfaces between the STOW synthetic battlespace and real-world C⁴I systems; reducing required exercise support personnel through the use of company- and battalion-level synthetic command entities and new exercise generation and initialization techniques.

The implementation phase (FY94-97) focused on readiness and deployment analysis, force employment planning, and force rehearsal and evaluation initiatives. During the support phase (FY97-98), this effort will undergo transition to the GCCS LES subsequent to a period of leave-behind maintenance support for readiness and deployment analysis, force employment planning, and force rehearsal and evaluation tools. Overall performance goals are to reduce CINC planning cycles from weeks to days or hours for crises and from several weeks to less than a week for major deployments. The warfighter will be afforded a set of user-defined, key automated planning functions providing rapid visibility to readiness; needed tools for force deployment; and employment planning, rehearsal, and evaluation.

By FY98, the program will develop and test procedures and related instrumentation for conducting and evaluating fire support training. The FY99 goal is to develop and evaluate guidelines for planning and conducting systematic, vertical (multisite, multiservice, multiechelon) after-action reviews and in-process training reviews. By FY00, the program will demonstrate methods for linking performance in joint training exercises to estimates of readiness, and for using performance and assessment data in cost-effectiveness evaluations to guide joint training policy and resources.

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Specific objectives are to provide a single, near-real-time, globally available view of operational logistics data from the strategic to the tactical level; improve operational awareness, collaborative logistics planning, monitoring, and analysis tools; provide tools to enable course of action (COA) assessment, execution monitoring, and dynamic replanning within the decision cycle window; build on existing decision support tools where applicable, and identify and develop new tools where none exist; develop tools to integrate the entire spectrum of information needs, including capturing unit-level source data through the use of automated identification technologies and seeing and using data to model and simulate the warfighter's view of the battlespace; support and evaluate initiatives using a multiple-level security strategy; and demonstrate initial data interoperability through a shared data environment in coordination with GCSS efforts. The following metrics will determine success: (1) demonstrating the commander's confidence in the logistics pipeline by reducing redundant requisitions and reorders to no more than 5%; (2) reducing the cost per operation by a minimum of 10%; and (3) establishing a baseline for measuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of data; on-time closure of units and delivery of shipments; and incidence of cargo loss and damage.

JL ACTD Phase III also provides operational commanders increased combat power through greater control of the logistics pipeline; develops and demonstrates a complete, end-to-end, advanced logistics system for the planning, execution, monitoring, and rapid replanning of a major force deployment from the continental U.S. (CONUS) to in-theater final destination and return to CONUS origins; develops and demonstrates fine-grained COA evaluation with access to supporting information and analyses linked to all other segments of the war plan; demonstrates total integrated logistics infrastructure requirements for dynamic replanning; demonstrates collaborative J3/J4 interoperability via integrated DII COE workstations to support planning and execution monitoring; and effects the transition of mature technology to the DARPA/DISA Joint Program Office for eventual fielding in an integrated GCCS/GCSS (DII COE).

The following metrics will be used to determine success: (1) increasing the readiness of primary weapon systems by a minimum of 10% with a goal of 20%; (2) demonstrating confidence in the logistics pipeline by decreasing redundant requisitions and reorders to no more than 5% with a goal of zero; (3) increasing the speed with which logistics COAs can be generated to a minimum of one in 4 hours with a goal of one in 1 hour; (4) reducing the dollar value of DoD-owned supply inventories by a minimum of 20% with a goal of 32%, and reducing the volume (cubic feet) of DoD-owned supply inventories by a minimum of 30% with a goal of 40%; (5) reducing the cost per operation by a goal of 25%; (6) increasing the logistics pipeline throughput capacity by a minimum of 100% with a goal of 200%; and (7) automatically capturing "leading indicator" data and forwarding a minimum of 25% of the data captured in 1 to 3 hours, with a goal of 75% in 1 to 3 hours, for use in predictive failure estimation and advanced logistics planning and support. Using the baseline developed during JL ACTD Phase II, this ACTD will establish metrics and aggressive goals for improving accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of data; unit closure; on-time delivery of cargo and personnel; and cargo and loss damage.

The FY97 goal is to refine complete throughput model analysis of seabasing sustainment systems. The program will conduct system engineering sensitivity analysis on emerging amphibious ship and seabase concepts to identify key system deficiencies, technological barriers, and technology insertion opportunities; establish a seabasing/MPF focal point for technical analysis support to the Joint Naval Expeditionary Warfare Engineering integrated product team (IPT) for improvement of expeditionary force interoperability with future amphibious (LPD-17), MPFE, and other joint sea/airlift programs; and develop onboard TACLOG (intra-seabase) and combat service support operations center (inter-seabase) C² architectures. By FY98, the program will identify and document key technologies for improving seabase operational efficiency and initiate rapid prototyping of identified systems for developmental testing and early user evaluation in FY98-00. In FY01, the goal is to accomplish the transition of (1) mature joint warfighter-ship interface technologies to amphibious/MPF ship platform PMs and (2) technologies for joint amphibious/expeditionary force tactical logistics and C² interoperability enhancements to Director C⁴I and Program Manager CSS, MARCORSYSCOM.

The Navy will be the lead service and the user sponsor for this ACTD. System development and planning will occur in FY97. Integration of the system aboard six Navy H-60 and six Army H-47 helicopters will be performed in FY98. System flight test and data collection will occur in FY99 and FY00. JAHUMS will additionally coordinate with the Navy H-53 Early Operational Assessment Program and Lead the Fleet Program and with the OSD Open Architecture Systems Task Force to ensure that the approach and technologies assessed can function within an open systems environment.

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