{"id":9934,"date":"2018-03-02T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/02\/growing-mission-for-future-army-battle-command-system-accounts-for-delays\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:27:45","slug":"growing-mission-for-future-army-battle-command-system-accounts-for-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/c2-comms\/2018\/03\/02\/growing-mission-for-future-army-battle-command-system-accounts-for-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing mission for future Army battle command system accounts for delays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The brains of the U.S. Army\u2019s future Integrated Air and Missile Defense system<\/a> \u2014 the linchpin of a major overhaul of the service\u2019s AMD capability \u2014 has seen schedule slips to reach initial operational capability<\/a> by several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s unlikely the Army will be able to accelerate the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, or IBCS, program to get back to an earlier IOC date, despite recent successful soldier evaluations.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\u2019s OK, according to the Army\u2019s program executive officer for missiles and space, because the mission for IBCS has expanded far beyond what the service initially intended for the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[US Army anti-missile command system\u2019s initial capability delayed four years<\/a><\/i>]
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The Army originally planned for IBCS to be the command-and-control system for its future Integrated Air and Missile Defense, or IAMD, architecture. It would serve as the brains of the system, tying a radar, a launcher and its shooters together. The Army\u2019s IAMD system will replace its legacy, Raytheon-manufactured Patriot systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the Army plans to use IBCS to tie together other vital air and missile defense systems on the battlefield, including the Army\u2019s Indirect Fire Protection Capability, which is designed to defend against rockets, mortars and artillery as well as cruise missiles and unmanned aircraft systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army is \u201charnessing all the sensor information we can get together on an integrated fire-control network that has the speed of service to actually work against air threats whether those are ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, air-to-surface missiles, whatever those things are in the air, [unmanned aircraft systems], that are potentially hostile,\u201d Barry Pike said at the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s missile defense forum Feb. 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIBCS really is the heart and soul of Army air and missile defense modernization,\u201d he said, noting that it will be integrated with joint IAMD, the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps as well as the Missile Defense Agency\u2019s Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Aviation and Missile Command and its partners \u2013 both the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center and the Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space \u2013 met major milestones in 2017 in the development of the Multi-Mission Launcher. The Army is holding a competition for a second interceptor for the MML with a downselect to one vendor in FY19. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Defense News first reported last year that IBCS was showing a substantial delay after reviewing previous years\u2019 budget documents compared to the fiscal 2018 request. The documents showed the initial operational capability for the Army program was delayed by four years and would need an additional half-billion dollars across a five-year span beyond previous budget requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While IBCS was originally supposed to reach IOC in FY18, Pike confirmed IBCS is now scheduled to reach that milestone in FY22 \u201cwhere we bring out Patriot sensors, launchers, missiles, along with Sentinel radars, some other sensors and the Indirect Fire Protection Capability all together in one integrated architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pike said the Army will continue with testing to achieve that milestone, adding that the program has come a long way since a 2016 Limited User Test<\/a>, or LUT, identified software deficiencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[US Army anti-missile command system successful in more complex soldier test<\/a><\/i>]
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\u201cWe\u2019ve made a lot of progress in correcting those deficiencies, demonstrating those with soldiers operating the system, repeating a portion of the LUT that we did back in 2016 to demonstrate that we resolved those software issues,\u201d Pike said. \u201cWe\u2019ve also recently done some more live joint air operations with the Marine Corps and the Navy; we have more of that planned for later this year for the Air Force and other partners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resolving the software deficiencies hasn\u2019t been the only issue in throwing IBCS off track and preventing it from shoring up its elongated schedule. Pike acknowledged IBCS, while still in development, has to go through a variety of updates. IBCS appears to be another victim of a program wading slowly through the thick, viscous process of Defense Department acquisition and failing to keep pace with constantly evolving software upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pike explained the Army has demonstrated the system\u2019s ability to work with Patriot post-deployment build version 7 software, which existed at the time of IBCS\u2019 test program. But at the same time, the service has been fielding version 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are unique capabilities in the latest version of Patriot software that we want to be able to take advantage of inside of IBCS, so integrating the latest version of the Patriot software, integrating the latest version of the Sentinel software, because we continue to make improvements over time in that software,\u201d Pike said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army is also still operating off of the original hardware that it bought in 2010 when it began the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the program, Pike added. \u201cSo all our servers, routers, switches, all those kind of things are in intensive need of upgrade, so we have begun to do that hardware purchase to refresh the hardware and to get it in a production representative set of hardware that we will then take through another limited user test,\u201d and through other developmental testing as well as a production-phase initial operational test and evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Army Looks to Accelerate Air-and-Missile Defense Programs<\/a><\/i>]
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The Army has looked at how it could possibly buy back time on the IBCS program, according to Pike. \u201cOne of the things we looked at is obviously restructuring the program. There were several different factors in that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Integrating the Indirect Fire Protection Capability into the IBCS network was a big factor in the Army deciding to push out the IOC of IBCS, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Poland Wants Patriot With Different Battle Command System<\/a><\/i>]
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The service has also looked at opportunities to accelerate or shorten the test schedule, Pike said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBest-case world, we do the finalization of our software development program, get it out there, test it, it works perfectly the first time,\u201d Pike said. \u201cYou have a great opportunity to accelerate the program\u201d because the Army has built in extra time to correct possible failures that may occur in testing, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pike added that the budget isn\u2019t a factor in holding back the schedule, but if there are opportunities to speed up the program, the service may have to shift funding to make sure there are production dollars early enough to get the hardware in place to field on an accelerated basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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