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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. \u2014 A year-old lab is cutting down the time it takes to perform risk-reducing tests on technologies headed to major military exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Army\u2019s Joint Systems Integration Laboratory, created in October 2020, is the next iteration of the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center\u2019s efforts to perform lab-based risk reduction on communications and technical gear before it goes out to the field for training. Typically, the Army wants to ensure such systems work from a technical perspective before soldiers use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The communications exercise risk-reduction leading up to a major Army exercise last year, Project Convergence 20<\/a>, took six weeks. Now the lab is able to fulfil that same need for this year\u2019s Project Convergence<\/a> in 10 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were able to cut back on a heck of a lot of time, travel and work that went on out in the dirt down there,\u201d Kimberly Moeltner, JSIL lead, told C4SIRNET in a Nov. 2 interview. \u201cThat\u2019s where you see the bang for the buck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 20,000-square-foot facility is able to trim the timeline because it can replicate operational environments. For example, officials said, if a radio needs to be tweaked, someone needs to physically drive onto the range, which is both time-consuming and difficult because of ongoing live-fire exercises. Instead, the lab can replicate distances and, to some degree, threats to provide a baseline prior to fielding tech. That helps the service understand how systems of systems integrate with each other over various networks \u2014 a complex task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The systems won\u2019t always work in the field exactly as they did in the lab, but the JSIL\u2019s modeling and simulation cuts down on tweaks needed during an exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we can do it here, it doesn\u2019t mean it will work right off the bat out in a real operational scenario, but it does mean that we know in the controlled environment these are the pieces that did work, and so it\u2019s got to be something else that lets us target where those challenges may be,\u201d said Joseph Welch, director of the C5ISR Center. \u201cIt\u2019s a very larger area, and there\u2019s a lot of potential for things to go wrong [while] understanding what your baseline looks like. The JSIL is able to do all of that so that we know when these systems start performing out there, if they\u2019ve got issues or challenges, we know what the baseline looks like and we also have this capability that\u2019s back here that\u2019s able to troubleshoot in parallel to make [Project Convergence] as successful as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, experts can remotely participate with the lab, which widens the pool of those able to contribute to JSIL\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another difference between previous risk-reduction efforts and JSIL\u2019s current approach is the inclusion of joint partners. As the Defense Department charts toward its new operating concept \u2014 Joint All-Domain Command and Control \u2014 the armed services will need to coordinate more on systems. Ahead of this year\u2019s Project Convergence, there were 13 external organizations, including joint partners, that joined the lab\u2019s efforts. That complemented the actual exercise, which saw a significant increase in joint participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welch said there were representatives from all the services at the communications exercises ahead of Project Convergence, and he found it interesting to see how all the systems behaved in real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next year, officials hope to bring in coalition partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the smaller picture<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Officials also said JSIL can help smaller and informal communications exercises more frequently to improve the fidelity of systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could also be leveraged by joint partners in conjunction with their labs or by companies to improve systems and help transition programs from the research and development community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, given all the data the facility provides, officials said they are working with the Army\u2019s testing community to reuse some of that data to feed into developmental tests for programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou want to learn as much as you can before you have to get out in the operational environment where it\u2019s costly and it can be very complex to understand the variables because the dynamics of that environment, understand as much as you can in the lab,\u201d Welch said. \u201cI would foresee the JSIL being utilized potentially reaching developmental test objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combined with the C5ISR Center\u2019s DevSecOps effort, dubbed Orion Forge, the lab could also support operations rather than just operational exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou could envision where we\u2019ve got a product that\u2019s deployed, it\u2019s been fielded, it\u2019s managed by a [project or program manager] and there\u2019s some real-time feedback because of a situation that wasn\u2019t anticipated where we need to bring this in or we need to make this change to the software,\u201d Welch said. \u201cThe Orion Forge implementation \u2014 it provides the environment for that to be received, built and then redeployed very rapidly to be able to adjust those needs quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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