THE LAST MILE FIRST
Lieutenant Colonel Jim Dryburgh
Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals
Capability Branch New Zealand Defence Force
Thoughts
“Give
me three good sections, add a solid
headquarters and we got the makings of a great
Platoon...
Give me three good platoons add a solid
headquarters and we’ve got the makings of a great
Company...
Provide the right level of organic support from
Combat Support and Combat Service Support Arms
and we have a Combined Arms Task
Group……NZ’s LAND PLATFORM”
Sequence
• A2CBL Overview
• NZ Army Operations
• The Last Mile
• NZ Operating Context
• NZ C4 Enabling Concepts
• The Way Ahead
AC2BL – Role and Function
The role for the AC2BL is to develop People, build relationships ,
expose and evaluate technology and integrate chosen solutions Enabling Army to:
-Provide focussed experimentation in Land C4 to support the
introduction of a LAND C4 capability as part of the NZDF LAND
C4ISR Project.
-Grow as an organisation
-Meet the C4ISR Environment of the future (FLOC)
-Assure the land component of NEC
Battle Lab Industry Engagement
• Currently an Informal Arrangement.
– Product Selection. HP was engaged to help the Battle Lab select the
most appropriate components for experimentation in NZ.
– Knowledge Transfer. Essential for Battle Lab project delivery, and in the
longer term to help bridge Army’s knowledge gap.
– Integration Assistance. HP assisted Army to integrate
components
and systems in order to provide an end-to-end solution.
• Capability Delivery.
– Evolutionary Acquisition.
– Architectures. Creation of a deployable architecture within an enterprise
architecture. Use of other best practice, including project management,
stakeholder engagement and governance.
– A Partnership for System Integration. A formal role for an NZ
based system integrator to work alongside Army.
– A Programme Based Approach. Project teams formed for specific
tasks.
Industry Partnership
Three Years of Experimentation
• Oct 2005 Start of basic research and winning the
internal information campaign thus allocation of
resources
• Jun 2006 CWID Internal Experiment
• Jun 2007 2nd CWID Internal Experiment
• Oct 2007 LAV Coy Assessment
• Jun 2008 ISR Experimentation
Validated Concepts
through Failures
and Successes
• Jun 2009 Tactical Area Networked Environment
Demonstration
• Oct 2009 Tactical Area Networked Environment Bn
Level Exercise
Operations Since 1994
• Of company size or smaller.
• Battalion deployed to East Timor in 1999 was the largest
commitment
• Mounted and Dismounted Patrols mainly operating from FOBs
• Conducted in partnership (Coalition).
• focused on maintaining security, law and order, and providing
humanitarian relief.
• Troop Rotation four to six months.
• Characterised by the need to support significant operations
simultaneously in different countries.
• Joint effects delivered by coalition partners
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The Last Mile
• We have defined the last mile as the provision of the
Command and Control Support System to the Soldier,
Platform and Command Post at Combat team and
below.
The Last Mile (Why)
• NZ Army Developing Combat Team focus
• Operate Dispersed Platoons
• Greatest need
• Efficient and Effective of Resources (People and Finance)
• Tangible
It is the level at which
we Train, Operate and
Fight and lays a
platform for growth
and diversity
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The Last Mile
• People
– Training, education and change ( Learning Organisation)
– War fighters in the Job now – OC, XO, Pl & Sect Comd + Soldiers
– Technical Personnel
• Information
– Corporate + Tactical blending
– Raw + Processed
– Near and real-time sharing and collaboration.
• Networks
–
Team, Area, Theatre and Strategic
“Launch & Learn”
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Future Land Operating Concept
Future Land Operating Concept
• Is designed to meet future challenges
• Recognises need to engage in close
combat
• Realises technology and improved
situational awareness enables better
combat decision making
• Reflects NZ Army’s enduring ethos and
values
• Network Enabled Army provides
opportunities to meet the future intent
(FLOC)
Deployment
Multi Role - Multi Mission
Operating Environment Outcomes
Cardinal Points
• Degrees of Arrangement
• Degrees of Capacity
• Degrees of Connectivity
• Degrees of
Interoperability
Command
Team
Soldier
Design Drivers
– Force projection and protection
– Coalition support for Situational Awareness .
– Operations are conducted in non-contiguous areas of operations
with tailored, widely dispersed units that are mobile and lethal.
– Access to a Global Information environment.
– Need to reduce footprints through reach back.
– Enable the Soldier, Team and Commander to mass effects rather
than forces.
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Common Services
• Voice
• Collaboration and Messaging
• Common Operating Picture
• Publish, Discover, Subscribe
• Productivity Tools
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Information Flows and Categories
– Collaborative Planning Information
– Situational Awareness Information
– Intelligence Information
– Multinational Information
– Support information
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Emerging Concepts and Capabilities
• C4 Support Group
– Theatre Communications Access Node
– Forward Information Systems Team
– Network Operations Section (Including Computer Network Defence)
– Patrol Signaller (C4 Operator???)
• Network Enabled Elements
– Soldier
– Platform
– Command Post
• Key Concepts
– Tactical Area Networked Environment
– TATS ( Team, Area, Theatre Strategic) - Talk Zones
– Common Universal Bearer System
– EOIP
– Interoperability Touch Points
Tactical Area Network Environment
Tactical Area Network Environment (TANE)
Battlefield
Communications
Infrastructure
Tactical Information
Environment
Reconnaissance and
Surveillance Systems
Platform Integration (Command Post, Platform, Soldier)
Tactical Area Networked Environment
Theatre Communications Access Node
Forward Information Systems Team
Common Universal Bearer System (CUBS)
Network Enabled Soldier
• Network-enabled soldier. Secure
voice/data communications
(Harris’s SPR) integrated with a
rugged BMS for the dismounted
soldier from Cobham (enabling
Battle Lab's Blue Force Tracking
(BFT) system). Augmented with
Multiband Radios (117G/148)
Network Enabled Platforms
• Network-enabled platforms. Light Armoured Vehicles (LAV) and
Light Operational Vehicles (LOV) fitted with the Battle-Hawk Battle
Management System (BMS) from Cobham Defence Communications,
and high capacity data communications (HCDR & SPR) from Harris
Corporation. LAV also Fitted with Harris 117G
Command Post Pod
MILSAT COM
BGAN SAT
MASTS
DATA ACCESS BRICK
CELL OPS CLK/SIG
DUTY OFFICER
•HCDR
•VHF NETS
•HF NETS
CELL DUTY OFFR
TANE TERMINAL(S)
CP DUTY OFFR
COALITION TERMINAL
•UNIFIED VOICE SERVICES
UNCLAS/RESTRICTED
TERMINAL
PRINTER
PLOTTER
DC2S TERMINAL
FLAT PANEL ARRAY
•COP
•ISR
•CP LOG
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What We Are Doing
• Adopt a common information model
• Adopt an Architectural Approach
• Minimal Application Environment
• 60% of Something...
• Keep complexity at the core - Simplicity at the edge
• Simple things superbly
What we need to investigate
• Where are the interoperability touch points?
• What are the Information Exchange Requirement
standards?
• How do we blend Business and Battle space?
• How do we protect?
Way Ahead Building Blocks
Battle lab– a glimpse of the future
Questions