The Battle Control Center, a report from the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) '99

Abstract

The United States Air Force (USAF) is evaluating the next generation ground-based Command and Control (C2) equipment. As part of that effort the 133d Air Control Squadron (ACS) Iowa Air National Guard (ANG) has been an active participant in the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) '99. The efforts of the ANG have included the development and testing of a prototype next generation C2 configuration, the Battle Control Center (BCC) and Remote Communications Cell (RCC) at JEFX. This paper will discuss the transition of the existing Modular Control Equipment (MCE) to the BCC, the JEFX experiment, lessons learned and further development of state-of-the-art C2 visualization systems. This paper will focus on the traditional MCE tasks that were performed in the BCC. Additional topics such as time critical targeting (TCT) and real-time imagery were also demonstrated at JEFX '99, but will not be addressed in this paper due to the time and space constraints.