Joint Synthetic Battlespace Desert Pivot Experiment JDPE

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Joint Synthetic Battlespace Desert Pivot
Experiment (JDPE)

April 3, 2003
S. David Kwak, PhD ESC/CXE-MITRE (781)
271-6431 dkwak_at_mitre.org
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Contents

• JSB (Joint Synthetic Battlespace)
• JSB Desert Pivot Experiment (JDPE) Events
• Goals and Objectives
• Architecture
• Network
• System diagram
• Component systems
• Assessment and Lessons Learned
• Conclusion

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JSB Vision
Warfighter and Engineers working together in a
common environment
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Implementation of The JSB

• JSB JSB Architecture JSB Core Services
• JSB Architecture
• Defines standards, structure, and protocols
• JSB Technical Infrastructure
• JSB Executable Specification Architecture
• JSB System Engineering Process
• JSB IDE (Integrated Digital Environment)
• JSB Core Services
• JSB Digital services
• JSB Components (Legacy, New CSE)
• JSB Component Services (Execution)
• JSB data (use cases, scenarios, CM sets, Blue and
  Red data, etc)
• JSB Human Services
• Help desk, compliance testing, etc
• JSB Instance
• A collection of the JSB components that confirms
  the JSB Architectural standards, structure and
  protocols, which is ready to be executable to
  meet a particular set of users requirements

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JDPE Goal

• JSB Desert Pivot Experiment (JDPE)
• Proof of concept experiment for Operational use
  of the JSB
• Desert Pivot Exercise
• Quarterly Joint Distributed Virtual Exercise at
  TACCSF (Theater Aerospace Command Control
  Simulation Facility) to support operational
  readiness
• Provides a realistic environment by portraying a
  natural real world setting front-line
  warfighting capability and remotely located
  engineering support

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JDPE Event 1 Objectives

• Creates a representative engineering problem
  important to the warfighter in the context of
  Time Critical Targeting (TCT)
• Assesses the operational and engineering impact
• ISR Asset Management
• Integrate an ISR asset management capability into
  JDPE event 1 and use the DP simulation capability
  to assess the impact to operator situational
  awareness and the ability of engineers to
  effectively use the simulation capability to
  perform the assessment.
• Synthetic Weather
• Integrate a synthetic weather representation into
  the JDPE event 1 to assess the impact to operator
  situational awareness (as a component of overall
  operator readiness) and the impact to engineers
  to effectively assess the ISR asset management
  capability.

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JDPE Approaches

• Takes Evolutionary Spiral Experimentation
• Conducts the experiment as non-intrusive to the
  Desert Pivot Experiments as possible
• Maximize synergy of two operations at the C2
  Enterprise Integration Facility (CEIF) and TACCSF
• Employ disciplinary system engineering
• Adopt a well defined engineering and operational
  assessment

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JSB Desert Pivot Experiment Architecture
Desert Pivot (TACCSF)
JSB Prototype (CEIF)
JSB Prototype
Terrain DB
Scenario
OASES (Client)
Scenario (DP)
CSE
White Cell
Network Connectivity (T1/DISN-LES/ DREN)
OASES
FalconView
Terrain DB (DP)
SIM
ISR Assets E3, E8, UAV
Sensors EO/IR/SAR/GMTI
CRC
Virtual Cockpits
Platform SIM
ISR Warrior (Server)
ISR Manager (Remote)
ISR Manager (Remote)
CAOC-N
ISR Manager (Client)
DGS-1
ISR Warrior (Client)
ISR Warrior (Client)
ISR Manager (Host)
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JSB Desert Pivot Experiment Event 1 Architecture
FTP Weather Server
Desert Pivot (TACCSF)
JSB Prototype (CEIF)
JSB Prototype
Terrain DB
Scenario
OASES (Client)
Scenario (DP)
CSE
White Cell
ISDN(HLA/RTI)
OASES
FalconView
Terrain DB (DP)
SIM
ISR Assets E3, E8, UAV
Sensors EO/IR/SAR/GMTI

• ISR Warrior
• Weather

CRC
Virtual Cockpits
Platform SIM
ISDN(Video Track Feed)
ISR Warrior (Server)
ISR Warrior (Client)
ISDN(HTTP)
128K for 2D
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Bandwidth Requirement Analysis
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JDPE CEIF Network
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JDEP CEIF H/W and S/W
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JDPE TACCSF Network
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JDPE TACCSF H/W S/W
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ISR Warrior
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OASES

• Ocean Atmosphere Space Environment Server (OASES)
  provides two functions
• Source for the synthetic weather data at JDPE
• 3D Weather visualization for the users

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EnerDyne LNX 7000 JPEG En/Decoder
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Assessment and Lessons Learned (1/2)

• The first successful JSB participation in the
  operational exercise
• JDPE creates an environment that engineers
  remotely provide supports for the front-line
  warfighters, and proved the concept.
• Distributed experiments
• The network easily becomes a long pole of the
  tent, and it did.
• Newly added features
• Operational users are fully occupied by old
  paradigm. They have little time to take
  advantage of newly added features.
• Weather
• ISR Warrior
• The video compression device was a simple robust
  appliance. It allows for prediator video over
  ISDN, which was shared with OASES and
  ISR-Warrior.
• Enerdyne M-JPEG En/Decoder

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Assessment and Lessons Learned (2/2)

• Point to Point ISDN network
• Maintained a constant network latency
• Could support following network traffics
• Between ISR Warrior server and client
• Between OASES server and client, and
• Of Predator video and telemetry data with the
  compression device.
• Occasional FTPs were also used.
• Unscheduled simulated server crash
• Introduced confusion of operator users
• Slow server response
• Network congestion
• Server down
• Causes the operator extra mouse clicks before
  realizing the pre-informed simulated unscheduled
  server crash
• It could have been a much longer frustration to
  users.

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Summary and Conclusion

• The Desert Pivot Exercise provided a wonderful
  opportunity for the JSB to prove the concept in
  the operational environment.
• The JSB proved the concept in the context of the
  DP 03-01 being distributed in TACCSF and CEIF.
• The JSB team is working with the TACCSF to bring
  the full capability of the JSB in the DP.
• Finally, the JSB team greatly appreciate the
  professional and technically competent support
  given by the TACCSF DP personnel during the JDPE
  Event 1.