The Command and Control Rapid Prototyping Continuum (C2RPC), a collaborative effort between ONR, the Program Executive Office Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence (PEO C4I) and Commander Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT), will improve battle commanders' access to fleet readiness. (See C2RPC video on YouTube)
"This has been a change in how we do acquisition, in that we've been doing it in an accelerated timeline," said Gary Toth, ONR C2 program manager. "It's been a true partnership between science and technology (S&T) and the operational user."
The effort is also the model for rapid acquisition at PEO C4I and is changing how that command does business too, he said.
Toth will deliver the keynote address on the first day of the IEEE conference on Cognitive Methods in Situational Awareness and Decision support."
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Cyber Defense
The US military is preparing for 21st Century electronic warfare and cyber terrorism. A joint US Cyber Command and four service cyber commands have been set up.
Their mission is to defend American military networks and civilian American infrastructure from cyber terrorism and from foreign government hackers.
The officers leading these cyber commands explain how they are organized, how they operate, and how they will protect the United States from foreign military hackers, intelligence agencies, and cyber terrorists.
