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Engineering, Software Architectures, System Engineering, Business Operations Support to Command, Power and Integration (CP&I) Directorate Solicitation #: W56KGU-17-R-0010 12 April 2017 Command, Power & Integration Directorate

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CP&I Directorate Organization

12 APRIL 2017

CP&I Directorate Facilities

Aberdeen Proving Ground Building 3200

Prototype Integration Facility Approx. 19,500 sq feet of office space

Approx. 84,900 sq feet of lab space

Approximate 82,500 sq feet of office space ▪ Approximate 189,000 sq feet of lab space Aberdeen Proving Ground Building 5100

Power and Operational Energy Approx. 30,000 sq feet of office space Approx. 60,000 sq feet of lab space

Additional facilities at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia Aberdeen Proving Ground Building 6007

Front Office, Operations, Mission Command, and Positioning, Navigation & Timing Approx. 33,000 sq feet of office space Approx. 35,000 sq feet of lab space

Business Operations Division

CONTRACTING SUPPORT

Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs) work closely with Divisions as well as contracting agencies to ensure our contracting requirements are satisfied.

Provide program and budget support to all four CP&I Divisions and the Front Office. Manage budget execution via GFEBS, plan for future years’ funding and provide Budget and Finance Policy guidance to the directorate.

PROGRAM AND BUDGET ANALYSIS

OPERATIONS SUPPORT

Manage property inventory, facilities, training and suspense's for all Divisions across three buildings for CP&I. Review, interpret and distribute higher HQ’s policies, regs. and procedures to CP&I workforce.

HUMAN RESOURCES SUPPORT

Provide Human Resources support and guidance to all employees and managers. Manage the performance systems, all personnel actions and awards for CP&I.

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Positioning, Navigation & Timing Division (PNT)

Positioning, Navigation & Timing

What We Do:

Research, develop, analyze, and integrate technologies and systems for positioning, navigation, and timing for US Army mounted and dismounted soldiers and systems

Importance of PNT

PNT

PNT impacts all Army platforms across all Army domains

EW

Ground Air Maritime Munitions Augmentation Mounted Dismounted Fixed Sensors Robotics Fixed Wing Rotary Wing Lighter than Air

UAS

Logistics Support Landing Craft Tugs Small Boats Air Launched Artillery Systems Rocket Systems Mortar Systems Unique Operating Conditions Long Durations Contested Environments Indoors and Sub-Surface Environments SWAP-C Constrained

The Army is the largest GPS user in DoD, making PNT a Priority

An Integrated Architecture approach is needed to implement PNT requirements on Platforms 640,000+ Individual Systems that Require PNT in the Army with >90 Different GPS Receivers

PNT Division

Mounted PNT: Robust integrated multi-sensor system for vehicular applications, supporting all PNT needs on the mounted platform, and maintaining PNT assurance during operations in GPS denied environments. Mounted PNT will be scalable and configurable in order to suit any needs. Mounted PNT will also provide a PNT system that can be used in an autonomous platform.

Dismounted PNT: Low-SWAP multi-sensor PNT system for the soldier, maintaining PNT assurance for the Warfighter. Dismounted PNT will incorporate ranging devices, vision navigation sensors and miniature inertial sensors to allow continuous operations when GPS is unavailable.

Pseudolites: Augmentation of military GPS signals in denied environments through terrestrial and aerial based transmitters enabling satellite-like signal acquisition and tracking. Ultimately providing navigation and timing to military forces on the battlefield in GPS degraded or denied environments.

Anti-Jam Antennas: Enables GPS signal acquisition and tracking in challenged environments.

7200sqft PNT Lab Space

FACILITIES & CAPABILITIES

Positioning, Navigation & Timing Projects

2 Axis Rate Table High Precision Multi Axis Inertials Analysis

Spirent GSS9000 Configurable RF Signal Generator

PNT Capability Assessment Vehicle

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Mission Command Capabilities Division

MC Operational Objectives

S&T Technical Challenges

1. Decisions at the Speed of Battle 2. Expeditionary Command and Maneuver

Consistent User experience (regardless of end-user device)

Collaborative Shared Data Mobile (crosses Computing Environments) Usable Outside the CP Mounted Dismounted DIL-Tolerant Disparate Networks … integrate and synchronize … operational synthesis .. shared understanding …conduct dispersed, semi-independent ops … etc..

Integrated Sociotechnical SoS Mobile Scalable Simple Applied KM, etc BG Mingus, MC COE, Sept 2016

“…allow commanders to remain mobile without giving up mission command capability…” -- TRADOC Force 2025 Obj 5(c) Mission Command Network Operational View (From Mission Command Network Narrative 1 Oct 2015)

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Technical Challenges Decisions at the Speed of Battle

Decision Support

Human-Computer Interaction

Data Synchronization

Intelligent Agents

Decisions at the Speed of Battle: Capability to make effective decisions at the point of action through simplifying computing infrastructure & reducing cognitive burden

Background: Army Commanders must make timely, effective decisions in an increasingly complex world with more capable adversaries. Vast amounts of available data can increase cognitive burden and reliance on degraded or contested networks, making the decision process harder. Efforts are needed in investigating technologies that integrate and simplify data to improve situational awareness, shared understanding, and team decision-making at the point of action in highly complex and uncertain environments.

POM Strategy: Army S&T efforts will focus on research and development to improve decision making through predictive mission recommendations and alerts, simple and intuitive interfaces, consistent data across all environments, and automation of mission command related tasks through introduction of intelligent agents.

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Technical Challenges Decisions at the Speed of Battle

Decision Support

Human-Computer Interaction

Data Synchronization

Intelligent Agents

Decision Support: Due to complex environments and compressed operational timescales, Commanders and Staff cannot always incorporate all available information when making decisions. There is a need to develop tools and adapt processes to facilitate timely and effective tactical decision-making during mission planning and execution.

Human-Computer Interaction: Current human-computer interfaces often require users to expend significant time and effort to exchange information with Mission Command systems. Given increased task complexity demands and increased information exchange between human and machine, there is a need to develop more naturalistic interfaces to reduce cognitive burden, improve shared understanding, and achieve mutual trust.

Data Synchronization: Data exists in many forms and locations across Army systems, leading to incomplete, inaccurate, or stale data. Capabilities are needed to ensure that data is always accessible when, where, and in the format it is needed, across systems, echelons, computing environments, security domains, and DIL networks.

Intelligent Agents: Vast amounts of complex data increase the cognitive burden of filtering and integrating data into actionable information. There is a need to research, extend, and combine artificial intelligence and automation techniques to enhance situational understanding, as well as, planning and synchronizing manned and unmanned assets to support effective teaming and execution of mission orders.

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Technical Challenges Expeditionary Command & Maneuver Mobile Command Nodes

Distributed Computing Infrastructure

Agile Command Post Planning & Organization

Expeditionary Command & Maneuver: Capability to rapidly deploy, scale and reconfigure command nodes to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative in a dynamic operational environment while maintaining freedom of maneuver.

Background: The Army is shifting its command post strategy from one that is static and tied to unit formations to an adaptable and agile suite of equipment tailored to the specific requirements of a mission and its operational conditions. Technology is required to increase the simplicity of the constituent command post equipment and the speed that this equipment can be employed.

POM Strategy: Army S&T efforts focused on research and development in providing modular equipment to construct flexible and scalable command posts, seamless information environment and knowledge management technologies which allow the anticipation of information needs and the proactive staging of information for the commander, and applying research to the multi-dimensional resource scheduling problem of task organizing our formations to mission at unprecedented levels of speed.

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Technical Challenges Expeditionary Command & Maneuver Mobile Command Nodes

Distributed Computing Infrastructure

Agile Command Post Planning & Organization

Mobile Command Nodes: Providing physical infrastructure technologies that are flexible enough to be packaged into configurable capabilities suitable for multiple missions. Buildings, vehicles, shelters and dismounted equipment must be modular and serve multiple functions for the warfighter. The developed equipment and technical interface standards must serve multiple domains and provide for the disbursement and concealment of command nodes and subassemblies.

Distributed Computing Infrastructure: Providing a seamless computing environment that is available to commanders and staff performing mission command throughout all physical locations. Physical processing centers allocated to command nodes which allow the data and information environment to be available.

Agile Command Post Planning & Organization: Providing a planning and provisioning capability for unit formations and the equipment that makes up the physical and information environments required for mission command. The planning and scheduling of resources required to conduct operations needs to be done in a dynamic and flexible manner. The capability to quickly re-plan and re-configure formations and equipment to suit new changing threats and operational conditions.

Current Lines of Effort

Decision Support Reduce information overload & improve decision making through R&D of AI and Autonomy software to assist Warfighters with knowledge management, data analysis, task automation, automated recommendations and intuitive data presentation

Computing Environments Validate and reduce risk for COE data architecture; simple, intuitive, consistent data and human computer interaction

Command Post Concepts Enable more mobile, scalable, and tailorable command post designs that support all phases of tactical operations & forms of maneuver

Design Principles: Simple, Intuitive, Commander Centric, Expeditionary

Summary

Mission Command Capabilities Division

SYSTEMS

ENGINEERING ANALYSIS

COMPUTING

ENVIRONMENTS

Automated Planning Framework performs research & development of data science and artificial intelligence techniques to support military decision making.

DECISION

SUPPORT

Tactical Computing Environment develops data architectures and human computer interaction methods that work across disparate platforms & networks.

Agile process for requirements, user story development, and verification and validation of R&D projects. Architectural analysis of current systems and concepts.

FIELD EXPERIMENTATION

Designs and executes field based experiments and demonstrations with state of the art technologies based on operational vignettes to validate concepts and technologies.

COMMAND POST CONCEPTS

Expeditionary Command Post Concepts researches and develops software, hardware and standards to demonstrate and transition mobile and tailorable command post capabilities.

Power Division

Operational Energy Focus

Power Division

Advanced Integrated Soldier Power STO-R: Develop advanced electrochemical materials and energy harvesting components that provide more efficient Soldier and small unit power and energy technologies with enhanced safety features and the ability to be integrated into existing products.

Wireless Power: Develop a far field energy transfer systems to reduce the logistical burden of delivering fuel by beaming energy to remote locations enabling on demand power.

Energy Informed Operations: Develop advanced power network control standards, and applications to enable high penetration of renewable technologies, ad-hoc arrangements and minimize wasted power in modular, scalable grids for self-sustaining Soldiers and base camps.

FACILITIES & CAPABILITIES

Power Division Projects

Research and Development

Prototyping

Integration

Test and Evaluation

Environmental Chambers

Solar Emulator

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Prototyping, Integration & Testing Division (PIT)

C4ISR PIF Core Competencies

Fabrication, Assembly & Prototyping

As the CERDEC C4ISR Prototype Integration Facility (PIF), the PI&T Division provides engineering design, development, fabrication, installation, integration, and fielding support for shelter, vehicle, aircraft, watercraft and soldier prototype C4ISR systems.

Environmental Test & Evaluation

The CERDEC C4ISR PIF provides environmental testing and engineering services designed to ensure that systems and components survive the harsh tactical environment, by evaluating and ruggedizing these items to meet their intended operating and storage environments.

C4ISR Systems Design

The CERDEC C4ISR PIF executes projects where the final deliverable is an engineering design product, without subsequent fabrication and integration support, and also provides engineering consulting and expert support services in the area of C4ISR platform systems integration.

The C4ISR PIF’s Quality Management System is ISO 9001 certified

C4ISR PIF Capabilities

Engineering and C4ISR Systems Design, Fabrication, Assembly and Prototyping, Environmental Testing and Evaluation for Integrated C4ISR Platforms CAD & Virtual Prototyping Computer-Aided-Design Configuration Management Tech Data Packages Virtual Prototyping Lab

Fabrication & CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing CNC Fabrication Machinery Sheetmetal & Machine Shops Cable / Electrical Manufacturing

Prototype Systems Integration Computer-Aided Manufacturing CNC Fabrication Machinery Sheetmetal & Machine Shops Cable / Electrical Manufacturing Test & Evaluation Environmental Test Lab MIL-STD-810 Testing Equipment Evaluation Design for Ruggedization

All performed in an ISO-9001 quality management system Engineering Consulting Engineering Support to PM’s Interface Between Labs / PM’s and Prototyping Efforts

Collaboration with S&TCD for EMI / EMC Design & Analysis Network / Telecommunications and System Architectures

Engineering Design & Analysis Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering FEA / CFD Analysis Tools Systems Eng’g Integration Lab

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Answers to all questions will be posted to FBO.gov

All Visit badges are to be returned to the front desk in lobby

Final Remarks

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