Command, control wing adds joint digital integration mission
Posted 10/25/2010
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by Bill Dowell
505th Command and Control Wing Public Affairs
10/25/2010 - HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- A new mission was added to the 505th Command and Control Wing here Oct. 15.
The 505th Operations Group at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., took over Joint Digital Integration for Combat Engagement, or JDICE, from the Air Force Command and Control Integration Center. The JDICE capability complements the wing's mission to improve warfighter capability through C2 testing, tactics development and training.
"The addition of this capability enables the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center to integrate C2 and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance across the Air Force's major commands and the joint community," said Col. Ed McKinzie, the 505th CCW commander.
JDICE facilitates battlefield data sharing from many different sources over secure networks. The information it provides is timely, accurate, actionable and tactically significant to enhance joint combat effectiveness, according to JDICE team members.
"Adding the JDICE mission allows the wing to be at the center of integration and testing of these capabilities," said Col. Douglas Anderson, the 505th OG commander. "It brings us an ability to test data exchange capabilities and net-enabled tactics, techniques and procedures, providing better situational awareness to the warfighter."
The JDICE team, now part of the 505th Operations Squadron, will continue to develop and test TTP and associated Joint Data Network modifications to increase tactical and operation-level situational awareness. The data links use radio signals to transmit information for viewing via cockpit or C2 display terminals.
"Using this information, warfighters can deconflict friendly forces, avoid threats and improve targeting and weapons delivery," said Lt. Col. Michael Christie, the 505th OS commander. "Friendly forces are provided a visual representation that sorts out the good guys from the bad guys and filters out information the warfighter does not need."
JDICE began in 2003 as a Secretary of Defense-chartered, USAFWC-hosted Joint Test and Evaluation program. In 2007 the U.S. Air Force Warfighting Integration Office chartered JDICE to integrate, develop and evaluate TTP for combat identification, advanced programs and emerging capabilities. According to Colonel Christie, being part of the 505th CCW allows JDICE capabilities to be fully integrated, tested in USAFWC exercises and developed to provide warfighters with timely, fused information from national sources.
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