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SEC hosts another successful JUICE exercise
For the 19th year, SEC hosted the annual Joint Users Interoperability Communications Exercise (JUICE) from 11-29 June. JUICE serves as a capstone event for research, development, technology and engineering activities that have taken place throughout the year in SEC’s Joint On-demand Interoperability Network (JOIN). The JOIN provides a distributed test environment for combatant commands, military services, inter-agency, multi-national and coalition partners. It allows these groups to collaborate and forge new avenues for joint interoperability communications to meet the demands of the future operational environment, according to John Kahler, JOIN Chief.
To learn more about the JUICE exercise, check out this article, originally posted on APG News.
CECOM hosts world-wide joint communications exercise at APG
By ANDRICKA THOMAS
CECOM
Senior communications leaders toured the 19th Annual Joint Users Interoperability Communications Exercise, or JUICE 2012, June 28, at the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, C4SIR, Center of Excellence.
JUICE is an annual worldwide Department of Defense national and global communications exercise connecting more than 40 organizations under one common operating environment supporting combatant commands, as well as intergovernmental, interagency and multi-national partners in a joint task force environment.
Hosted by the U.S. Army Communications- Electronics Command’s Software Engineering Center, the exercise joined Portugal, Poland, Norway, Spain and Sweden with the Armed Forces Joint community. CECOM is currently the only joint unified capabilities tactical pilot lab in Department of Defense, joining participants and systems worldwide to interconnect directly to a DISA provided Unified Capabilities back-bone through Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
“JUICE is an exercise that connects the C4ISR community together, worldwide, to test, evaluate and certify new systems, at the joint level, and work through challenges before those systems are fielded,” said Maj. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell, APG installation and CECOM commander.
This year, U.S. Strategic Command, a key cyber-oriented combatant command, sponsored the event and issued Commanders intent, mission and gained support of other Combatant Commands. The U.S. Air Force Reserve Air National Guard 281st Combat Communications Squadron staffed the Joint Network Operations Control Center and the Marine Corps Network Operations Security Center provides secure cellular capabilities and other cutting-edge voice technologies to the Warfighter.
Successful execution of robust exercises such as JUICE is crucial as we face the future with a joint force that is smaller, more agile, flexible, ready, and technologically advanced, as outlined in the President’s approach to national security, Priorities for the 21st Century Defense, said Elizabeth M. Durham- Ruiz, senior technical advisor, USSTRATCOM/J6, who attended the event. STRATCOM will play a major role in this strategy with global capabilities that underpin strategic deterrence, provide unique options to our national leaders, and enhance the joint force’s combat effectiveness, Durham-Ruiz explained.
Team C4ISR partner organizations, Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical and the Army Communications- Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center also participated and demonstrated key technologies for the future more agile, responsive and adaptive Warfighter.
JUICE’s key objective is to validate interoperability among key Joint tactical and strategic communications systems in preparation for the Global Information Grid transition to Unified Capabilities and ensure NATO and Coalition interoperability, according to John Kahler, Joint On-demand Interoperability Network chief.
This venue provides Joint and Reserve military participants the chance to leverage training on the latest fielded equipment prior to deployment, in a real-world tactical environment without disturbing the operations tempo. The lessons learned from JUICE will directly impact field operations and contribute to communications mission success on a global scale for both military, Defense Civil Authorities and Homeland emergency response operations, said Kahler.
This year’s theme is ‘Unified Capabilities for the Battlefield of the Future’ focusing on the information sharing from multiple sources to give our Warfighters a competitive edge. JUICE 2012 featured setting up command and control posts, crypto modernization efforts, and ground and air radio communications in remote environments.
Managed from APG, the event participants work in concert with approximately 800-1000 Department of Defense personnel and Coalition partners to evaluate new and emerging technologies in an environment mirroring real-time battle field environments, said Kahler.
“Industry participants can leverage this opportunity to prepare and assess their systems before participating in the next iteration of Network Integration Evaluation, 13.1,” said Kahler. “As the Army continues to evolve to be the Army of 2020, we’re hoping this event becomes even better as each year goes on year,” said Ferrell.
JUICE hosts VIPs today
Posted by mward in Uncategorized on June 23, 2011
Having already hosted several media outlets, public officials, and educational institutions, JUICE will conclude today with a visit by our Army senior leaders. The Joint User Interoperability Communications Exercise (JUICE) 2011 will take visitors on an evolutionary three-year journey that begins with the concept for developing a much-needed capability linking architectures and joint operating concepts in the operational world. This concept matured into prototyping and testing in a distributed laboratory environment – the Joint On-demand Interoperability Network (JOIN). JOIN provides the Information Grid for JUICE, having the capability to connect operational sites worldwide via both terrestrial and satellite links.
JOIN , a round-the-clock secure, survivable, interoperable presence, is dynamically configurable to be a specific operational, training, experimental, or assessment/validation information network for support to the Warfighter, as well as combat and materiel developers. JOIN is available free of charge to DoD organizations and, traditionally, has served many critical missions, such as pre-deployment staging of equipment, training, and distributed testing, amongst many others. This provides an advanced degree of realism which greatly increases Warfighter preparedness prior to actual deployment.
The next year of the journey leaves behind the conceptual realm of JOIN and moves into the complicated operational world of deployment, employment, redeployment and sustainment, and this is where the operational realm of JUICE takes over. Visitors will be directed to the Joint Task Force (JTF) Forward Operating Base (FOB) that is JUICE. Here, staff will demonstrate how JUICE has gone from paper concept to live deployment because of the immensity of the effort and the requisite expertise involved. Next, visitors will be directed to the Joint NETOPS Coordination Center (JNCC), which is tasked with the responsibility of provisioning network services on time at JUICE’s worldwide locations. The JNCC is the heartbeat of JUICE and vital to the success of the mission.
The journey will conclude with a visit to the sustainment systems, followed by a question and answer session.
- John Caruso, JUICE
JUICE kicks off at SEC Headquarters
Posted by mward in Uncategorized on June 9, 2011
The 18th Annual Joint Users Interoperability Communications Exercise (JUICE) is taking place over the next few weeks, and is headquartered right here at SEC Headquarters in Aberdeen Proving Ground. This will be the first time we’ve hosted the event here at APG, and hope that this exercise will define a new construct for supporting the Warfighter at the tactical edge of the Battlespace. The primary focus of JUICE, a global event with over 20 sites world-wide and more than 300 participants, is to demonstrate the interoperability of the various communications capabilities and technologies across the Battlespace.
But JUICE is so much more than that. It’s an opportunity to aid our Warfighter in a unique and truly authentic way. 
The JUICE exercise does not simulate or emulate communications interoperability – participants use actual tactical networks. This means that JUICE enables the Warfighter to participate in actual training and testing, which better prepares the solider for real-life situations in the Battlespace.
In addition to the exercise, JUICE will also host several special events throughout its run. Various media outlets and local, state, and federal officials will attend JUICE’s Industry Day June 21. The following day, partnering educational institutions, as well as representatives from the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program will tour the exercise. The event will conclude on June 23 with a visit by our Army senior leaders. JUICE is sponsored by SEC and PEO C3T.
Be sure to check back with us as we continue to update you on the JUICE event throughout the next few weeks.
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