Archive for June, 2011
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
CECOM is now on Facebook
Posted by mward in social media, Uncategorized on June 16, 2011
The US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) can now be found on Facebook! Learn more about CECOM and get the latest information on what’s happening throughout the command.
Check out their page at http://www.facebook.com/CommunicationsElectronicsCommandCECOM
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.
New platform, unwavering mission
Posted by mward in mission, social media on June 3, 2011
Not long ago, it occured to me that we needed a new voice. As the Director of the CECOM Software Engineering Center, I’m always looking for innovative ways to reach out to our Warfighter, colleagues, and friends; to keep our partners informed; and to get feedback whenever possible. I had heard a lot about how government agencies like ours had been reaching out to new audiences using the latest technologies and social media. This really got me thinking: if software engineering is not a static discpline, then we certainly should not be a static organization.
Which brings us here today, introducing the SEC Live blog, out first official foray into the social media world. The SEC Live blog is just one way of connecting with the Warfighter, our partners, civilians, and everyone in between. We’ll be discussing topics like news and events occuring within SEC, the latest technologies and developments in the software field, customer success stories, and many more. We’ll not just be talking; we’ll be listening, too. Your comments and feedback are vital to keeping this blog a platform for open dialogue and meaningful conversation.
The SEC’s mission is simple: Provide life cycle software solutions and services that enable Warfighting superiority and information dominance across the Enterprise. My hope is that this blog serves as a venue to share our mission with new audiences and to remind old friends that our number one goal has and will always be to support the Warfighter through software superiority. This blog will enable our organization and our partners to hear and be heard through this new voice.
I hope that you’ll continue to check in with us here at SEC Live and let us know how we’re doing.
Until next time…
- Ned
Mr. Nelson Keeler is the Director of the CECOM Software Engineering Center. For more information about this blog or the SEC, please visit our website at http://www.sec.army.mil/secweb/
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