The CWID Senior Management Group is looking for all multinational information sharing solutions to be built on a foundation that is net-centric, secure, scalable and bandwidth sensitive.
Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2007 is "an engine for discovering solutions for U.S. military, coalition and agency C4ISR challenges."
CWID, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff series of technology tests, allows U.S. combatant commands, Defense Department organizations, other government agencies, industry and the international community to investigate command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions that focus on prioritized warfighting objectives.
This year CWID spanned three weeks and concluded June 22. It included more than 40 international organizations and companies with more than 80 emerging technologies selected to participate in information technology trials.
While the focus of CWID is on new and emerging technologies, CWID is also a venue for information technology development or validation of fielded or near-fielded commercial, DoD and partner systems (those already in the research and development and acquisition pipeline) to reduce fielding costs or programmed transition timelines.
CWID trials facilitate development of strategies aimed at responsibly bringing technology solutions to the DoD Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) community for consideration.
U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM), on behalf of the Chairman, is responsible for CWID oversight. In concert with interoperability trail sponsors and industry representatives, USJFCOM assists with coordinating and gathering information required to support post-execution decisions for promising solutions.
The USJFCOM Capability Development Process is the primary method used to identify candidate technologies through the CWID initial selection process and after demonstration results are formalized. The Joint Staff provides guidance for the Senior Management Group and sets the overall objectives of CWID. Objectives are linked to the Joint Battle Management Command and Control Roadmap and Joint Mission Threads.
To connect the geographically dispersed participants, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) engineered a global network during the demonstration with trial assessment nodes at: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va. (U.S. Army and Marine Corps site); Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), San Diego, Calif. (U.S. Navy site); Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. (U.S. Air Force site); and two combatant commander sites, U.S. European Command (USEUCOM), Stuttgart, Germany; and U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), Colorado Springs, Colo.
Coalition partners brought more than 25 additional sites to the temporary isolated network.
One more U.S. site on the network, newly established for the 2007 demonstration, was located in the Pentagon. The Warfighter Capability Demonstration Center (WarCap), provided an interactive window to U.S. trial sites for senior decision makers inside the Pentagon and in the Capitol region.
The overarching scenario involved coalition task force operations applicable to the global war on terrorism with terrorist backlash and natural disasters for the NORTHCOM homeland security and homeland defense (HS/HD) component. The primary mission of the HS/HD component is to deter attacks against the United States, its territories, possessions and bases and employ appropriate force should deterrence fail.
CWID investigated systems integration and interoperability solutions for first-responder agencies. This includes NORTH-COM's interagency partners, the Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety Emergency Preparedness Canada.
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