New Army Computer System Speeds Up “Sensor to Shooter” Cycle

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Think command and control.

byKris Osborn

The Army is designing a new command-and-control networking infrastructure to connect stove-piped systems and merge them into one system that collects mapping, fires information, airspace deconfliction, force tracking technology and intelligence data.

Command Post Computing Environment (CPCE) is a developmental effort to synchronize command center mobile and fixed-site applications, such as data in vehicles or information consolidated in a forward operating base.

Currently, command-and-control elements present a complex and often hard to manage collection of systems for users and system administrators, which can challenge efforts to share combat-relevant information in real time, Lt. Col. Jack Shane Taylor, CPCE program manager, said in an interview several years ago. 

The Army anticipates having the first CPCE unit equipped by 2019.

“User interfaces in the past had to deliver all of their own infrastructure. We want to get rid of all these disparate systems and provide common architectures, a single solution which will reduce the burden we put on those networks,” Taylor said.