xviii airborne corps g6 automation ms98v1
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XVIII Airborne Corps G6
Automation
™
February 17, 1998 Major Duane Porch
Captain Stephen Bates
Outline
XVIII Airborne Corps & the Joint Task Force Network Topology: Past, Present, Future DragonNet Future Operations Global Command and Control System Network Management Issues
XVIII Airborne Corps Today!!!
The phone rings first at Fort Bragg!!!
JTF
G2 J2
G3 J3
G6 J6
Joint Reception Center
Joint Interrogation Facility (JIF)
Joint Captured Material Exploitation Center (JCMEC)
G4 J4
Joint Operations Center (JOC) Joint Search &
Rescue Center (JSRC)
Joint Logistics Readiness Center
(JLRC) Sub-Area Petroleum
Office (SAPO)
Joint Mortuary Affairs Office
(JMAO)
Joint Movement Center (JMC)
Joint Munitions Board (JMB)
Joint Material Mgmt Center (JMMC)
Joint Military Engineer Board (JMEB)
Joint Facility Utilization Board
(JFUB)
Joint Communications Control Center
(JCCC)
Chaplain
Joint Info Bureau (JIB)
SJA
Surgeon (JMRC) (JBPC)
Headquarters Commandant
Comptroller
Joint Visitors Bureau (JVB)
G3 Plans
J5 FSE
JFCC Joint
Targeting Board (JTB)
BMC JPG
CofS
Director Joint Staff
G1 J1 Joint Intelligence
Center (JIC)
Commander
xxx XVIII
JOINT TASK FORCE Staff Organization
XVIII Airborne Corps Wide Area Network
SECRET Mobile Subscriber Local Area Net
Dragon Net
SECRET Strategic
Wide Area Net
Personnel Intelligence
Operations Logistics
JTF HQ
Mobile Subscriber Equipment Area Coverage
FES
NCS TTC-39D
TTC-39D
Ft Bragg
FES FES
Intermediate Staging Base
Objective Area
NCS NCS
NCS NCS
NCS
NCS NCS
NCS
FES
FES NCS NCS FES
FES
FES
FES
TTC-39D
NCS
FES
NCS
60-70 Km
70-8
0 Km
5,000+ Km
Div CP’s
Corps Assault
Corps Rear
Separate Bde/Bn CP’s
MSE TPN
PS
16 kbs
16 kbs 16 kbs
16 kbs
Corps Main
16 kbs
“Traditional” Mobile Subscriber Equipment Packet Switch Links
“Stuffing 64 pounds of S%*& into a 16 pound bag!!!”
PS
PS PS
PS
Aggregate Bandwidth
VTC
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
3 Mbs
LOGISTICS
FIRE SUPPORT
INTEL/SPECIAL CIRCUITS
VOICE / AUTODIN
35th Sig Bde Capabilities
1.6 Mbs
SHORTFALL = 1.4 Mbs
LOGISTICS
TOTAL ASSET
VISIBILITY
Asset Reports
IMAGERY
ABCS
TELEMED
Past Corps Tactical Network (8 Months Ago)
SIPRNET 512 Kbps 56kbps
Trojan Spirit
MSE Network
G2/G3 G1/G4/G6
Server
Server ACE
• Peer to Peer Network • Local Traffic ran over TPN • INTEL Assets separated • 10Base2 Topology
Playing “Catch-Up” Ball !!!
Interim Corps Tactical Network (0-6 months ahead)
SIPRNET 512 Kbps
56 Kbps
Trojan Spirit
Laptop NT Servers
• Exchange • IIS 4.0 • Proxy • SMS
ACE
G6
G3 BVTOC
DOCC
Warlord GCCS
G1,G4 etc.
CAT V UTP (100 m)
Router
MSE LOS Radio
HSMUX Cards 256 Kbps Data 256 Kbps VTC
Fiber (2000 m)
Dumb “10 Mbps” Hub
Smart Switches 100BaseT
Router
Router based networks
Joint Compliant Remotely configurable Allows “Internet” functionality Commercial Off the Shelf Mirrors garrison architecture Increased Network Security (Deny/allow services) Graphical Network Management tools
Div CP’s
Corps Assault
Corps Rear
Separate Bde/Bn CP’s
MSE Enhanced
TPN
256 kbs
256 kbs 256 kbs
256 kbs
Corps Main
256 kbs
Cost Effective Capability NOW With Clear Migration Path to WIN
Interim Mobile Subscriber Equipment Enhanced with HS-MUX and Routers
Router Router
Router
Router Router
DragonNet
A standards based system, connected to a classified network. DragonNet is critical to increasing
effectiveness and efficiency in the Military Decision Making Process!
So what is DragonNet, anyway?
Web based technology initiative Push verse Pull Primary means of information
dissemination Systems on classified and
unclassified networks Soldier Created, Soldier
Maintained Commercial-Off-The-Shelf
Software & Training
Network Connections
Web Browsers
Windows 95 NT Servers Clients
Clients
“This DragonNet business is the best thing you Signal folks have come up with in the last 30 years.” Lieutenant General Jack Keane Commander, XVIII Airborne Corps
Unclassified screen shot Unclassified screen shot
DragonNet Cornerstones
Messaging File Sharing
Homepages
Information
“Soldiers are our Credentials”
Network Engineers – Cisco Courses – Intro and Advanced Cisco Routers – $6,000 per soldier
Client / Server Engineers – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers – $8,000 per soldier
Email System Administrators – NT Core, Exchange Core,
Exchange Enterprise, Exchange Client
– $6,000 per soldier
XVIII Airborne Corps Future Operations
Operational Intranets: NIPRNET & SIPRNET – Dynamic, Web based (everything HTML based!!!) – Securely accessible worldwide
Tactical network an extension of the garrison network – c18.army.mil becomes c18.army.smil.mil – Routers on TPN will allow for 4th octet host addressing
G6 Network Management: 1st four layers of the OSI
U.S. Forces Command SIPRNET router installation milestones
FORT BRAGG
In Place
FORT HOOD
In Place
FORT LEWIS
In Place
FY 98 FORT STEWART
In Place
FORT DRUM
FY 98 FORT CAMPBELL
FORT SILL FY98
FORT BLISS FY98
FORT CARSON FY98
FORT RILEY FY98
FORT BENNING FY98
FORT POLK FY 98
FORT EUSTIS FY 98
FORT MCCOY FY 98
FORT DIX FY 98
Global Command and Control System
DoD C4I System Joint / Combined environment UNIX based Server NT based Clients Set of Applications System of Record Router based
“I will support only one [Joint] Command and Control System.” General Shalikashvili Chairman, JCS
Joint Staff Requires GCCS Functionality at CJTF and Component Headquarters Now.
Network Management: G6 / JCCC
Focus Area
Network Planners/Executors Must Be Able To See Entire Network 24/7 (Look, but not touch)
Fiber Routers
Telemetry
Tropo LOS
Satellite
Switches
Good C2 Leads To Good C4
Network Management: Connecting the Pieces
JTF
Reach Back
Sustaining Base
Regular Duty Days Continuous Operations 24/7 9 - 5
Network Integration Vehicle
Reduced setup time
Physically secure servers
Standard deployable configuration
Improving Network Management functionality
Issues
Internal Training
– Network Managers – Webmasters
Procure HS-MUX Cards Delineation of
responsibility – DOIM (ITBC) – G6
External TPN/SIPRNET IP naming
conventions “Do it Right!” Doctrine Deployable GCCS
Summary
XVIII Airborne Corps & the Joint Task Force Network Topology: Past, Present, Future DragonNet Future Operations Global Command and Control System Network Management
Conclusion
XVIII Airborne Corps is America’s Contingency Corps. First to fight, ready to
deploy worldwide within 18 hours. We MUST be able to provide robust and
reliable data communications. Our lives depend on it.
“Mission Critical” application has a very special meaning!
