DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Integration of C4ISR Capabilities

DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with members of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics center (CERDEC). David Jimenez, Associate Director of Systems Engineering and Jason Sypniewski, chief for CERDEC’s C4ISR & Network Modernization Integrated Event Design and Analysis Branch will discuss the Army’s efforts to integrate C4ISR capabilities (such as sensors, transport, application and data fusion systems) during the early stages of R&D. CERDEC is the Army's main developer, supplier, and integrator of C4ISR into Army Systems and Platforms. Additionally, Jimenez and Sypniewski will discuss evaluating interoperability, spectrum constraints, security, power draw, cognitive impact and other human, environmental and technical factors associated with the SoS approach. The Army network of the future will be a system-of-systems, so it is paramount that capabilities and systems be integrated and assessed in a relevant environment early in their development process in order to see how they will perform together.