    Command, Control, & Communications (C3) CenterMobile Automated Instrumentation Suite (MAIS) Comprised of a mobile Command, Control, and Communications Center (C3 Center) and five categories of Player Units (PU) as shown on the right, MAIS is capable of supporting combined arms testing or training exercises of up to 2000 participants in real-time. MAIS provides the following core capabilities for up to 9 concurrent operators required to run an engagement scenario. MAIS needed to support tests of realistic force development in a combined arms environment. The instrumentation suite is capable of data collection, test/exercise control, and combat simulation for RTCA during force-on-force engagements. Typical training/testing will consist of a combined arms exercise including armor, mechanized infantry, logistics, engineers, field artillery, air defense artillery, minefields, aviation, and chemical weapons. MAIS has the capability to emulate threat weapons as well as friendly forces. The key opportunity for the US Army was the ability to create very realistic battlefield engagement with up to 2000 live units and 20,000 virtual units and then monitor, control, and analyze the simulated battle in real-time. The key opportunity for Riptide was to utilize our experience in developing enterprise level software to create a scaleable multi-tier architecture using next generation Java and J2EE techniques in order to provide significant cost savings to the military over a 15-year operational software lifecycle. The Development Process The Tailored Solution
After all player units have been programmed, the MAIS software records approximately one gigabyte of data per hour.The data is extracted from over 240 messages per second delivered via Radio Frequency (RF) from units active in the field. A full exercise can require up to eight individual operators with different roles to monitor and orchestrate up to 2000 moving components on the battlefield.Operator duties include monitoring system alarms, controlling exercise state, creating reports, monitoring the player network, recovering missed player events, and defining and executing CAS, minefield, indirect, and NBC missions. The definitions of these duties are tightly integrated to the main application window to provide interaction for all appropriate users of the system.
The system utilizes an intuitive workflow that guides the operators through the process of configuring the application, configuring the hardware (player units and communication devices), defining the vulnerabilities of the weapon systems, defining a force structure definition (selecting the participating units), defining an exercise definition, defining the battlefield boundaries, recording the exercise, and playback of a completed exercise for review. When practical, graphical interfaces are used to support data entry.For example, the system allows range data to be entered graphically by selecting coordinates on a map or directly entering coordinate data.The result is an accurate definition of the range with visual confirmation using a tactical display.The system collects volumes of data and stores it in an Oracle database for post processing which can then be transferred via automated means to Microsoft Office, SAS, and other third party analysis tools.
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