Role of the Coalition Warrior Interopeorability Demonstration in the Canadian Forces Joint Experimentation Program

摘要

From its initial charter in 2001, the Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre (CFEC) inherited the responsibility for managing the Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID) program within Canada. With three years of experience coordinating JWID, while conducting a program of national and international experiments, it is timely to review the role of this event in CFEC's strategic plan, the Canadian Forces Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Plan (CF JCD&E Plan). This paper presents a strategy for integrating the JWID, renamed Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) in 2005, into the CF JCD&E Plan using two trials from the JWID in 2004 as case studies. These trials were sponsored by the Air Force and Defence Intelligence and used Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) technologies. The Portal-to-Portal Interoperability Trial used a situational awareness portal developed by the COP 21 (Common Operational Picture 21st Century) Technology Demonstration. The Collaborative Operations Planning System Trial tested a prototype for providing the ability to plan an operation in a net-enabled environment using integrated collaborative tools. This paper concludes with discussion of a strategy for using a program designed to trial and demonstrate technologies nearly ready for operational use in a Joint Concept Development and Experimentation program with a mandate to support transformation.