STOP DEN VERDENSOMSPÆMDENDE
BUSH FIRE
Hvis nogen synes, der er smidt alt for mange bomber i Iraq og andre steder, så kik her og se hvad der er gang i hos alle dem, der ikke er med os pacifister. Jeg må virkelig skamme mig over mit danske statsborgerskab. Som pacifist har jeg vist ikke meget jeg kan udrette i Irak, hvor våbenmagtens voldelige sprog er blevet det eneste der er tilbage. Nå jeg behøver nu ikke rejse så langt for Dansk våbenindustri og krigskammeraterne er kommet med på verdenskortet.
Jeg vil starte med slutningen US CENTCOM – Herfra tages beslutningerne – det er meget seriøst – læs selv hvordan det opleves af de danske officerer på stedet:
http://www.flv.dk/admins/nyheder/artikel.result.asp?id=738
Mon også de har travlt med at diskutere alt det andet der sker omkring dem? Når jeg ser det glade smil på Søren Falk-Portved ansigt, skulle man ikke tro der var noget særligt i gære derovre. Men det er der altså alligevel. Jeg vil her sende en del links til web sider ud. Simpelthen fordi dette her er så omfattende, at jeg har opgivet at gøre rede for det på dansk. Jeg håber folk der ikke kan engelsk vil spørge andre der kan, så alle kan få del i de mange hemmeligheder vores militære ledelse og politikerne har båret rundt på.
Jeg vil lige lægge ud med en lille liste over, hvad der er i kog på militærfronten:
file:///f:/egne%20dokumenter/egne%20dokumenter/WEAPONS/LISTER%20OVER%20PROGRAMMER/NSSRM%20Initiative%20List.htm
Det danske militær opbygger verdensomspændende kommunikations netværk til at kommandere, kontrollere, kommunikere, overvåge og indsamle efterretninger for vores tropper i hæren, søværnet og luftværnet.
Man kan tage en tur rundt i landet og inspicere antennerne efterhånden som de opføres. Blandt andet er der en hel park af antenner uden i Kongelunden på Aflandshage. Her er også opført nogle bygninger omgivet af et stært bevogtet hegn (stadig under konstruktion). Ude på Peberholmen.hvor Øresundsbroen passerer, kan man også snart se antennerne. Forsvarsministeriet har allerede bevilget deres opførelse ved lov og med mulighed for videreudvikling af systemet uden andre myndigheder så som frednings- og natur myndigheder får lov blande sig heri. Selvfølgelig sker alt dette, jeg havde nær sagt som sædvanlig i terror-truslens navn. På andre kasserner bliver der bygget atomsikre anlæg.
Jeg gad godt vide, hvor mange terrorister vi fanger på denne her måde, døm selv når i har læst videre:
”Forsvarsministeriet vil fortsat arbejde med opkopling af relevante operative netværk til NATO’s (NNEC – Network Enabling Capabilities) tilsvarende netværk for at sikre interoperabilitet og på sigt klargøre til netværks baserede operationer”.
Den danske våbenindustri med MÆRSK DATA DEFENCE A/S og TERMA i spidsen har kronede dage for tiden med at udvikle og producere nye kommunikationssystemer.
Odin systemet er et system med ’informationsoverlegenhed’; et ’state of the art’ C3IS (control, command, communication, intelligence and surveillance) førings- beslutningsstøtte- og kommunikationssystem til landbaserede enheder, der bla. bygger på NATO standarderne (MIP, C2EDM, APP6A og JC3EDM. ICS 2000 er et fuldt integreret kommunikationssystem, som i fremtiden vil kunne styre danske F 16 fly og fremtidens jagerfly Joint Strike Fighteren sikkert såvel som krigsskibe og landbaserede mobile radiocontainere, blot for at nævne et par eksempler.
Mærsk Data Defence A/S har bogstaveligt talt mange jern i ilden. Jeg vil ikke gå i dybden hermed, for så blev jeg aldrig færdig. Dog vil jeg lige nævne Lindø værftet og de såkaldet flex støtteskibe, der bygges derovre. Fåborg værft kan også lige komme med på listen.
”Det nye DEHAWK også kaldet Danish
Enhanched HAWK fordi væsentlige dele er dansk produceret (TERMA), har fået nye
radarer og nye mobile kontrolvogne, hvorfra luftkampen styres. De nye radar er
mere præcise end de gamle og har bedre modforanstaltninger mod elektronisk
krigsførelse. Samtidig er det blevet muligt at anvende data fra andre landes
radarsystemer.”
Kilde: Flyvematrielkommandoen <http://www.flv.dk/information/flynyt/2003/FLY%2020031%20si%2030%20-39.pdf>
De danske F-16 er ligeledes blevet opgraderet, så de kan afsende bomber af sted i al slags vejr, dag og nat. De nye smarte bomber (Joint Direct Attack Munition - JDAM er selvstyrende via signaler fra satelitter (GPS). Danmark er lead nation på JDAM området. Det finansieret af de fire F-16 nationer i Europa: Belgien, Holland, Norge og Danmark. Fuld beskrivelse af (GPS), JDAM, F-16 kan findes på:
http://gps.losangeles.af.mil/index.htm.
Mobile Control and Report Centre (Mobile CRC) eller i daglig tale Batmobilen, er et mobilt kontrol- og varslingscenter. Batmobilens deltagelse i øvelse Battle Griffin er endnu et skridt på vejen til, at det mobile center skal være fuldt operativ i 2008, som det er planlagt. http://forsvaret.dk/FTK/Nyt+og+Presse/Batmobilen+bruger+Battle+Griffin+til+egen+udvikling.htm
Defence procurement Agency i England er også klar i 2008 med de nye Astute Class ubåde - <http://www.mod.uk/dpa/news/pn2003/oct03/astute.htm>, men her vil jeg vende tilbage på et senre tidspunkt og forklare hvilke nye bomber de får med ombord, herunder de nye mini-atombomber, som altså også kan installeres på Joint Strike Fighteren til sin tid og på en række andre maskiner.
http://www.nmci.navy.mil/Secondary_Areas/FAQs/Index.htm#Q13#Q13.
Dette er en liste over forskellige sub-organisationer og opgaver disse har under NATO.
http://www.nato.int/docu/handbook/2001/hb140301.htm
Dette er EUs forsvars agentur.
http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cmsUpload/st08967.en05.pdf
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense.
General Dynamics C4 Systems, Taunton, Mass., was awarded on June 2,
2005, a $7,632,000 increment as part of a $126,672,195 cost-plus-fixed-fee,
cost-plus-award-fee, and time and materials contract for a further development
of
an initial architecture for the Warfighter Information Network - Tactical
Communication System. Work will be performed in Taunton, Mass. (75
percent) and
Gaithersburg, Md. (25 percent), and is expected to be completed by Jan. 9,
2006.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There
were
an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on April 8, 2002,
and
three bids were received. The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics
Command, Fort
Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity (DAAB07-02-C-F404). Kilde Holger Terp redactor af
Fredsakademiet.
“Europa
behøver for eksempel mere ‘command, control, and communications’ systemer, og
store kapasitet til at flytte mandskab og udstyr…Dette giver ifølge CER,
Bulletin en anledning til at kreere et Europæisk Forsvars Akademi, til at
levere almindelig uddannelses basis for officererne fra de mange EU lande”.
Dette er beskrivelsen af grundstationen til C3I – Command, Control,
Communication og efterretnings jord stationer – Joint STARS. <http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/jstars-gsm.htm>
(fuld beskrivelse nedenfor).
<http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm34-25-1/Ch2.htm#s2>
Hærens luftbårne commando: <http://www.raytheon.com/products/static/node3405.html>
GSM overfører data fra Joint STARS fly Commanders Tactical Terminals
(CTT), Joint Tactical Terminal
(JTT) og ubemandede fly fartøjer og videresender bearbejdede efterretninger, kampledelse
og mål data til hærens Kommando, Kontrol og kommunikations og Efterretnings
(C3I) enhed.. Dette muliggør integreret kamp styring, overvågning, målsøgning
og sammenført planlægning kan udføres med brug af næsten real time
informationer.
Den kommende GSM – også kendt som Common
Ground Station (CGS) er den næste generation af efterretnings og elektronisk
krigsførelse (IEW) system….En serie af forberedte produkt forbedringer (P31)
vil tilføje yderligere sensor interfaces og data ’correlation’ bearbejdnings muligheder
til CGS.
GSM kan videregive information til dets
støttende enheder, til E-8 eller andre GSM via stemmel, landlinier, UHF, VHF,
SATCOM, cell-telefon m.m.
Det fremtidige system vil blive en
almindelig grund station - Block
II Common Ground Station (CGS). Self-Defence Suite kapacitet (SDS) om bord på
E-8 er designet til at levere nogle målinger af forsvar mod luft og jord
angreb. SDS yder flybesætningen kontinuerlig situations opmærksomhed … og
beskyttelse mod flere typer af luft – og jord affyrede missiler. Det modtager
trussel informationer over JTIDS og konstant kildemateriale terminaler fra
blandt andet AWACS, luftbårne kommando og kontrol center (ABCCC), RIVET JOINT
og jordbaserede sensorer og C3I enheder.
AWACS – <http://www.e3a.nato.int/info/NSUPO/Default.htm>:
NATO Airborne Early Warning Force (NAEWF). NATO
Airborne Early Warning commando styrke har hovedkvarter i Mons i Belgien hos Supreme Headquaters
Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).
Idag har NATO oprettet AWACS (Airbourne Early Warning Force) i Geilenkirchen, Tyskland (kaldet E-3A). Dette er en MOB (Main Operation Base). Denne base ligger tæt ved den Hollandske grænse. Her arbejder 25 danske militær folk. Derudover er 3 personer tilknyttet Det Danske Element.
I nærheden på den Hollandske side af grænsen ligger NATO’s regionale hovedkvarter JOINT FORCE COMMAND HEADQUATERS og AWACS Programme Management Agency, kun 30 minuters kørsel fra Belgien (hvor NATO’s hovedkvarter er beliggende) og to timers kørsel fra Frankrig og Luxembourgh.
Udover MOB er der tilknyttet 4 fremskudte baser – Forward Operating Bases, hvortil der regelmæssigt foretages opstillinger af missiler (deployment). De fire fremskudte baser er beliggende i :
*Aktion i Grækenland
*Konya i Tyrkiet
*Oerland i Norge
*Trapani i Italien
NATO’s fortsatte tilstedeværelse i Afghanistan (ISAF) og Iraq for at indføre demokrati og frihed har fået NATO ledelsen til at oprette flere skoler for personel.
Iraq Training Mission, Iraq (NTM-I) vil bestå af 300 personer, der skal træne Iraks sikkerheds styrker.
En ny skole i Oberammergau vil træne NATO’s personel ved hjælp af den seneste informations teknologi. Projektet vil gøre det muligt for NATO’s hærledere og soldater samt ”partnere fra andre lande” at holde trit med de fremtidige krav til samarbejde under fælles operationer.
Mons, Belgien: Begrebet SHAPE = ”Surpreme Headquaters Allied Powers Europe” dækker over det område udenfor Mons, hvor
SHAPE
staben De nationale militære
”National Military Representatives” (NMR),
”Combined
Joint Planning Staff” (CJPS),
”NATO
Airbourne Early Warning Force Command” (NAEWFC),
”Partnership
Coordination Cell (PCC) og
”Regional
Signal Group SHAPE” (RSGS)
Samt ”tilhørende støttefunktioner” er placeret.
SHAPE er under ledelse af Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones, Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe. Han udtaler:
”INDSÆTTELSE AF STYRKER UDENFOR EUROPA ’er konceptet, der får os væk fra det statiske 20 århundredes defensive tilstand som karateriserede allincen siden dens dannelse i 1949’.
NATO blev dannet for at give et værn mod potentiel Sovjetisk aggresion mod Vesteuropa. Men siden skiftet i Sovjet Unionen i 1991 og fremkomsten af asymetriske trusler personificeret ved terrorist angreb på USA og andre steder, har ledere eftertrykkeligt bedt NATO om at transformere og blive mere flexibel og hurtigt udrykkende....”
NATO’s udryknings styrke vil transformere alliancen. Den nye styrke er blevet dannet med henblik på operationer udenfor NATO’s eget område – Out of Area operations.
4. marts 2005 i Washington udtaler Supreme Allied Commander US Marine Corps General James L Jones til Gerry J. Gilmore: ”Den nye NATO ekspeditionsstyrke har brug for visse indbyggede kapaciteter, der kan transformeres, så som et integreret efterretnings center”. Senior US regerings og allierede ledere har for nylig rejst den ide at NATO tropper måske vil blive sendt til Mellemøsten for at være stødpude mellem israelitterne og palæstinenserne.
<http://www.nato.int/shape/news/2005/03/i0500304a.htm>
SHAPE er også EU Operation Headquater (OHQ)
EU’s
Command Element er i JFC (Joint Force Command i Italien).
EU’s Operations kommandør (EU op Cdr) støttes af hele EU Operation Headquater (OHQ), hvori EU staff Group (EUSG) danner hele kernen i EU’s operations Hovedkvarter EU OHQ.
EUSG bliver ledet af en svensk officer og er sammensat af medlemmer fra Østrig, Belgien, Tyskland, Grækenland, Irland, Italien, Nederlandene, Spanien, Sverige og Storbritannien.
Hvert land har sin ekspert til forskellige funktioner – personel, efterretningstjeneste, logistik, strategisk planlægning, CIS, finans- og jurister, der sluttelig vil støtte udvikling af planerne for operationen og derefter selve operationen.
Kommandoer fra EU Operation Headquater (OHQ) vil f.eks. blive sendt via JFC i Italien og EUFOR HQ i Sarajevo, som derefter kan søge efterretninger og kommandere rundt med tropperne på Balkan.
Joint Warfare Center
Stavanger: Ved NATO’s sidste omstrukturering blev JCN den 23. oktober 2003 nedlagt og samme dag oprettedes det fælles Krigsførelses Center: Joint Warfare Center (JWC). JWC er placeret sammen - og integreret med Forsvarets Operative Hovedkvarter (FOHK). (eng. National Joint Headquaters Norway). Der er ni nationer tilknyttet til JWC. Danmark er kun repræsenteret med få personer. I alt 280 personer vil skulle gøre tjeneste ved JWC, når JWC 1. juli 2006 er fuldt operativt. For tiden er der 9 nationer tilknyttet JWC. Disse er Canada, Danmark, England, Holland, Norge, Polen, Tyrkiet, Tyskland og USA. USA, Tyskland og England er hovedaktørerne, mens Danmark, Canada og Holland kun spiller biroller. Opgaverne er fælles eksperimenter, udvikling af nye doktriner, træning på Skolen i Portugal og Polen, for at lære at lave analyser af, hvorledes man samarbejder om at dræbe flest mulige med det mest avancerede og sofistikerede våbenarsenal nogensinde i verdenshistorien (hvortil kommer at kunne gøre det så billigt som muligt).
På det strategiske plan er der kun en kommando med operationelt ansvar, Allied Command Operations kommanderet af den øverste allierede kommandør i Europa (Supreme Allied Commander Europe SACEUR) – tidligere Allied Command Europe og Allied Command Atlantic.
SACEUR fortsætter med at have to kasketter på som Commander US European Command. Bemærk det lille US foran betegnelsen.
Hertil kommer en helt ny ”funktional command”, Allied Command Transformation (ACT) som bliver kommanderet af Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT).
ACTC blev dannet for at tage ansvaret for at promovere og holde øje med den fortsatte omdannelse af Alliancens styrker og formåen. SACT vil også få to kasketter som Commandor, US Joint Forces Command for tiden Adm. Michael G. Mullen. Den får hjemsted i Nordfolk, US: træning, forbedre yde evne, teste og udvikle doktriner og udføre eksperimenter for at tilføje nye koncepter og så videre...
ACT inkluderer det fælles krigs center i Norge (Joint Warfare Centre), det ny Joint Force Traning Centre i Polen og det fælles Analyse og erfaringscenter i Portugal Joint Analysis and Lesson Learned Centre). Headquaters Supreme Allied Command Transformation (HQSACT) leder også det undersøiske Research Center i La Spezia, Italien. Der er direkte forbindelse mellem ACT, Alliance Schools og NATO agenturer så vel som mellem US Joint Forces Command.
Foruden de to Joint Force Command i Brunssum i Holland og Naples i Italien bliver der en også en Joint Command i Lisabon i Portugal, hvorfra et spredt sø-baseret ’command joint task force’ (CJTF) hovedkvarterers kapasitet kan blive trukket.
I tillæg til disse ovennævnte komponenter vil der blive dannet fire faste kombinerede operations centre (Combined Air Operations Centers (CAOC’s):
*Uedem, Tyskland
*Finderup, Danmark
*Poggio Renatico, Italien
*Larissa, Grækenland
Og to der kan indsættes i Uedem og Poggio Renatico, samt en base i Torrejon Air base i Spaniener vil lægge faciliteter til træning af de spredte styrkers evne til at mobilisere og indsætte militære isenkram.
Ikke så indviklet endda. Det er i hvert fald helt sikkert at tropperne er rykket i stilling, bliver trænet og udstationeres. Spørgsmålet er bare hvor og til hvad? Efter Iraq krigen skulle man tro de gale krigere havde fået nok drab pr. investeret $, men det var desværre kun toppen af isbjerget. Krigen mod terror fortsætter i det uendelige.
Hvis nogen stadig gider mere, så check lige denne side, her kan du selv vælge målet for en bunker buster bombe, og se effekten heraf på en by i USA;
<http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=367>
Det er en helt ny verdensorden, men ikke en verdensorden jeg har lyst til at leve med. Det er nødvendigt med en hel ny verden, hvor alle disse planer bliver skrottet nu; hvor vores politikere bliver stillet til ansvar for deres fortsatte medvirken til tortur og krigsforbrydelser og forbrydelser mod menneskeheden. Det er nødvendigt at få lavet lovene om, så de igen beskytter borgerne og ikke den internationale sværvægter industri og våbengiganterne; Dette er nødvendigt at få renset vores jord for radioaktivt affald og at få alle atomvåben helt afskaffet inden vi igangsætter produktionen af den næste generation af atomvåben. Dette er nødvendigt at skabe en retfærdig verden, hvor vi borgere kan og skal leve fredeligt sammen. En verden, hvor grådighed bliver straffet hårdere end de mennesker, der har måttet leve i fattigdom, sult og nød.
STOP BUSH, NATO, EU i deres militær kup. – NU eller aldrig. Der må nye politikere til. Ingen befolkning skal stå model til så mange løgne over så mange år fra de personer der er givet magt i tillid til at vi lever i et demokrati.
Hele beskrivelsen fra http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/jstars-gsm.htm
Joint STARS
Ground Stations (JSTARS-GSM)
The Joint
Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) Ground Station Module
(GSM) is a Mobile Multisensor Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) tactical data
processing and evaluation center. The GSM is a subcomponent of a joint Army/Air
Force program whose other major component is the E-8 airborne platform. The
Joint STARS system is designed to detect, locate and track moving and
stationary ground equipment targets located beyond the Forward Line of Troops
(FLOT). The GSM processes data from the Joint STARS aircraft Commanders
Tactical Terminals (CTT), Joint Tactical Terminal (JTT), and Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAV) and disseminates intelligence, battle management and targeting
data to Army Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) nodes via
lan, wire or radio. This enables integrated battle management, surveillance,
targeting and interdiction plans to be developed/executed using near real-time
data.
The
follow-on GSM, also known as the Common Ground Station (CGS), is the next
generation Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW) system. Leveraging off the
GSM open architecture the CGS will incorporate secondary Imagery Dissemination
(SIDs) and other sensor data providing tactical commanders a comprehensive and
common view of the battlefield to aid in battle management, intelligence, and
targeting operations. The CGS is also currently in LRIP. A series of
Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) are scheduled to add additional sensor
interfaces and data correlation processing capabilities to the CGS.
TRANSPORTATION
CHARACTERISTICS / LIMITATIONS: The MGSM is C-17, C-141, and C5 transportable
and is sling loadable via CH-47D. The LGSM and CGS are transportable like the
MGSM and additionally are drive on C-130 transportable and can be sling loaded
by a CH-53E.
HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND:
May 82
USDRE directed joint program combining AF's PAVE MOVER and Army's SOTAS
programs.
Nov 90 GSMs
fielded to Operation Desert Storm.
Sep 93 MGSM
LRIP contract awarded.
Jul 95 LGSM
LRIP contract awarded.
Dec 95 CGS
LRIP contract awarded.
Dec 95
LGSM/MGSMs fielded to Operation Joint Endeavor.
REQUIREMENTS
DOCUMENT: ROC approved Apr 86; JSOR approved Nov 92; Revised ROC approved Nov
92.
TYPE
CLASSIFICATION: All GSMs currently designated Limited Procurement. TC Standard
(Milestone III Scheduled 3Q98).
EVENT
SCHEDULE FISCAL YEAR 96 97 98 99 00 01
QTR 1
2 3 4 1
2 3 4 1
2 3 4 1
2 3 4 1
2 3 4 1
2 3 4
MGSM: LRIP
Phase -------3
FUE 4
Fielding 2--------- ----2
LGSM: LRIP ----------- ----------- ---------3
Fielding
EMD/LRIP 2------4 4--- ---------3
CGS:
Production 1--------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
FUE
4
Fielding
2--------- ----------- ----------- -----------
Joint STARS
Ground Station Module (GSM)
AN/TSQ-132(V)1,
Interim Ground Station Module (IGSM)
AN/TSQ-132(V)2,
Limited Procurement Urgent (LPU) GSM
AN/TSQ-178,
Light Ground Station Module
Joint STARS
is a joint Army-Air Force wide-area- surveillance system that provides battle
management and targeting information. It supports situation development and
targeting of mobile and fixed ground targets and slow moving rotary wing
aircraft. Joint STARS consists of an Air Force E8C aircraft and Army GSMs. Two
separate GSM configurations exist. The Medium GSM (MGSM) is housed in a
Standard S280 shelter and mounted on a 5-ton truck. A lightweight, rapidly
deployable variant, the Light GSM (LGSM) is housed in a Lightweight
Multipurpose Shelter (LMS) and mounted on a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled
Vehicle (HMMWV). The Light Ground Station Module (AN/TSQ-178) provides acurate
fixed and moving target locations, speed and direction of movement and
classification of tracked/wheeled vehecles via J-STARS downlink. The MGSM and
LGSM have completed Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), and are
currently in Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP).
The E8C
collects MTI, FTI and SAR radar data using a multimode radar. The Army’s GSMs
receive and analyze the radar imagery data from the E8C. They are capable of
receiving imagery from the Army’s UAV-SR and SIGINT data through the Commanders
Tactical Terminal (CTT). The GSMs are distributed to all echelons brigade and
above. It supports surveillance, intelligence, targeting and battle management
functions with NRT interactive displays which can be reproduced on a remote
terminal. The operator provides accurate fixed and moving target locations,
speed, target classification, and direction of movement. The GSM is equipped
with standard tactical communications, secure commercial communications and
dedicated TACFIRE and ASAS digital links using preformatted auto-filled message
formats. The E8C/GSM data link is a wideband, anti-jam, Two way data link. Requests
for special radar products are requested through this data link. The E8C and
GSMs are also linked through secure UHF and VHF radios.
Basis of
Issue: 6 per DIV, 6 Per Corps, 2 per EAC, 1 Per ACR
SYSTEM
SUMMARY
FEATURES:
• .
Situation development
• .
Battle management
• .
Targeting
• .
Force protection
• .
Limited BDA/TDA
• .
Operations Planning
PHYSICAL
PARAMETERS:
• .
Light - 2xHMMWV & shelter
• .
Medium - 2x5-Ton, shelter & 30Kw
PERFORMANCE
AND CHARACTERISTICS:
• .
Joint STARS data:
o '
Wide area surveillance
§ -
MTI
o '
Small area surveillance
§ -
Sector search
§ -
Target classification
§ -
Attack planning
§ -
Attack control
§ -
Target tracking
§ '
Fixed Tgt Indicator
§ '
Syn Aperture Radar • .
UAV Data:
o '
Electro Optical
o '
Thermal(IR)
• .
SIGINT Data,(CTT):
o ' TIBS,TRIXS,TRAP, & TADIXS-B
• .
Interoperability:
o '
TACFIRE/AFATDS
o '
ASAS
o '
Standard Tactical Comms
o '
Commercial Comms
o '
Secure FAX
• .
Operations:
o '
Display/manipulate multi-sensor data
o '
Remote Display
o '
Interactive Data Link
o '
Color Hardcopy Imagery
o '
B&W Hardcopy Reports
o '
Msn History Replay
o '
Electronic Maps
o '
GPS
o '
Graphics, targeting, track display & tgt files
AN/TSQ-179
Joint STARS Common Ground Station (CGS)
Joint STARS
Common Ground Station (CGS) is a product improvement of the LGSM. It includes
all the functionality of the LGSM plus extensive technological improvements. It
incorporates additional mission functionality into a fully mobile targeting,
battlefield management, and surveillance system. It receives, manipulates,
displays, stores, and disseminates Joint STARS, UAV, Army AVN, SIGINT,
broadcast intelligence and secondary imagery from tactical, theater and
national systems. The CGS is designed to operate on the move and at a secret
collateral level. It interfaces with ACE, TOC, aviation and artillery nodes. The
CGS has a robust suite of modern communications which include SATCOM and CTT. CGS
facilitates intelligence, surveillance, targeting and other battle management
operations. It provides the force with a fully scalable, tailorable, mobile,
and responsive sensor data processing capability to satisfy operational and
tactical requirements. The system’s open architecture allows performance
improvements and physical downsizing through insertion of evolving
communications and computer technology.
Joint
STARS) Common Ground Station (CGS), nomenclatured as Target Acquisition
Subsystem AN/TSQ-179(V)1, provides support to Army field commanders by
simultaneously receiving, processing, displaying, manipulating, storing,
retrieving, and disseminating information to intelligence, fire support and
command and control elements from Brigade to Echelons Above Corps (EAC).
The CGS
receives Imagery-Intelligence (IMINT), Electronics-Intelligence (ELINT), and
Communications-Intelligence (COMINT) information of enemy forces across the
forward line of own troops via multiple sensors and Intelligence Broadcast
Networks (IBNs). IMINT sensor interfaces of the CGS include Joint STARS,
secondary image dissemination, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) (both video
and telemetry). ELINT and COMINT data from IBNs is accessed through the
Commanderís Tactical Terminal (CTT)/Joint Tactical Terminal (JTT). Data sources
include the Joint STARS aircraft, Guardrail, U2, Rivet Joint, UAV Ground
Control Station (UAV GCS), Apache Longbow, and Airborne Reconnaissance Low
(ARL). Global Positioning System (GPS) provides the CGS with current time and
location, which is the basis for correlation of sensor and IBN data.
CGS output,
in Tactical Fire Direction System/Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System
(TACFIRE/AFATADS) or All Source Analysis System (ASAS) message format, is
provided to command, control, communications and intelligence nodes via secure
or non-secure wire or radio. This enables the development and execution of
plans for integrated battle management, surveillance, targeting, and
interdiction.
Logistics
The CGS can
be transported worldwide. Methods for transporting the CGS include air (C-130,
C-141, C-17 and C-5 aircraft; CH-47D and CH-53E helicopters), water (LACV-30
and larger vessels; amphibious crafts such as LCUs), rail (standard flat cars),
and ground. A CGS, fully manned with a crew of six operators, is capable of
operating 24 hours a day, with up to 1.5 hours per day for system preventive
maintenance and displacement.
The CGS is
supportable using standard Army logistics. All integrated standard military
items (i.e., Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)) are maintained in accordance
with the maintenance concept established within the published technical manuals
of those items. For unique CGS design items, to include integrated
Non-Developmental Items (NDI)/Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) items, the
following procedures are used:
1. Unit
Level: Equipment maintenance is performed at the lowest practical echelon using
personnel trained in the appropriate Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). At
unit level, 90% of all faults are isolated to the Line Replaceable Unit (LRU),
principally by the operator (MOS 96H) using built-in test or direct
observation. The Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) at the unit level is 30 minutes or
less.
2. Direct
Support (DS): DS contact teams repair or exchange circuit card assemblies,
modules, or LRUs and fault isolate and repair or replace LRUs associated with
the 10% of faults not isolated at unit level. Contact teams are comprised of
MOS 33T, Electronic Warfare/Intercept Tactical Equipment Repairers, and other
maintenance specialty personnel as needed. Under normal conditions, 100% of all
faults are resolved on-site between the unit and DS levels. The MTTR at DS is 1
hour or less.
3. General
Support (GS): There are no tasks identified for GS maintenance. However, GS may
provide a backup capability to DS by performing limited off-equipment repairs,
in addition to go/no-go tests to verify that items are unserviceable. Items
repaired by GS would normally be returned to the supply system. Repairs beyond
the capabilities of DS/GS will be evacuated to the depot level.
4. Depot:
A five year warranty is established for the CGS. The warranty begins at
Government acceptance of each CGS and covers all unique components
(developmental and NDI/COTS) provided by the CGS contractor. The warranty also
covers the integration of GFE into the CGS, but does not extend to the GFE
itself. To cover maintenance and supply requirements beyond the scope of the
warranty, Contractor Logistics Support is planned for depot support of the CGS.
A primary
goal of the CGS program was to develop a fully capable ground station with a
support system that would meet all system requirements at reduced acquisition
costs and minimal life cycle (operation and support) cost. This was
accomplished through the maximization of NDI/COTS hardware and software and
reuse of technical data and functional capabilities previously developed for
the Joint STARS Medium Ground Station Module (MGSM) and Light Ground Station
Module (LGSM).
Physical
Description and Functionality
A CGS
system consists of a mission vehicle, lightweight multipurpose shelter
containing mission equipment, support vehicle, and two trailer mounted
generators. The mission and support vehicles, which tow the trailers, are heavy
variant High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs). The CGS can
deploy from movement to operation in 15 minutes, using only the six crew
members.
Each CGS
contains a Remote Workstation (RWS) in the truck cab and connections for
interfacing up to four other RWSs at remote locations. The RWS has the same
functional capabilities as the internal CGS operator workstation, in addition
to providing CGS functions for in-unit training (e.g., CGS sensor and message
traffic stimulation and other training functions). The RWS modes of operation
are remote mode, training mode, and CGS workstation mode. In remote mode, all
the capabilities of internal workstations are available, except transmitting
intelligence, targeting, and tasking messages. Training mode is operation of
the RWS as a lesson control workstation for in-unit training. The CGS
workstation mode provides all the capabilities of an internal CGS workstation,
except audio. The RWS also provides an interface for additional displays.
CGSs can
function independently or may be interconnected to other CGSs over a fiber
optic local area network. When interconnected, their multiple databases can be
integrated. The CGS hardware and software architectures also facilitate
Pre-Planned Product Improvements (P3I), such as additional sensor interfaces,
additional command and control interfaces, enhanced processing and display
capabilities, and growth to other platforms via technology insertion. Standards
for the CGS automated data processing architecture comply with Army C4I
Technical Architecture standards.
The
following summarizes some of the major CGS functional capabilities:
1. simultaneous
and independent asynchronous receipt, storage, and display of sensor data from
multiple sensors and Intelligence Broadcast Networks (IBNs) on each operator
display, including:
2. Joint
STARS Moving Target Indicator (MTI), Fixed Target Indicator (FTI), and
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery
3. correlated
Tactical Reconnaissance Intelligence Exchange System (TRIXS), Tactical
Information Broadcast Service (TIBS), Tactical and Related Applications (TRAP)
and Tactical Data Information Exchange System-B (TADIX-B) IBN data
4. Unmanned
Aerial Vehicle (UAV) video and graphical telemetry data
5. Secondary
Imagery Dissemination (SID) imagery and data
6. Apache
Longbow MTI
7. electronic
map backgrounds from Defense Mapping Agency products (Compressed Arc Digitized
Raster Graphics (CADRG) map data and Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED))
8. incoming
and outgoing messages
9. maintain
spatial relationships of simultaneously displayed data from multi-mode sensors
10. manipulation
of on-screen data (e.g., generating graphical overlays, automatic target
tracking, target prediction, single frame, time compression, and time
integration of imagery data)
11. display
sensor positions
12. relay
Joint STARS data to other CGSs via Trojan Spirit and UHF SATCOM
13. secure
and non-secure radio and phone communications among CGS operators, Joint STARS
aircraft, GSM operators, and Army command and control systems
14. transfer
CGS database contents to other designated CGSs
15. on-line
storage and archive storage capabilities for sensor data
16. on-the-move
operations
17. utilize
Global Positioning System (GPS) for current time and location
18. print
and fax on-screen imagery data and messages
The CGS has
a 158 hour mean time between failures, at an 80% confidence level. This
includes all hardware failures (except Government furnished equipment) and
software failures that result in the loss of a performance or interface
requirement. The operational availability of the CGS is 0.80, which includes
all hardware failures and software failures that result in the loss of a
performance or interface requirement.
SYSTEM
SUMMARY
FEATURES:
• .
Situation development
• .
Battle management
• .
Targeting
• .
Force protection
• .
Limited BDA/TDA
• .
Operations Planning
PHYSICAL
PARAMETERS:
• .
Light - 2xHMMWV & shelter
PERFORMANCE
AND CHARACTERISTICS:
• .
Joint STARS Data:
o '
Wide area surveillance
o -
MTI
o '
Small area surveil
o -
Sector search
o -
Target classification
o -
Attack planning
o -
Attack Control
o '
Fixed Tgt Indicator
o ' Syn Aperture Radar
• .
UAV/Army AVN Data:
o '
Electro Optical
o '
Thermal (IR) • .
SIGINT Data, CTT 3 channel:
o '
TRIXS, TRAP, TADIXS-B,
o TIBS,
& GPL
• .
OTHER:
o '
Secondary Imagery
o '
U2/TRI MTI/Imagery
• .
Interoperability:
o '
TACFIRE/AFATDS
o ASAS/TROJAN/GBCS/JDISS/
o A2C2/Other
o '
Standard Tactical Comms
o '
Commercial Comms
o '
Secure FAX
• .
Operations:
o '
Same as LGSM
o '
Remote Work Station
o '
Interactive Data Link
o '
Color Hardcopy Imagery
o '
B&W Hardcopy Reports
o '
Msn History Replay
o '
Graphics, E Maps, GPS, Track Display, Tgt Files
Key Events
Dec 95 CGS
Contract Award (for 18 systems; total quantity with options is 137 systems)
Mar 97
Reliability Qualification Test (RQT)
May 97
Software Qualification Test (SQT)
Sep 97
Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E)
3QFY97
Start of CGS LRIP Delivery
3QFY98
Milestone III Decision
The total
planned buy is 20 Air Force aircraft, 95 GSMs for the Army, and 2 GSMs for the
Marine Corps. When completely fielded, the GSM will be the most numerous
military intelligence end-item in the Army, located from maneuver brigade up
through echelons above corps (EAC). Current fielding plans call for each
division to have six GSMs; corps will have seven GSMs ( 6 per Corps and 1 per
Armored Cavalry Regiment), and each EAC MI Brigade will have two. CGSs will be
fielded to Military Intelligence (MI) brigades at EAC, MI Battalions (BN) at
corps, and division headquarters companies and artillery units at both corps
and division. CGSs will be located at Corps Tactical Operations Centers (CTOC)
and Corps Artillery Tactical Operations Centers (ATOC). CGSs at corps artillery
will support Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) tactical operations centers.
CGSs at divisions will be located at Division Tactical Operations Centers
(DTOC), Division Artillery (DIVARTY), and each brigade operations center.
The current
Ground Station Modules/Common Ground Stations (GSM/CGS) BOI (Basis of Issue) Plan
is 1 GSM/CGS per Corps Artillery HHB and 1 per FA Bde HHB. Doctrinal
requirements are 1 per Corps Arty HHB, 2 per FA Bde HHB, and 1 per DIVARTY HHB.
US Army Field Artillery School [USAFAS] TDA also requires one set for training
purposes. The total shortfall is 59 GSM/CGS (17 AC and 42 RC). Two GSM/CGS per
FA Bde provides the necessary flexibility to conduct counterfire and deep
battle responsibilities. A GSM/CGS at DIVARTY TOC enables real-time
identification of high pay-off targets and supports fire support and targeting
functions. However, this allocation has been disapproved, and the quantity and
distribution of the GSM/CGS will be relooked in FORCE XXI AWE.
Potential future JSTARS GSM improvements were evaluated in JWID-97. As part of a combined demonstration plan, the Time Critical Targeting Aid (TCTA) and the JSTARS Imagery Geolocational Improvement (JIGI) software seek to enhance the value of JSTARS data within the AOC and other users for Theater Missile Defense (TMD) and the application of stand-off weapons. TCTA, an intelligence and targeting operations tool, combines in a single display DSP, SIGINT and other intelligence information with JST