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Command completes three-week communication exercise U.S. Joint Forces Command communicators and personnel from across the government and other countries recently participated in a three-week exercise designed to improve joint and coalition communications abilities. • Comment on this article at USJFCOMLive

Coalition Warfighter Interoperability Demonstration

The Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) is a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff annual event that features interoperability trials focused on selected core objectives defined by combatant commanders.

Selected trials provide new capabilities or improve on existing capabilities. The demonstration tests and evaluates technologies and capabilities for exchanging information among agencies, services and this year's host combatant commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command.

U.S. Joint Forces Command is responsible for planning and execution oversight of CWID. The command targets information technologies that can be moved into operational use within 18 months. The Defense Information Systems Agency manages day-to-day program operations, directs the demonstration's execution and engineers the demonstration network.

CWID investigates command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions to enhancing coalition interoperability and allow a standard procedure for information sharing between coalition partners.

CWID's scenario has two parts: one for the combined task force (CTF) and one for homeland security and homeland defense (HLS/HLD).

For the CTF portion, CWID provides a framework for military operations conducted by U.S. and coalition forces. CTF operations are set in a notional context in fictitious countries.

For the HLS/ HLD portion, federal, state and local agencies respond to terrorist attacks in the United States, tied to the conventional U.S. -led CTF operations on another continent.

U.S. Northern Command manages the HLS/HLD portion of the demonstration. The command uses CWID as a proving ground for emerging technology application through the entire spectrum of first responders.

Multinational participants include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and many NATO nations. There are more than 20 international participants at more than 25 sites around the world.

The demonstration runs over the Combined Federated Battle Laboratories Network classified network and the Defense Information System Network - Leading Edge Services unclassified network. The events-driven network has an architecture that enables controlled and protected communications as prescribed by operational requirements and national security policies.