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USJFCOM signs cooperative research and development agreement with Raytheon

U.S. Joint Forces Command signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Raytheon to collaborate and conduct basic, applied and advanced research to address some of the challenges joint warfighters face in the urban environment. Robert Pursell has the story.

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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Mark Williams, the Joint Technology and Simulation division deputy chief

Pursell:  U.S. Joint Forces Command signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Raytheon earlier this week to take on some of the difficult and emerging challenges joint warfighters face in the urban environment.

The CRADA between USJFCOM and Raytheon is a two-year cooperative agreement, with three one-year options, focused on developing a nationally accessible operations-oriented test bed for exploration and rapid deployment of net-centric capabilities and components for use in urban environments.

Dr. Russ Richards, who heads the USJFCOM Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA), explained the importance of this CRADA.

Russ Richards: "Joint Forces Command is the executive agent for joint urban operations and to really explore new concepts and new capabilities that support urban operations we need to do experimentation.  But, we don’t have a place that we can do live experimentation very well. This CRADA will be partnering with Raytheon, but there are other players working with both us and Raytheon to develop this true live urban operations test bed up in Indiana."

Pursell:  The test bed involved in the agreement is the Indiana National Guard’s Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, a complete town consisting of approximately 70 buildings, a hospital, power station, and subterranean tunnels located on a thousand acres of rural, isolated property in the heart of Indiana that will be used for training.

For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on the web at www.jfcom.mil.

For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I’m Robert Pursell.