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USJFCOM member receives 2008 Copernicus Award

USJFCOM’s director for command and control (C2) analysis at the Joint Systems Integration Center (JSIC) is a recipient of the 2008 Copernicus Award.

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By Susy Dodson
USJFCOM Public Affairs

(SUFFOLK, Va. – March 23, 2009) –- The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the U.S. Naval Institute honored Kevin L. Marlowe, U. S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Systems Integration Center’s (JSIC) director for command and control (C2) analysis, with the 2008 Copernicus Award, in San Diego. 

The Copernicus Award, established in 1997 by retired Air Force Lt. Gen. C. Norman Wood, then president and CEO of AFCEA International and the late Navy Vice Adm. Art Cebrowski, is awarded to an individual who sustains superior performance in a command, control, communications, computers and intelligence information technology-related job.

Marine Col. Medio Monti, JSIC director, nominated Marlowe for doing ground-breaking work for the Joint Capability Development Directorate in C2 portfolio analysis. 

Monti said the C2Pedia uses a backbone similar to the popular Wikipedia web site.

 “It has produced a kind of a dictionary of command and control systems that we care about that enable the C2 portfolio manager to study the core systems in the C2 portfolio,” said Monti.

Edward D. Miller, technical director for JSIC, said Marlowe’s work with C2 systems analysis directly supports USJFCOM’s role in C2 capability portfolio management (CPM).
 
According to Miller, Marlowe developed a variety of tools such as a comparative document navigator that identifies disconnects between policy documents, a scorecard for program managers which assesses compliance with existing standards and policies, a mapping product that helps analysts visualize the relationships between the joint capability areas, the universal joint task list, systems functions, and system, and C2Pedia.

“These tools support C2 systems analysis that will allow analysts to view complex information in an easily understandable format,” Miller said.

Marlowe explains why C2Pedia is one his favorite CPM tools.

“I’m really excited about the potential of C2Pedia the web-based, user-friendly front end to our enormous knowledge base of C2 systems information,” Marlowe said. “Too often, information about systems is too hard to access, maintain, or collaborate on. 

“By building C2Pedia, providing a team of smart people to continue to improve the data and giving users the ability to correct errors and inconsistencies, I hope we make progress toward developing a widely-available source of systems information that’s better than authoritative – it should be really useful.”

Marlowe, a captain selectee in the Naval Reserve, leads one of the two Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Reserve detachments in Norfolk. 

In his spare time, Marlowe is a stroke and turn official for USA Swimming, a unit commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America, and is pursuing a doctoral degree in management.

Marlowe credits his family for his success.

“I am who I am because of the influence of my wonderful wife, kids, and parents,” Marlowe said.  “My success is a result of an amazing convergence of wonderful people, opportunities, and circumstances.  I hope that I can continue to use it to make a difference.”