PM MC - Project Manager Mission Command

Mission

Provides Integrated Mission Command Capabilities, training and support to the Joint Land Component Warfighter. Project Manager Mission Command's (PM MC's) products enable Warfighters to plan, execute and synchronize tactical and operational warfighting functions to include maneuver, fires, sustainment, airspace management, and air defense. PM Mission Command also procures a common hardware computing baseline used by a broad range of Army products.

Description

PM MC develops, deploys and sustains integrated Mission Command software capabilities to the Army and Joint forces. PM MC supports the Warfighter by ensuring units are efficiently fielded, effectively trained and professionally supported. Successful implementation requires a disciplined and responsive development process that focuses on both near-term deliveries to current software baselines and longer-term development that sets conditions for enhanced Warfighter effectiveness. PM MC focuses its efforts on providing rapid delivery of capability to the field through software development, which allows constant interaction with the users to help maintain operational relevancy. These interactions have been vital to help identify and provide solutions to current challenges.

PM MC Family

PM MC provides many operationally relevant capabilities to the Warfighter. PM MC's product offices are Tactical Mission Command (TMC), Fire Support Command and Control (FSC2), Sustainment Command and Control C2, Strategic Mission Command (SMC), Common Hardware Systems (CHS) Single Interface to the Field (SIF), and GCCS-A/J2.

  • Tactical Mission Command provides Army and joint community commanders and their staff a human-centered collaborative capability with integrated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), a user-defined common operational picture (COP) and real-time situational awareness. Products include Command Workstation, Command Web, CPOF, and Personal Assistant that Learns (PAL).
  • Fire Support Command and Control provides lethal and non-lethal fires through products including Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS), Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (JADOCS), Pocket-Sized Forward Entry Device (PFED), Lightweight Forward Entry Device (LFED), CENTAUR (Lightweight Tactical Fire Direction System) and Gun Display Unit- Replacement (GDU-R).
  • Sustainment C2 provides integrated logistics and control (C2) functionality onto a common Battle Command architecture and provides critical logistics C2 to joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational (JIM) users, using BCS3 and BCS3 Node Management (BCS3-NM) products.
  • Strategic Mission Command is the Army Battle Command System (ABCS) component providing Army, Joint, and Coalition Commanders with critical planning and situational awareness capabilities. Strategic Mission Command provides operational and strategic tools enabling the Army to bring the "right forces to the fight." Products include BCCS, Common Software, Joint Convergence/MIP, BCST, and TEDS JCTD.
  • Common Hardware Systems (CHS) is a Command and Control enabler for tactical systems. It improves interoperability and connectivity on the battlefield by providing state-of-the-art, fully qualified, interoperable, compatible, deployable, and survivable computer and networking hardware, peripheral devices, and ancillary equipment to the Joint Warfighter. Four versions of the hardware exist: V1 – non-ruggedized, V1+ -some ruggedization, V2 – ruggedized, and V3 – near military specification (MIL SPEC).
  • The Single Interface to the Field (SIF) Portal provides a single, web-based location that supports the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology ASA(ALT) and Army Materiel Command (AMC) communities at all levels in fielding, training, and sustaining operations. It synchronizes the military and civilian support community with data from multiple sources, provides Common Operational Pictures (COP) via Dashboards and Reports, and interfaces with external tools databases in support of PEO/PM information management.
  • GCCS–A/JC2 is the Army's strategic, theater and tactical command, control, communications (C3) system. It provides a seamless link of operational information and critical data from the strategic Global Command and Control System–Joint (GCCS–J) to Army theater elements and below. GCCS–A assists in mission planning, deployment support, operations in theater and redeployment. It provides a common picture of Army tactical operations to the joint and coalition communities and delivers joint asset visibility to the Army to facilitate operations. Products include DRRS-A, JC2, and GCCS-A.

Major Initiatives

The Mission Command Collapse Strategy

Project Manager Mission Command (PM MC) launched the development of the Mission Command Collapse strategy during fall 2009. Its strategic intent is to shift from the Mission Command family of distinct applications with unique data storing and sharing mechanisms and collapse the fires, maneuver, sustainment and air defense and airspace management product lines towards a consolidated Mission Command product line. Through the MC Collapse strategy, PM MC intends to provide Warfighters with high-quality capabilities that enhance performance through technology while simultaneously reducing system complexity.

The Mission Command Collapse Strategy is composed of three primary efforts:

  • Command Workstation: Future collaborative capabilities will be developed and deployed into a common Command Workstation. The Command Workstation will provide the foundation to be able to substantially increase the Maneuver Commander and staffs' ability to collaborate across a broad range of operations through development application.
  • Command Web: The Command Web MC Web thin-client is a standardized operating environment that provides visualization, collaboration and planning capabilities to the Warfighter. It allows for exposure of tactical data to include air space management, logistics, fires and enemy and friendly data. Command Web is expected to reduce the hardware footprint to increase sustainability and better efficiency for the Army.
  • Information Infrastructure: PM MC is taking a unified approach to data handling and infrastructure procurement by consolidating the "back office" infrastructure consistent with Army Global Network Enterprise Construct (GNEC) strategy. PM MC expects this approach to reduce Army infrastructure cost and tactical server burden.