Objectives

Overview

The term coalition has changed significantly since the events of 9/11. The traditional thought of coalitions that included national military to military, now incorporate civilian agencies. The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) has highlighted the need for unimpeded information sharing between traditional coalition partners, and perhaps as significantly between DoD and non-DoD agencies. The interagency requirements for information sharing are, in many cases, more complex than those of traditional military to military coalition partners because of a lack of common standards for both hardware and software.

Coalition operations in response to international crises continue to highlight the requirement for coalitions to exchange C4ISR information seamlessly. The acceptance and endorsement of the network centric warfare concept by the U.S. and the nations within the various coalitions participating in these operations, points to the need to resolve the technical, procedural and policy challenges that accompany this concept.

The Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) program remains the premier event for U.S. and Homeland Security/Homeland Defense (HLS/D) coalitions, and traditional international coalition participants to explore interoperability solutions. The emphasis on technical assessments, warfighter, and security evaluations of these solutions will lead to accelerated fielding by the U.S. to its warfighters and inter-agencies. CWID 2005 offers a continuation of this successful venue to work through all aspects of the solution, focusing on network centricity, and accompanying needs to refine current procedures and policies or create new ones in support of technical advances.

All hardware, software, or Tactics, Techniques or Procedures (TTPs) solutions to a CWID 2005 objective should support the overall network centric warfare and information centric concept. During CWID planning and execution, trial activities may be run over, or connected to, the coalition wide area network either in support of military operations or military assistance to civil agencies. All trials are run within the context of an overarching scenario to show how coalition warfighting and civil operations can benefit by using the technology, procedures, or policy changes, associated with the trial.