2018 AUSA CV and MCoE Industry Day TCM ABCT Breakout Session 2018 AUSA Chattahoochee Valley/Fort Benning and MCoE Industry Day 11-12 April 2018 LTC Darrell O Steen Director, TRADOC Capability Manager Armored Brigade Combat Team and Reconnaissance
ABCT Formations FY18 10 Active ABCTs AC RC APS TNG 10 + 5 + 3 + 1 = 19 ABCTs 1 ST ID FRKS 1 st 1 ST ID FRKS 2 nd 3 rd ID FSGA 1 st 3 rd ID FSGA 2 nd 4 th ID FCCO 3 rd 1 st AD FBTX 2 nd 5 ARNG ABCTs 1 st AD FBTX 3rd 1 st CD FHTX 1 st 1 st CD FHTX 2 nd 1 st CD FHTX 3 rd Legend: SEP/A3 AIM/ODS -SA A3 (Engineers ) 30 TH ABCT NC 1 ST ABCT 34 TH ID MN 278 TH ACR TN 116 TH ABCT MT, OR, ID 155 TH ABCT MS ODS-SA (Engineers ) ODS-E (Engineers ) TRAINING KEAS Korea ARMY PREPOSITIONED STOCK APS2 EUR APS4 NEA APS5 SWA 1-118 TH IN (SC) 1-145 TH AR (OH) 3/103 CAB to 278 th ACR ARNG Tactical CABs have aligned with Parent Units 1-221 AR NTC 2-137 TH IN (KS) TRAINING CENTERS X (-) 11th ACR NTC 7 TH JMRC Grafenwoehr
Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! TCM-ABCT Industry Day Help the ABCT realize the Army Functional Concept for Movement and Maneuver (AFC-MM) - Conduct cooperative engagement between Combat Vehicles, between Mounted and Dismounted elements, and between Air and Ground elements, manned and unmanned - Alternative fuels/improved energy efficiency - powertrains and electrical power - Conduct Direct Fire Beyond Line-of-Sight engagements - Wireless comms between crew/maintainers/dismounts - Increased protection at reduced weight Existing ABCT Challenges IRT AFC-MM: - Assured/effective communications across increased distances - High logistical demand - Seeing ourselves in all domains (Space, Cyber) - Training in a Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) and Electronic Warfare (EW) environment - Increased SA - Crew 360-degree SA - Increased Driver Awareness capabilities - Vehicle Protection Suite (VPS) for legacy platforms - Improve Reliability and Sustainability to support semiindependent operations for up to 7 days
Line of Sight Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! LOS is direct fire used by assaulting elements as they conduct fire and movement to close with and destroy an enemy. The target in a LOS engagement is not masked from the firing platform or Soldier; the sensor and shooter are the same. Direct Fire (LOS) has the advantage of point and shoot immediacy against targets that can be directly seen or sensed from the combat platform. The masking effects of terrain limit both the range and fields of fire available for LOS engagements. Line of Sight (LOS) Organic Air Sensor Accessible Air Sensor Line of Sight Organic Sensor on platform Organic Ground Sensor
Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! Beyond Line of Sight BLOS is a direct fire engagement that extends the range of the traditional direct fire LOS capability. This opens up fields of fire previously denied to elements due to intervening terrain, adverse weather affecting LOS engagement or range to the target. BLOS fires enable stand-off engagements at extended ranges, enhancing survivability as platforms remain outside the enemy s lethality envelope. The primary defeat location shifts from engagement areas within the line of sight of the fighting teams to terrain compartments beyond their line of sight, where the enemy s LOS weapons cannot respond. The intervening terrain, once an inhibitor to an engagement, now provides protection to the BLOS system as it engages a target. Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) Organic Air Sensor Accessible Air Sensor Organic Ground Sensor
Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! Cooperative Engagement A Cooperative Engagement is a collaborative attack on a target by two or more platforms in which the sensor and the shooter are not resident on the same platform or echelon within the BCT formation. Two different crews or units, working together using targetable data fed into the network by organic or networked sensors, and then sent to the weapon system. Cooperative Engagement permits mutual support between platoon, company/troop, and battalion/squadron elements, both mounted and dismounted, operating on dispersed axes or when the sensing platform s ability to engage the target is limited by a restricted field of view, visibility, terrain or obstacles. Networked, sensor-to-shooter relationships begin at the squad and platoon level. Cooperative Engagement (BLOS) Organic Sensor Accessible Sensor Organic Sensor
Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! D3SOE Impacts Denied, Degraded, Disrupted Space Operational Environment (D3SOE)
Loss of SATCOM and GPS Mitigation Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! SATCOM Provides: BLOS voice and data communications SATCOM Disruption Mitigation: Train opertors/trouble shoot Understand threat (S2 IPB) Develop PACE Plan P SATCOM A FM (UHF) C JCR (BFT E Iridium/Cell Phones GPS Provides: satellite base position, navigation and timing to both military and civilian users. GPS Disruption Mitigation: SATCOM Disruption Mitigation: Understand threat (S2 IPB) Encrypt GPS receivers (e.g. DAGR) Block the jamming signal (jammers are LOS) Maintain skill in traditional navigation methods Develop PACE Plan P DAGR A FBCB2 (JBC-P or JBC-LOG) C Map and Compass E Terrain Association (with and without map)
Operating Environment Our adversaries have studied our way of war and adapted by investing in capabilities and developing concepts to gain advantages over us across the domains of air, land, sea, space and cyberspace Changes in the character of war All domains are in play (Maritime, Land, Air, Cyber/EMS, Space) Enemy has home field advantage (A2/AD) LETHAL BATTLEFIELDS RUSSIA CONTESTED DOMAINS CHINA Irregular forces/ Little Green Men /Proxies (Hybrid) Enemy is in the network /Communications Disruption (Cyberspace) Long Range Fires/UAS and UGV (Lethality) Troop density reduced (Dispersion of Forces) SYRIA COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT N. KOREA CHALLENGED DETERRENCE 21 st Century Battlefield = Transregional Threats Terrorist & Criminal Organizations Dense Urban Artificial Intelligence Robotics Areas Cyber Attacks Jamming Unmanned Vehicles Information Manipulation Threat Investment in Future Technologies Space CYBER/EW Anti-Ship Long Range Fires Robotics UAS/SWARMS Air & Missile Defense Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World!
Implications of the Operating Environment LAYERED STANDOFF GAINING ACCESS ENABLING OTHER DOMAINS SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS Current positioning of forces means we ll always fight an away game against an adversary forces designed to deny access to terrain, contest all domains, and fight Hybrid warfare Army Forces Must Deploy early, preposition or face contested entry (Readiness) Penetrate Threat Standoff (A2/AD) Cover more ground with fewer forces (Dispersed/Distributed) Fight opposed in all domains (Think, access and employ capabilities) Operate without air superiority (Enable other domains from land) Operate in austere and dispersed environments (Self-sufficient) Strategic Narrative & Information Operations Media CYBER/EW Integrated Air and Missile Defense Complex Anti-Ship Long Range and Massed Fires Complex UAS/SWARMS Air and Land Forces (Combined Arms) + HYBRID Warfare Aviation Cyber/EW Space Air & Missile Defense Long Range Fires Armor Robotics Current Army Foundation Capabilities Through 2040 Airborne Apache Stryker Paladin & MLRS Bradley Abrams Air Assault Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World!
Components of the Solution DISPERSED/DISTRIBUTED OPERATIONS INTERRUPTED COMMUNICATIONS HYPERACTIVE BATTLESPACE NON-CONTIGUOUS As part of the Joint Force, Army forces deploy and transition rapidly to cross-domain maneuver with combined arms teams that operate semi-independently to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative; defeat enemy forces; and achieve operational objectives. Components Cross-Domain Synergy Conduct Cross-Domain Maneuver: Create synergy with capabilities employed across all domains to increase relative combat power, pose enemies with multiple dilemmas, and defeat or destroy enemy forces. Operate Semi-independently: BCTs possess sufficient mobility, firepower, protection, intelligence, mission command, and sustainment capabilities necessary to conduct cross-domain maneuver while dispersed at extended distances, and for ample duration. Integrate Reconnaissance and Security Operations: Combine organic and joint capabilities at all command echelons across all domains with reconnaissance and security operations over wide areas to reduce enemy options and protect the force. Make Mission Command Real: Empower subordinate leaders to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative consistent with the commander s intent regardless of the condition of the mission command network or other cross-domain enablers. EAB: Manage campaigns and transitions; integrate reconnaissance and security operations; create shared understanding; synchronize operations and shape 11 with OE for BCTs; organize sustainment operations; and organize theater level consolidation of gains activities to create sustainable outcomes consistent national objectives. Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! 4
Cross-Domain Maneuver CROSS-DOMAIN SYNERGY The optimization of capabilities across all domains that produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of actions in each domain = OVERMATCH Visualize the Domains in Time and Space Multi- Domain Operations Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! 5
Maneuver Evolution Maneuver Center of Excellence - Team of Soldiers, Families, and Civilians from the Best Army in the World! EXPANDED BATTLEFIELD EXPANDED DIMENSIONS EXPANDED TIME SMALLER ARMIES future Joint Forces will leverage better integration to improve cross-domain synergy - the complementary vice merely additive employment of capabilities across domains, time, and space our ability to project force across domains generates our decisive advantage. Capstone Concept for Joint Operations: Joint Force 2020, (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, 2012, page 7). Domain Expansion (Evolution) 20-- Time-Space Expansion (What is new ) CURRENT OE Integration of Domains over time 1775 American Revolutionary War 1939 World War II 1991 Desert Storm DESERT STORM WW II WWI PH 0 PH I PH II PH III PH IV PH V Competition Conflict Competition The expansion of time, space, and domains in warfare requires US Forces to operate in a state of competition prior to armed conflict and remain in competition following conflict.
2018 AUSA CV and MCoE Industry Day Industry Day 2018 Timeline 10 April 2019 Industry Day 8-10 Oct AUSA National 24 Aug Tier 1 and 5 Industries notified of tiering results 22 Aug Tier 1 recommended list to DCGs and CG MCoE 20 Aug Tier 1 list recommendations to CDID Director (MCoE CDID) 10 Aug All submit tier recommendations company notifications (Tier 2,3 and 4. Schedule briefings) 1 Jun CDD S&T compilation/analysis of Submissions - distributed within MCoE 11 May Industry Quad Charts due to CDID 13 April Industry Day Participants submit final slides to CDD for transfer to AUSA 12 April Industry Day Supplemental meetings with Industry 11 April Industry Day at Ironworks Facility 10 April Industry Day Rehearsal at Ironworks Facility 5 April Industry Day Morning Briefings submitted to CDD for consolidation (CG, CDID Dir, CFT Dirs, AUSA) 14
2018 AUSA CV and MCoE Industry Day Quad Chart Timeline CV/FB AUSA Industry Day 11-12 April 18 Quad Charts due to MCoE NLT 11 May 18 Email: usarmy.benning.mcoe.mbx.industry-day@mail.mil Quad Chart Tier Ranking complete 10 August 18 Industry notified of Quad Tier Ranking NLT 24 August 18 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition 8-10 October 18 15
2018 AUSA CV and MCoE Industry Day Quad Chart Tiers Tier I: Outbrief to the MCoE CG at AUSA National Conference Tier II: Outbrief to the Division Director Tier III: Outbrief to the Requirement Branch Chief Tier IV: This is our requirement area, but does not meet our required capability set Tier V: This is not our requirement area; POC to alternate Center of Excellence provided Tier Definition: The briefing path selected to best facilitate communication with the MCOE 16
Cross Walk 2018 AUSA CV and MCoE Industry Day Big 6 + 1 OVRMACX Overmatch in Soldier and Team Performance Army Modernization Priorities "CSA Strategic Priorities" FFDS Organizational Changes Future Vertical Lift Robotic and Autonomous Systems Mission Command, Cyber, and EW Capabilities Advanced Protection Combat Vehicles Enhance Current Force Readiness Restore Enabler Capacity Fundamentally Sound Formations Invest for Future Force Capabilities Cross-Domain Fires
2018 AUSA CV and MCoE Industry Day Combat Vehicle Modernization Strategy Execution Problem. How must the Army develop and field combat vehicles in the future operational environment (OE) while optimizing near-term readiness? Central idea. The Army develops and fields combat vehicles to meet the needs of Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) executing future maneuver concepts by mapping combat modernization to functional concepts, prioritizing resources and analyzing trades, employing non-traditional acquisition strategies and opportunities to accelerate programs, and providing senior leaders options when necessary to reprioritize. Aim point. An executable strategy that is formation-focused and leads to meeting the requirements in the Maneuver Force Modernization Strategy (MFMS) and Army Functional Concept for Movement and Maneuver (AFC-MM), specifically a BCT with the capacity and capability to operate semi-independently. Risks, challenges, & opportunities. On present course, Army will not be sufficiently modernized for future threat Enhancements to aging fleet near culmination Fiscal constraints require tough decisions and choices Cost and weight factors limit attributes on protection, lethality, and mobility Army must minimize modernization risk across the near, mid, and far-term S&T research must focus on critical enabling technologies CVMS-E is a living document - a running estimate - reality is always evolving 18
2018 AUSA CV and MCoE Industry Day Focus Areas Cross Domain Dominance Combat actions occur in all domains quickly and often times simultaneously Communications become degraded for extended periods of time Battlefield frameworks and operations assume more nonlinear constructs Decision making is either decentralized to allow for rapid adaptation to changes in the OE or opportunities are lost Directed Energy / Energetics Power Generation and Management Integrated Vehicle Protection Suite Advanced Armor Big 4 + 1 Maneuver Robotics and Autonomous Systems (MRAS) Collectors and Effectors Beyond Traditional CV Considerations Mobility Lethality Protection Cyber Space Ground Electromagnetic Spectrum EMS 19