EXPERIMENTATION WG 08/2
20-24 August 2007
San Diego
table of contents
table of contents 2
introduction 3
EWG CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 3
NATIONAL updates 3
Australia 3
Canada 4
New Zealand 5
United States 5
United Kingdom 6
A-Z Initiatives 6
Non A-Z Initiatives 7
Levels of interest. 7
VM WARE 7
Embedded Event Manager (EEM) 8
FIRE Website 8
AIS2GOLD 8
NETEXS/survey questions 9
Chairman’s Outbrief 9
Other business 9
Enclosures 9
introduction
1. The Chairman opened the meeting by welcoming delegates to the second Experimentation WG (EWG) meeting for Trident Warrior 08. A list of attendees is included at Enclosure 1 and the Agenda is at Enclosure 2. Mr. Jordon provided the domestic brief for the meeting.
EWG CHAIRMAN’S REPORT
2. The Chairman provided an update brief on TW08 events since the last meeting. The brief (Enclosure 3) provided a summary of the focus areas for A-Z experimentation. He provided an outline for the meeting, including the requirement to review both the A-Z and non A-Z technology proposals; identify the Lead nation and personnel for each technology. It is also intended to develop the initiative Objective Statements and Experimentation Goals for each initiative in the FIRES website and also design the initial Risk Reduction Limited Objective Experiment (RR LOE) goals. The final objective for EWG 08/2 was to discuss TW08 IPC goals.
3. The Chairman recapped the AUSCANNZUKUS role in experimentation and outlined the A-Z Experimentation Plan endorsed by the Supervisory Board in May 07. There is a requirement to A-Z experimentation areas for 2010.
4. An overview of TW08 was provided; the intention is to conduct TW08 in two phases; Phase 1 is the Technical phase to be conducted during the transit to Hawaii with phase 2, the Cognitive phase, being conducted during Scenario of RIMPAC. The integration of TW 08 with RIMPAC 08 aims to leverage mutual use of networks. The networks include SCI, SIPR, NIPR, CENTRIXS, and UNCLAS.
5. The Chairman’s closed his update by presenting an overview of the TW08 Technologies by initiative area and provided an update to the TW08 schedule.
NATIONAL updates
6. Nations presented their respective national updates.
