1. Navy International Program Office
Command, Control, Communication and Computer Intelligence Reconnaissance (C4ISR)
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to be able to speak to this great congregation of stakeholders and interested parties on such a critically important subject as Command, Control, Communication and Computer Intelligence Reconnaissance. C4ISR covers many areas. I am sure as technology continues to rapidly advance the acronym C4ISR will also continue to evolve, but hopefully not so exponentially that we will need an extra cover slide next time we meet! I would like to thank our distinguished guests joining us this afternoon. They will speak on their perspectives of C4ISR. May I emphasize what we all know is critical – a joint and combined development of connectivity is required as we advance to the Global Information Grid, the land of “Oz.”
RADM Mark R. Milliken
Director
Navy International Program Office
May 18, 2004

2. Navy IPO C4ISR Strategy
Successful Coalition/Allied Warfare depends upon Coalition and Alliance Building and Interoperability
Capabilities Focus - Sea Power 21 aligns US naval missions networked with our coalition partners and allies
Countries Small to Big -- all important
Way ahead:
Current and future international coalitions require coordinated matching of interoperability requirements now
To meet each country’s own homeland defense requirements
To meet COCOM objectives
We want to:
Build on advanced capability planning
Work with our partners/allies to foster the best robust, phased strategy-to-systems process to link our capabilities
Combined C4ISR delivers a powerful, collective force in the Global War on Terrorism
To set the stage I wanted to provide a quick overview of our overall strategy in advancing C4ISR internationally and then provide some more insights into the US Navy’s overall efforts.
Our objective is to work with our coalition partners and allies to develop and execute C4ISR programs in the most cost effective way, so that our efforts will strengthen our coalitions and interoperability.
The US Navy believes a capabilities focus is the best solution to accomplish our objectives. Our CNO has provided a framework to more easily understand those areas where we all might contribute – and whether countries are small, medium, or large – your contributions are all important. For C4ISR, in particular, certain capabilities have been identified under the moniker of FORCEnet.
Navy IPO wants to encourage new dialogue for long range planning. We want to continually perform better with newer, faster, more reliable international business practices. Current and future coalition partners and allies require coordinated matching interoperability requirements. We need to begin planning to develop our roadmaps. now! At Navy IPO, we want to meet our own COCOM objectives while at the same time working to meet each coalition partners’ and allies’ own homeland defense requirements.
By building on a focused, advanced planning construct from strategy to appropriate systems delivery, we will see the best capabilities delivered, letting us work together quicker, more efficient and for less.
With a combined and joint C4ISR umbrella, we can ensure all of our countries can advance together as a powerful, collective force in the Global War on Terrorism.

3. C4ISR – A SEAPOWER 21 FOCUS Security Cooperation Objectives
Coalition Sea Power 21 Capabilities
Strategy to Systems
C4ISR Roadmap
Summary
With that strategy in mind, I want to speak to these areas in helping you better understand the US Navy’s Sea Power 21 framework. You will see how we, in the US Navy, have focused our efforts to help us best move from strategic objectives to a systems delivery.
Our CNO’s Sea Power provides our compass, our direction in assessing our capabilities from the US Combatant Commander level all the way down to our requirements and acquisition processes. This capabilities focus is appropriate for developing a C4ISR roadmap for ourselves and each coalition partner and ally.
Navy IPO in collaboration with other government agencies will play a significant role in implementing security cooperation objectives and the CNO’s goals. Navy IPO is in the process of evaluating a strategy that aligns with SECDEF and CNO guidance. One of our goals is to develop long-range, proactive plans vice simply reacting to coalition and ally requests. As part of this proactive process, I invite you to participate with the wide range of products we use at NIPO to ensure a common “roadmap” as we work toward the C4ISR development of coalition partners and allies.
I encourage your feedback on opportune ways to insert your inputs into this roadmap planning process.

4. Security Cooperation Objectives
Interoperability with
Global Naval Partners
Coalition Building
Foreign Capabilities
NIPO takes responsibility for implementing partner navies, coast guards, amphibious forces and sometimes air forces cooperative initiatives and acquisition goals.
Measurable objectives are crucial to a successful security cooperation program. Responding to SECDEF’s Security Cooperation Guidance, security cooperation planners are increasingly asked to demonstrate progress toward the Secretary’s priorities in terms of Coalition Building for access to the unified battle space, Interoperability requisite for combat-credible coalition warfighting with US joint forces, and developing foreign naval, coast guard, amphibious and sometime air force Capabilities that enhance regional stability and each countries’ own homeland defenses.
Navy IPO will support alignment, integration and leveraging all foreign interaction to meet CNO priorities—whether executed by US Sea Service headquarters or by our coalition partners and allies.
Navy IPO collaborates with other government agencies to support implementation of
partner maritime / aviation objectives -- focused on capabilities

5. Naval Transformation Trends
RECAPITALIZATION & MODERNIZATION ARE MAKING U.S. NAVAL FORCES MORE . .
EXPEDITIONARY
LIGHTER, MORE FLEXIBLE FORCES
MORE LETHAL POWER
JOINT
WITH OTHER SERVICES & ALLIES
NETWORKED
LINKAGE OF ALL ASSETS IN THE “BATTLESPACE”
PERSISTENT INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, RECONNAISSANCE (ISR)
PRECISE
REDUCED “SENSOR-TO-SHOOTER” TIMELINES
PRECISION FROM DISTANCE
ALIGNED IN ORGANIZATION
BUSINESS EFFICIENCIES
MORE SUPPORT FOR FLEET WARFIGHTERS
RELIANT ON UNMANNED ASSETS
UAVs, UCAVs, UUVs
POC: Office of Force Transformation, OSD
Transformation is a dominant term in the DC arena and it pushes outward to all corners of the defense department. As we recapitalize and modernize, our “roadmap” for future capabilities planning focuses on the list of trends shown.
Becoming more expeditionary, precise, networked, and unmanned are key to evolving to meet the 21st century threat. But realize, we recognize the significant contributions of joint and coalition / allied operations.
While alignment in organization is a transformation trend in a macro sense, alignment in organization is also one of our primary goals at Navy IPO. We look to improving internal processes, and coupled with your valuable input, to help improve our organization.
See also Naval Transformation Roadmap, July 2002, SECNAV.

6. Capabilities Alignment
FORCEnet
SEA BASING
SEA STRIKE
SEA SHIELD
FORCENET
DECISION AIDS
NETWORKS
SEA
SHORE
SPACE
SEA BED
WEAPONS
SENSORS
FORCENET
WARFIGHTER
AIR
This introduces the Sea Power 21 Concept, our CNO’s operational concept on strategic focus for our naval forces. I’ve also included a web site reference for those of you who wish to share this electronically.
The important focus for today’s discussion is the foundation, ForceNet, and how it underpins the capabilities alignment of Sea Power 21, Sea Strike, Sea Shield and Sea Basing. ForceNet is the catalyst for making Sea Power 21 a reality, linking capabilities not only between each pillar, but also the missions within each pillar.
Sea Power 21 Pillars:
Sea Strike, Sea Shield, Sea Basing, and FORCEnet

7. Coalition Seapower 21 Capabilities
UNCLASS
Coalition Seapower 21 Capabilities
Sea Strike
Conduct Strike Ops
Conduct Special Ops
Conduct Offensive Information Ops (EW/CNA)
Provide Naval Fires
Provide Indigenous Amphibious Assault Forces
Conduct Ship to Objective Maneuver (STOM)
Sea Shield
Sea Basing
Provide Sea Base Force Protection
Provide Administrative Sea Lift
Provide Sustainment for Operations at Sea
Provide Sustainment for Operations Ashore
FORCEnet
Provide Network Protection
Provide Information Transfer
Provide Deployable ISR Assets
Share ISR Across the Force
Participate in Mission Planning
Maintain Operational Level Situational Awareness
Maintain Tactical Level Situational Awareness
Protect Against SOF/Terrorist Threats
Provide Search & Rescue
Provide Self-Defense vs. Surface Threats
Conduct Offensive Operations vs. Surface Threats
Conduct Expeditionary MIO/LIO Ops
Conduct Escort Ops
Neutralize Submarine Threats in the Littorals
Neutralize Open Ocean Submarine Threats
Counter Minefields from Deep to Shallow Water
Conduct Mining Operations
Conduct Expeditionary MIW
Provide Self-Defense Against Air and Missile Threats
Provide Overland Air and Missile Defense
Conduct Sea-based Ballistic Missile Defense
Provide Area/Task Group Air and Missile Defense
This slide categorizes the capabilities and missions that fall within our Navy’s the Sea Power 21 pillars, tailored toward coalition and allied forces.
As coalition partners and allies, having an assessment on how well we can “plug into” each others’ naval force operations is critical if we are to succeed. The contributions of individual forces when applied to the coalition or allied force make the sum of the parts greater, synergetic.
Developing yardsticks for coalition and allied warfare assessment is best supported by better mutual understanding fostered by a process that can plan, assess and analyze, in a cooperative fashion, towards a common goal. Specifically identifying a strength, weakness, opportunity, or threat within the Sea Power 21 capabilities matrix would lead to compatible measures for correcting deficiencies for both individual countries’ homeland security and overall coalition operations. This is our view of the world.
Again, we also realize that each of our partners and allies has their own strategic objectives for their homeland defenses. We want to help where we can with those capabilities. They all are important in combating this global terrorist threat we see everyday.
UNCLASS

8. Country Stair Steps to Capabilities
Current
Future
Capabilities
Time
Given the competitive resource environment, we all struggle to meet our capabilities goals. Technology challenges also factor when striving for capability.
Taking a proactive approach that looks farther along the time continuum, acknowledging the reality that ‘stair stepping’ can be used to attain the desired capabilities, would allow for a coherent approach that maximizes at sea capabilities to the best extent possible .
Minimum mutual naval goals are listed – for example, we should be able to establish maritime interception operations in a specific theater, and communicate and coordinate at a level where we can stop a suspect ship, potentially abetting worldwide terrorist activity.
Mutual support starts at that level. It is in all of our best mutual interests to establish mission focus on maritime capabilities to run the gamut, from humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HA/DR) all the way up to full scale war.
Individual country requirements are an important consideration in support of their homeland defense. Efforts that support regional stability are essential in protecting us all from the potential evils inflicted on us all by the cowardly terrorist acts we see daily.
Coalition and Interoperability Partner Goals
Minimum Ability to:
Link into U.S. theater command nets
Contribute to common operational and tactical picture
Coordinate air, surface and subsurface operations
Country Homeland Defense

9. Strategy to Systems COCOM Why? Strategy Concepts Capabilities
Requirements
Technology
Programs
Platforms/Weapons/
& Sensors
What?
Where?
When?
There are several steps all countries consider and execute in seeing the final delivery of sensors, weapons and platforms with associated logistics, training, and engineering support.
National level strategy and concepts for homeland defense, coalition building, and C4ISR interoperability take into account all political, socio-economic, and military aspects.
From these the desired capabilities and requirements are developed. Here the assessment, analysis, and planning for the best way ahead must consider many stakeholders within our governments and our industries. We have been working hard to increase our focus in this area.
Technology transfer considerations remain important to all of us, in terms of ensuring competition is maximized and force protection is not compromised. This is another process Navy IPO manages for the Navy in conjunction with National level leadership’s oversight.
Finally, Team International forums join our Country Program Directors, in coordination with the Systems Command – Air, Sea, and Space, with the coalition partners and allies – to shape and execute, sound acquisition strategies developed for Cooperative and FMS programs. This will include delivery and sustainment of the various sensor, weapons and platforms throughout the desired life cycle, supporting our overall capabilities and requirements.
The red arrow represents the iterative process that is needed to constantly update and optimize the best capabilities we can muster as technology continues to advance.
How?
‘Team International’

10. C4ISR Coalition / Interoperability Partner
Challenge
Joint C4ISR Goal
Theater and FLEET
COCOM
Desired Capabilities
Acquisition Community
C4ISR Program of Record
Policy Community
U.S. C4ISR Migration Path
For the FORCEnet foundation, we are looking to best match desired C4ISR capabilities for our Combatant Commanders and our coalition partners and allies in support of the Global War on Terrorism. In this process we also consider the U. S. policies shaping the desired migration path in developing the best programs consistent with our coalition partners’ and allies’ needs.
Navy IPO is engaged with the Theater and Fleet Combatant Commanders to ensure their strategic and operational interoperability requirements are met. We also want to work closely with our coalition partners and allies to help them satisfy their own internal interoperability requirements as they operate to best defend their own homelands.
The Joint C4ISR goal combines the policies, the force modernization requirements of our coalition partners and allies, and, of course, the final determinant, enough funding to execute a well-considered acquisition program integrating key parameters, cost, schedule, performance, and risk mitigation.
Foreign
Country
Desired
Capabilities

11. C4ISR Capability Roadmap – Data Links
Software programmable independence
Transformation towards Software Communications Architecture (SCA)
8 “Channels”
JTRS
4 “Channels”
Link 22
MIDS JTR
Link 16
Nothing in this world stands still and the United States C4ISR strategy is no exception.
We have moved forward from the 1960’s and 1970’s Link-11 and JTIDS Class I Terminals - to the current MIDS terminals now supporting Link-16 architecture.
Our focus in the near future is towards replacing Link-11 with Link-22,
and replacing MIDS boxes with new Joint Tactical Radio System/Joint Tactical Radio Set (MIDS/JTRS) devices.
Soon we will see software programmable devices able to support waveforms of choice.
Our toughest concern is to maintain connectivity with our own and our coalition partners and allies legacy systems as we move forward. Navy IPO is engaged in helping our coalition partners and allies best shape their own C4ISR acquisition strategies to support current and future C4ISR evolution.
MIDS
Any fighter platform
IJMS
JTIDS Class II
Link 11
JTIDS Class I
“Channel” = Waveform
Link 16 requires 2 “channels”
Waveform specific Terminals

12. Seapower 21 Coalition Capabilities
Examples of Products
Provide Network Protection
Information Assurance
Provide Information Transfer
Data Links --- JTRS
Provide Deployable ISR Assets
Global Hawk, Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS), Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA)
Share ISR Across the Force
Participate in Mission Planning
Global Command and Control System (GCCS)
Maintain Operational Level Situational Awareness
Common Operational Picture (COP)
Maintain Tactical Level Situation Awareness
Common Tactical Picture (CTP)
FORCEnet
Here we see some examples of products as they match the capabilities our forces require to achieve the best possible interoperability. We want to be deployable, networked, and connected from the planning stages to operational and tactical execution of our combined missions, whether Ha/DR or full scale war. The Global War on Terrorism demands this partnership.

13. Global Information Grid
GIG Architecture
FORCEnet NCPs
Common Operational and Tactical Picture
Communication and
Data Networks
There are distinct layers in our capabilities focus for the C4ISR System of System, the land of “Oz.”
We must meet COCOM’s Objectives
for Coalition Building and Interoperability. We must meet our coalition partners’ and allies’ own interoperability requirements to provide capabilities for their homeland defense
This management of information and knowledge leads to a complex architecture that must be developed in a structured fashion from strategy to systems delivery to operational deployment-a three phase concept.
Regional stability is important to us all in the Global War on Terrorism. C4ISR is the cement foundation that will ensure success for us all.
Most importantly, C4ISR is not a one way street. It is an integrated system.
Intelligence,
Surveillance &
Reconnaissance

14. Navy IPO Products and Processes
Foreign Military Sales
Price and Availability
Letters of Offer and Acceptance
Excess Defense Articles
Grant and Sale
Training Support (thru NETSAFA)
Team International
Cooperative Programs
Foreign Comparative Testing
MOUs
Export Licenses
Data Exchange Agreements
Technology Transfer
Visit Requests
In managing from Strategy and Concepts, through delivery and sustainment of equipment and services, these two columns show the products and processes Navy IPO deals with in making our business with you a success.
To help with C4ISR integration, Navy IPO has a focused team dedicated to ensuring we remain cognizant of national goals, ongoing and future programs, coalition partner and allied requirements, and proactively interface with all stakeholders to best meet timeline requirements.
Our approach is to provide a plan and then working with our Systems Commands, develop and execute a program that is reasonable, scaleable, and affordable.
Full engagement with our coalition partners’ and allies’ industrial infrastructure is a known key to success, especially in the C4ISR arena.
The “transfer function” to achieve the desired capabilities will not necessarily be just an FMS solution, but most likely a hybrid – FMS, DCS, and Cooperative – arrangement.
Finally, a phased approach in developing country interoperability plans is the best way ahead. This will be addressed in detail by Navy IPO’s Director for C4ISR, Mr. Greg Bergersen, later this afternoon.

15. Summary Coalition Building and Interoperability
Capabilities Focus - Sea Power 21 alignment, directed by COCOM
Countries Small to Big -- all important
Join us in the iterative strategy-to- systems process using the Phased approach for C4ISR
Our common goals demand the best connectivity for everyone’s Homeland Defense in this Global War on Terror
Our Navy IPO objective is to work with our coalition partners and allies to develop and execute programs so that our efforts will strengthen our coalitions and alliances interoperability.
We believe a capabilities focus works best to accomplish this. Our CNO has provided us a framework to more easily understand those areas we can all contribute – and whether countries are small, medium, or large – their contributions and desires are all important.
We encourage country engagement with our Navy IPO team in entertaining a phased approach to developing a robust interoperability integration plan.
Our common goals demand the best connectivity we can achieve for the defense of our country’s and people in this truly Global War on Terrorism.
Thank you, again, for joining us this afternoon.