Exercise Tests Coalition Shared Database for MAJIIC ACTD Published July 20, 2009 By John Vergis Information Directorate ROME, N.Y. -- AFRL participated in a 3-week simulation exercise held at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Consultation, Command, and Control Agency (The Hague, Netherlands) and Distributed Common Ground Station. The exercise was for the Multisensor Aerospace-Ground Joint ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance] Interoperability Coalition (MAJIIC) project, a US Joint Forces Commandsponsored Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD). As part of this ACTD construct, the US participates as a member nation within the multinational MAJIIC project, joining Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The overall goal of MAJIIC is to increase coalition ISR interoperability and enable user access to recently gathered ISR data regardless of original sensor source, command echelon, or national boundary. The successful exercise tested the latest version (i.e., version 2.0) of the Coalition Shared Database (CSD) and evaluated--both operationally and technically--the collection, coordination, and intelligence requirements management (CCIRM) processes. Operational focus was at the tactical level in supporting time-sensitive operations, executing sensor dynamic tasking, and cross-cueing, all in a net-centric data sharing environment. Specific tools for collaboration and multinational asset tasking developed for CCIRM underwent evaluation. The exercise involved intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance sensors; ground stations; exploitation stations; and command and control systems, technologies contributed both from nations participating in MAJIIC and from NATO. The systems facilitating CCIRM provided the military operators supporting the exercise with numerous capabilities of substantial merit. MAJIIC leverages both simulation-based activities and live scenarios to demonstrate military utility, with its CSD and CCIRM capabilities functioning as the standards-based solution to the challenge of ISR data sharing and collaboration in diverse, dynamic coalition environments. On multiple occasions, MAJIIC has demonstrated not only the advantages of having a CSD-enabled force informed by near-real-time ISR data access, but also the benefits of sharing this data--and the products generated from it--with other elements of the force. It is this unencumbered data accessibility that serves as a virtual force multiplier in terms of enhancing the capabilities of limited, high-demand, and low-density ISR sensing assets. Asset numbers may remain unchanged, but the capacity to see data from previously unavailable sensors will undoubtedly enhance the performance level of ISR support provided to coalition operations.