Luncheon Covers Battle Labs

The chapter hosted Col. David Barlow, USA, director, Fort Gordon Battle Laboratory, as the guest speaker for the August luncheon. Col. Barlow also serves as the senior Functional Area 24 officer for telecommunication system engineers. The Battle Lab's main functions are long-range experimentation; modeling and simulation; the Battle Lab Collaborative Simulation Environment; live experimentation; and supporting the Network Service Center-Training for units in the contiguous United States, Hawaii and Alaska. These functions provide a testing platform for signal systems in the near future (present to 5 years out) and for far horizon evaluations (25 to 30 years out). Among the many projects actively underway are the top secret/sensitive compartmented information tunneling assessment; troposcatter assessment; and wireless networking concepts pushing cellular-type capabilities to the most common warfighter and targeting the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program. The Battle Lab conducts proof of concept exercises, and it has two scheduled this year.

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