Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and the United States Army Communications and Electronics Command.[The following information was provided via the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM CECOM Communications Electronics Command (US Army) CECOM National Center for Communications of the Civil Protection Agency ) web site at: www.monmouth.army.mil/CELCMC/.] About the United States Army United States Army Major branch of the U.S. military forces, charged with preserving peace and security and defending the nation. The first regular U.S. fighting force, the Continental Army, was organized by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, to supplement local Communications and Electronics Command The CECOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC LCMC Life Cycle Management Command (US Army) LCMC Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ LCMC Life-Cycle Management Center LCMC Lancaster Centre for Management in China LCMC Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex ) develops, acquires, fields, supports, and sustains superior Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, (C4ISR C4ISR Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance C4ISR Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance C4ISR Command Control Communications Computers Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance ) and Information Systems for the Joint Warfighter. An Interdependent Life Cycle Management Team The CECOM LCMC and Army Team C4ISR are comprised of independent and interdependent organizations that are collectively responsible for the life cycle of C4ISR systems. These organizations include the * Communications-Electronics Command; * The Program Executive Office (PEO) for Command, Control, and Communications Tactical; * The PEO for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare Noun 1. electronic warfare - military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum EW military action, action - a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea" , and Sensors; * The PEO for Enterprise Information Systems; and * The Communications Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center. The systems our team manages are found throughout Army (and allied) units, Army platforms, and across the spectrum of Army operations, as is evident from our business statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2007: * We intensively managed 128 major defense programs, amounting to over $10 billion in total obligation authority to acquire, field, and provide new equipment training on C4ISR systems. * We are responsible for almost 56,000 inventoried items (almost half the Army's inventory), including over 6,600 major end items. We have reset (repaired, recapitalized, or replaced) 127,000 C4ISR systems since FY04. * We provide and sustain software for most of the Army's deployed systems. We fielded 250 software releases, incorporating over 4,000 requirements. * We produced 130 test reports in support of intra-Army interoperability certification, ensuring system software operates as expected on the battlefield. * We completed 11 Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program build-outs, resulting in upgraded and modernized infrastructure for key Army installations. * Our depot accomplished over $700 million a year in maintenance, fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. , and system integration for Army, Navy, and Air Force C4ISR systems. * We initiated over $1 billion in new foreign military sales That portion of United States security assistance authorized by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, as amended. This assistance differs from the Military Assistance Program and the International Military Education and Training Program cases. * Our contract awards totaled $14.5 billion, of which $2.75 billion was to small businesses. A LandWarNet Center of Excellence Our strategic priorities for the future: * C4ISR and Information Systems Development, Acquisition, Fielding, and Sustainment to Ensure Cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. Dominance * C4ISR Readiness * Industrial Base Health * Transformation and Innovation We are rapidly fielding the best new C4ISR equipment to soldiers fighting every day, upgrading and modernizing existing systems, incorporating new technologies, and ensuring the operational readiness The capability of a unit/formation, ship, weapon system, or equipment to perform the missions or functions for which it is organized or designed. May be used in a general sense or to express a level or degree of readiness. Also called OR. See also combat readiness. of these systems that both protect our Warfighters and give them a technological advantage over the enemy. We know why we are here: "One Mission, One Vision--the Warfighter." |
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