US Joint Forces Command, U.S. Joint Forces Command, the services and a team of multinational partners completed evaluations of various combat identification technologies during Bold Quest 07, which came after 15 months of preparation. The event yielded a huge amount of data the team will begin to analyze so they can discover key insights.
NORFOLK, Va.: U.S. Joint Forces Command, the U.S military services and a team of multinational partners completed Bold Quest 07 (BQ 07) Wednesday and will now begin the task of analyzing the data compiled during this twelve-day event.
BQ 07 was a military utility assessment of technologies developed in USJFCOM's Coalition Combat Identification Technology (CCID) advanced concept technology demonstration (ACTD), as well as other CCID technologies developed by the services and multinational partners.
John Miller, USJFCOM's operational manager for the CCID ACTD, said BQ 07 was the culmination of 15 months of preparation by a talented multinational team and yielded a huge amount of data the team will begin to analyze so they can discover key insights.
“This event more than exceeded our expectations in terms of data we were able to collect, both hard data and warfighter observations,” Miller said. “Everyone who invested in coming here is going home with what they needed to take out of this.”
Miller said the network the command set up for BQ 07 was fundamental to achieving the goals for the event.
“The operational and analytical network between NTC and Nellis was the backbone of the event,” he said. “We were able to get the permissions we needed to set up a very complex network with multiple levels of security for the event to ride on.”
Miller said the next step is to analyze the data and determine what is the next step on the technologies examined.
“Our coalition analysis working group will spend the next three or four months reviewing the data using a phased approach and then they'll present their analysis to the warfighters,” said Miller. “That's a key point, because the warfighters are the ones are making the judgment as to the military utility of these technologies.”
More than 850 participants gathered at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., for the event. In addition to USJFCOM and the services, participants included Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, The United Kingdom, and NATO.
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