Navy Prepares For New Human Experiment Planned For This Month

San Diego Union Tribune | 7/14/02

[Poohbah]

This is less of a preparation for real combat than a test of some ideas that the Navy's been playing with.

[archy]

What does "BADD" translate to?

B/attlefield A/wareness and D/ata D/issemination, per following, and a couple of recent related speeches and working papers:

Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination (BADD)

(User sponsor: U.S. Atlantic Command)

Purpose: To develop, install, and evaluate a prototype operational system that allows commanders to design their own information system; delivers to warfighters an accurate, timely, and consistent picture of the battlefield; and provides access to any transmission mechanisms and worldwide data repositories. Pre-BADD ACTD efforts were briefed to the Defense Science Board as a possible option to enhance intelligence dissemination in support of Operation Joint Endeavor. This resulted in the creation of the Bosnia Command and Control Augmentation (BC2A) currently operating in theater. This represents a significant enhancement in data dissemination capabilities using the Joint Broadcast System.

Phase I of BADD is being developed by DARPA, with CECOM as executive agent, and is focused on demonstration of key capabilities to disseminate data to battalion Tactical Operations Centers during the Task Force XXI Advanced Warfighting Experiment. Phase II will enhance and mature these systems to develop a pilot information management service in support of the Global Broadcast Service on UHF Follow-On (UFO) satellites 8, 9, and 10.

[archy]

This is less of a preparation for real combat than a test of some ideas that the Navy's been playing with.

Indeed.

Neat toybox, too....

particularly the Pelican II

OPTIONALLY PILOTED AIRCRAFT: PELICAN FLIES AS A UAV

[Poohbah]

Phase I of BADD is being developed by DARPA, with CECOM as executive agent, and is focused on demonstration of key capabilities to disseminate data to battalion Tactical Operations Centers during the Task Force XXI Advanced Warfighting Experiment. Phase II will enhance and mature these systems to develop a pilot information management service in support of the Global Broadcast Service on UHF Follow-On (UFO) satellites 8, 9, and 10.

I'm sure that the Bild-A-Burgers want us to believe that "UFO" stands for "UHF Follow-On." :o)

[archy]

I'm sure that the Bild-A-Burgers want us to believe that "UFO" stands for "UHF Follow-On." :o)

That'll depend a lot on what the Pentagon spokesman looks like, whether he's afraid of birds [Ack! Ack!] and if his first words are *Klatu, Borada, Nicktoe....*

Someday I'll tell you about the aliens with weird eyes I saw at Roswell back in the 1970s....and it's not a story that begins with *Once upon a time....*

[Dukie]

Please ping me when you tell that story

[Blood of Tyrants]

Boxers or briefs?

[Exit148]

Looks like the lips were done by the 'glossy lip' make-up guy on Fox News Channel.

[capitan_refugio]

That's "Klaatu barada nikto".

You're speaking with an accent.

[archy]

That's "Klaatu barada nikto".

You're speaking with an accent.

[Shhh. The Earth people will never know the difference if you don't let on.]

[Poohbah]

Is that accent the extraterrestrial equivalent of the hillbilly accent, perchance? :o)

[archy]

Is that accent the extraterrestrial equivalent of the hillbilly accent, perchance? :o)

Why, I don't know what you're talking about....

[pssst! guys... We've got another one who's getting suspicious....]

[capitan_refugio]

Me neither. Don't know what you're talking about.
Didn't see "Close Encounters." Nope, not me.