ACCESSION NUMBER:00000
FILE ID:96080602.WWE
DATE:08/06/96
TITLE:06-08-96  TEXT: DOD PRESS RELEASE ON JOINT WARRIOR TECH DEMO

TEXT:
(Army's Joint Task Force takes lead) (600)

Washington -- The Department of Defense announced the kick-off August
5 of the eighth annual series of technology demonstrations at several
sites on the East Coast.

Coalition forces, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the
United Kingdom are also participating.

Following is the text of the Defense Department release:

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JOINT WARRIOR INTEROPERABILITY DEMONSTRATION, AUGUST 5-30

U.S. Central Command today kicks off Joint Warrior Interoperability
Demonstration 96, the eighth in an annual series of technology
demonstrations and the third sponsored by the Joint Staff, at several
sites on the East Coast. The demonstration ends August 30.

The Army's Joint Task Force at Fort Bragg, N.C., takes the lead in the
demonstration. Primary JWID 96 sites include MacDill Air Force Base,
Florida, headquarters for U.S. Central Command and the Joint Special
Operations Task Force; Army Forces Headquarters is at Fort Gordon,
Georgia; Air Force Forces Headquarters at Shaw Air Force Base, South
Carolina; Marine Forces Headquarters at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina;
and Naval Forces Headquarters is embarked aboard the USS Kearsarge.
The Defense Information Systems Agency operates an evaluation facility
at Virginia Square in Arlington, Virginia, which simulates the
National Command Authority.

Coalition forces, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the
United Kingdom, are also participating.

JWID is a series of technology demonstrations intended to further the
goals of the Joint Staff Command, Control, Communications, Computers
and Intelligence For The Warrior concept. The primary objectives are
to identify joint warfighter interoperability problems, demonstrate
improved operational capabilities for deployed forces, and promote
interoperability among existing and emerging C4I systems required to
support a joint task force.

About 40 new technologies will be tested against a scenario
replicating U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility, and the
command and control restraints in that area. Scenario play emphasizes
several mission areas, including crisis action planning, intelligence
dissemination, theater missile defense, and personnel/logistics total
asset visibility.

Demonstrations include the Defense Message System, Theater Deployable
Multimedia Communications, Rapidly Deployable Mobile Communications
Systems, Battlefield Visualization, Global Broadcast Support to the
Joint Warfighter, Electronic Key Management System, and deployments of
Canadian Joint Task personnel.

A JWID 96 web site, http://www.army.mil/jwid96.htm, will provide
updated information.

(Note for News Media. A briefing and tour of U.S. JWID 96 facilities
will be available for news media August 23, 1996. For more
information, contact Maj. Tom Rheinlander or Lt. Col. Mike Monnett at
Army Public Affairs, (703) 697-4314. The following points of contact
are provided for the primary JWID 96 sites: U.S. Central Command
public affairs office, Lt. Col. Antonino Fabiano, MacDill Air Force
Base, Florida (813) 828-6694; U.S. Special Operations Command public
affairs office, George Grimes or Lt. Col. Leslie Fraze, MacDill Air
Force Base, (813) 828-4600; Joint Task Force Joint Information Bureau
and Fort Bragg, Lt. Col. Tim Vane, (910) 396-5600; Army Forces public
affairs office, James Hudgins, Fort Gordon, (706) 791-7003; Air Force
Forces public affairs office, Capt. Catherine Reardon, Shaw Air Force
Base, (803) 668-3621; Navy Force Forces public affairs office,
Commander Navy Surface Fleet Atlantic, Cmdr. John Tull, Norfolk,
Virginia, (804) 322-3140; Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet public
affairs office, Lt. Cmdr. Bob Ross, Norfolk, (804) 444-6887; Marine
Force Forces public affairs office, 2nd Lt. Mark Oswell, Camp LeJeune,
(910) 451-5655 or Maj. Rick Mill, (910) 451-5883; and Defense
Information Systems Agency public affairs office, Betsy McDonald or
Charlie Rasch, Arlington, Virginia, (703) 607-6048.)

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