Integrating the Target Workflow System (TWS) with the Command and Control Personal Computer (C2PC) System: Proof of Concept
Under the sponsorship of OUSD AT&L and various Service1 program managers, Joint Time
Sensitive Target (TST) Simulation Experiments (SIMEXs) over the last two years have provided insight
into how various systems and applications contribute to the TST development process. A fundamental
problem with the targeting process is the manual entry of targeting information as the data is passed
between systems used to prosecute TSTs. In many cases, the target identification/numbering formats are
inconsistent. Developing multiple independent targets with a variety of sensors can exceed Command and
Control (C2) user's capabilities. The Targeting Workflow System (TWS) architecture was developed to
provide a framework for various targeting systems to create, update, and share target data with one another
without human data entry and with a common numbering scheme.
As part of the Family of Interoperable Operational Pictures (FIOP) Management Plan2, the FY02–FY03 priorities included the development of a tactical Defense Information Infrastructure Common
Operating Environment (DII COE) workstation. The FIOP System Engineering Working Group (SEWG)
identified one of its initial objectives of creating a tactical workstation software baseline from the COE
Common Operational Picture (COP). However, the software was shown to be unworkable for use in a
wide area network environment. An alternate approach was to make the Marines' C2 Personal Computer
(C2PC) software a COE mission application, establish a Joint Configuration Control Board for the
software, and assign the Marines as Executive Agent over the software baseline and assign DISA
responsibility for distributing the software to the Joint community.3
The goal of this "Proof of Concept" is to integrate TWS functionality with C2PC to provide a
more robust methodology for developing, monitoring, and executing TSTs under a single C2 application
leveraging the messaging and map capabilities.
