thedrifter
08-30-07, 04:56 PM
Camp Johnson gets Tactical Decision Center
By Trista Talton - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Aug 30, 2007 16:54:31 EDT
CAMP JOHNSON, N.C. — Like a big arcade of sorts, the new Tactical Decision Center here is a virtual playing field for Marines training in logistics.
The Marine Corps Combat Service Support School officially opened its new TDC on Thursday. The center is filled with flat-screen computer monitors that display three-dimensional images, putting the Marine sitting at the keyboard anywhere from the helm of a virtual convoy, to overlooking a battlefield, to interacting with foreign civilians.
“It’s about logistics and control,” said Col. Joel Berry, MCCSSS commander. “It is a long time coming that a facility such as this brings it all together.”
Brig. Gen. John Wissler, senior military assistant to the deputy secretary of defense, said the facility will be used to train Marines, and educate them.
“This Tactical Decision Center will get us away [from] building the airplane while we fly it,” he said. “The complexity of the modern battlefield demands that we have these technologies. We cannot afford to fail.”
The center will use the Battle Command Sustainment Support System, Command and Control Personal Computer, Warehouse to Warfighter, and Common Logistics Command and Control System.
Students will be allowed to use radio frequency identification apparatus and simulate convoy operations simultaneously with Combat Logistics Operations Center operations.
Ellie
By Trista Talton - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Aug 30, 2007 16:54:31 EDT
CAMP JOHNSON, N.C. — Like a big arcade of sorts, the new Tactical Decision Center here is a virtual playing field for Marines training in logistics.
The Marine Corps Combat Service Support School officially opened its new TDC on Thursday. The center is filled with flat-screen computer monitors that display three-dimensional images, putting the Marine sitting at the keyboard anywhere from the helm of a virtual convoy, to overlooking a battlefield, to interacting with foreign civilians.
“It’s about logistics and control,” said Col. Joel Berry, MCCSSS commander. “It is a long time coming that a facility such as this brings it all together.”
Brig. Gen. John Wissler, senior military assistant to the deputy secretary of defense, said the facility will be used to train Marines, and educate them.
“This Tactical Decision Center will get us away [from] building the airplane while we fly it,” he said. “The complexity of the modern battlefield demands that we have these technologies. We cannot afford to fail.”
The center will use the Battle Command Sustainment Support System, Command and Control Personal Computer, Warehouse to Warfighter, and Common Logistics Command and Control System.
Students will be allowed to use radio frequency identification apparatus and simulate convoy operations simultaneously with Combat Logistics Operations Center operations.
Ellie