The Modern Louisiana Maneuvers - US Army Center Of Military History

Army Materiel Command (AMC)­
MACOM responsible for most aspects of sustainment
and support to Army research,
development, and acquisition programs.
Axis Meister-Designated leader of a
Force XXI Campaign axis. CG, TRADOC,
was axis meister of the Joint Venture axis;
Vice Chief of Staff, Army, of the Institutional!
TDA axis; and Director, ADO, of the Army
digitization axis.
B
Battle Labs-System of labs instituted by
GEN Franks to experiment with changes in
the field Army in the areas of the five battle
dynamics: Battle Command (at Fort
Leavenworth) ; Battle Space (Mounted Battle
Space at Fort Knox, Dismounted Battle Space
at Fort Benning); Depth and Simultaneous
Attack (at Fort Sill); Early Entry/Lethality/
Survivability (at Fort Monroe); and Combat
Service Support (at Fort Lee). Their operations
were coordinated and integrated by the
Battle Lab Integration, Technology, and Concepts
Directorate, DCS-CD , TRADOC.
Battlefield Digitization-Army modernization
effort using high-speed streams of information
packets moving across electronic
grids, rapidly processing these packets into
high-resolution graphical displays with assistance
from expert systems, and using automated
decision-support systems to solve complex
battle command problems at all levels.
Battlefield Visualization-Use of digital
information technologies integrated horizontally
across the force-including global
pOSitioning system receivers-to provide a
common awareness of the battlefield situation
to all components of the force, enabling
commanders to make decisions based on
timely information of friendly and enemy
locations and actions.
Board of Directors (BoD)-LAM process
meeting of the Army's corporate leadership,
its four-star generals and selected three-stars,
100
to address issues affecting the Army in the
context of the good of the entire institution.
C
Combined Arms Center-TRADOC
center for integrating operational art and
combined arms, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Combat Training Centers-System of
three training centers-the NTC at Fort Irwin,
California, for heavy forces; the JRTC at Fort
Polk, Louisiana, for light forces; and the Combat
Maneuver Training Center at Hohenfels,
Germany-for training battalion and brigade
task forces in a simulated, instrumented combat
environment designed to replicate actual
warfare as closely as possible. The program is
capped for division and corps staffs by the
Battle Command Training Program, conducted
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Concepts Based Requirements System-System
developed during the Cold
War to enable the Army to respond to
changes in the Soviet/Warsaw Pact threat
and to conceptualize and develop force
modernization requirements on the basis
of those changes.
D
Defense Simulations Internet (DSI)­
Computer network deSigned to link disparate
simulations and models in dispersed locations;
evolutionary simulation network
that permits customers to take advantage of
advances in wide-area communications and
to interconnect with geographically dispersed
models, simulations, and simulators.
DESERT STORM-Multinational operation
led by U.S. forces in January-February 1991
to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi conquest.
DESERT HAMMER-Name given to the AWE
conducted during NTC rotation 94-07. In
DESERT HAMMER, a digitized tank battalion task
force from the 194th Armored Brigade at Fort
Knox operated as part of a brigade task force
from the 24th Infantry Division.
The Modern Louisiana Maneuvers