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26 Message from Cdr SigCen to PEOs, PMs, and
TRADOC School/Center Commandants/Commanders,
171928Z Mar 93, sub: Brigade and Below Data Distribution,
references a 17 February 1993 Senior Officer
Review at which GEN Franks asked the Signal
Center to resolve standardization of protocols and
battlefield functional areas. Numerous meetings and
communications over the course of the next seven
months led to discussions of concerns about the capabilities
of different systems and standards with only
partial resolution of the issues. See extensive documentation
in historian's files.
27 Sullivan, Comments, 17 October 1997, p. 2.
See also Interview, MG Ronald E. Adams with
Yarrison, 13 February 1998, pp. 1-3, and Interview,
Tilelli with Yarrison, 26 January 1998, pp. 5-9. Tilelli
observed that at the point where Adams' STF was established,
the Army's leadership was still grappling
with what digitization meant and portended. As
Adams points out in the interview cited, his STF's
definition of digitization was the first he had seen.
28 Interview, Adams with Yarrison, 13 February
1998, pp. 6-10. The Director of Information Systems,
Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
(DISC4) is a member of the Army Secretariat. The
Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation is an Army
Staff officer in OCSA. See also Briefing, STF on Digitization,
''The Army Vision: Control the OPTEMPO +
Control the Environment + Control the Battlespace =
The Digitized Battlefield," 22 December 1993, passim.
See, in addition, Interview, Oder with LTC James J
Carafano, 23 September 1996, passim.
29 See Appendix G, A Chronology of Army Digitization
Efforts, 1991-1995, with associated documents,
in historian's files. See also Interview, Oder with LTC
James J Carafano, 23 September 1996, pp. 4-6, and
Interview, Rigby with Carafano, 17 September 1996,
pp. 4- 16.
30 GOWG II Executive Summary for BG Franks, undated,
Tab E, Issue 10. See also Board of Directors
Meeting II, 5 March 1993, Issue: Exploitation of
Space; and Louisiana Maneuvers Board of Directors
Meeting, 20 October 1993, Tab F-8, Exploitation of
Space, which includes the issue evaluation plan. In
LAM TF Files: Box 5, File 4-3; Box 5, File 4-5; and
Box 6, File 4-9, respectively.
31 Interview, LTC Kirby Brown with Yarrison, 6
August 1996, pp. 15-17. See also u.S. Army Space and
Strategic Defense Command Memorandum for the
Louisiana Maneuvers Board of Directors, 5 October
1993, sub: Issue Evaluation Plan Executive Summary,
with enclosures, in LAM TF Files, Box 11, File 5-3b.
See a series of articles in Army, 43: 12 (December 1993):
Donald M. Lionetti, "The Shields and Swords of a 21st­
Century Army, " 16-20; James J Cravens, "Cruise Missiles
Become Increasing Threat," 22-25; Tommy R.
Franks and Kirby R. Brown, "Meeting the Challenges
from Space," 26. Message, CDR USACAC to CJTF
Somalia, 011436Z November 1993, sub : Commercially
Av ailable Space Based Capabilities, solicits that
Commander's input for the design of the package. In
LAM TF Files, Box 3, File 3-6e3. See also Memorandum
for Sullivan from GEN Franks, 12 January 1994,
sub: FY93 LAM Commercial Space Package (CSP),
which lays out the package to be acquired, and
Sullivan's response, January 1994, sub : SAB, in Sullivan
Papers, Correspondence/Flag Letters/General Office/
Message Files, Box 8B of 10, January-February 1994,
Folder 4, January 1994 General Office Files, file 13.
32 Messages, Cdr Field Artillery Center to Franks,
171930Z Dec 91, sub: Owning the Night (in Franks,
SG AD , MSG-132, pp. 25-26) , and Cdr Signal Center
to Franks, 191624Z Dec 91, same sub (in Franks, SG
AD , MSG-118, pp. 13-14), respond to Franks' Message
to schools/MSCs, 061910Z Nov 91, same sub.
Both messages evaluate their respective branches'
nightfighting capabilities. See also TRADOC DCS­
CDD chart for HQ, TRADOC, Review and AnalYSiS,
1st Qtr, FY 92, 11 Feb 92, sub: Owning the Night.
The chart lists actions taken to that point, indicating
the effort: "involves partiCipation of CG and DCS­
CDD; answers CSA question to CG; all TRADOC
schools/MSCs participating; AMC partiCipating; TF
assembled for Jan [92] assessment; assessment includes:
night vision, electro-optical, primary weapons
systems, radar, laser, lEW, and satellite systems."
In Franks, SG AD ALPHA-063, HQ TRADOC Semi­
Annual Review and Analysis, 21 February 1992. MG
White (in "Owning the Night," Infantry, May-June
1992, 1-2) discusses night fighting equipment. Franks
established the Dismounted Battlespace Battle Lab in
August 1992 and assigned owning-the-night responsibilities
to it. Additional discussions, experiments,
and briefings led to a Senior Officer Review at Ft.
Benning, 3 December 1992, that included owning the
night, the week before GOWG II. See Letter, White
to Franks, 10 December 1992, sub: Senior Officer
Review, in Franks, SG AD , COR-098, MG Jerry A.
White. See copy of the charter, Franks to White, 26
January 1993, in historian's files, original at DBBL.
See Appendix F
33 Interview, COL William Hubbard with Yarrison,
9 July 1996, pp. 22-23, and 16July 1996, pp. 38-40.
See also, Interview, Franks with Yarrison, 18 February
1997, pp. 24-25.
34 See Second LAM GOWG, 7-8 December 1992,
files in which "continuous operations" is defined as
an issue. LAM TF Files, Box 5, File 4-3. See also Louisiana
Maneuvers Board of Directors Meeting, 20 October
1993, booklet, Tab F, '94 Issue Evaluation Plans,
Tab 7, Continuous Operations, in LAM TF Files, Box
6, File 4-9. See also Appendix F, Owning the Night
Chronology. Supporting documents in Historian's
files.
35 See Sullivan message, 191223Z Oct 92, sub:
Louisiana Maneuvers Board of Directors Meeting, 14
Oct 92, Personal for attendees and others, on the concept
coming out of the BoD, in LAM TF Files, Box 5,
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