Battle labs explore new concepts for warfare.

• Author: Kennedy, Harold
• Position: Brief Article

The Defense Department has created the following additional test beds for exploring new warfare concepts:

* The Joint Warfighting Center, operated by the joint staff at Fort Monroe, Va., guides the development of ways for the services to improve their cooperation on the battlefield.

* The Joint C41SR Battle Center, at nearby Suffolk, Va., works to assure interoperability of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. It also provides combatant commandeers at the joint task-force level with assessments and a state-of-the art environment for modeling and simulation experiments.

* The Army has 10 battle labs, Mounted Battlespace, Dismounted Battlespace, Command and Control, Depth and Simultaneous Attack, Combat Service Support, Maneuver Support, Air Maneuver, and Space and Missile Defense. All 10 operate...