The Olympus planning System has been trialed by many
areas of the armed forces both in the UK and abroad. The system is usually
| JWID |
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Over the past four years the Olympus
Planning System has been deployed at JWID. It has been nominated
for pull through funding twice and received a JWID silver award
in 2002.
At JWID the system is fully integrated into the
Coalition WAN (CWAN) and provides distributed plans and situational
awareness.
Some of the areas that Olympus has covered at JWID
are:
- Operational Picture Interface
- Land Component Commander (LCC); plans & current situation
- ACO Compiler
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| Exercise
Saif Sareea 2 |
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The Olympus Planning System was
deployed to Saif Sareea as part of the Exercise Control (EXCON)
management system.
The system was used to maintain the current blue
forces picture and distribute this information via an interactive
web interface to over 200 exercise management machines.
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| Command
& Control Development Centre (C2DC) |
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A version of the Olympus Planning System lives with C2DC at Warminster.
They are responsible for doctrine development and are looking
at the birdtable (eBT,ebird) as an adjunct to BOWMAN within the
headquarters.
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| DERA,
DSTL & QinetiQ |
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The Olympus Planning system has been evaluated and used in exercises
by all three agencies.
The system has shown its compatibility with the BOWMAN infrastructure
using the QinetiQ BOWMAN emulator at a low bandwidth(9.6 KBaud)
and has been demonstrated over the HF comms of a naval ship by
DSTL.
The Human sciences groups at the agencies are very interested
in the HCI of the Olympus system and have shown the systems intuitive
user interface to produce a high SUMI score.
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| 1 Mech
Bde |
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1 Mech Bde trialed the smaller display component
of the Olympus system. Ultrascribes were placed in the back of Armoured
Personnel Carriers on Salisbury Plain and were connected into the
1 Mech wireless network.
1 Mech then drew up a set of plans using standard military planning
methodology and then demonstrated their end product to Gen Sir Michael
Jackson.
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| Exercise
Aurora |
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The Olympus Planning System was deployed on-board HMS Albion
with 3 Cdo Bde during Exercise Aurora. It was the first time that
the software was used in the littoral zone with both naval charts
and land maps.
The system had the capability to import and export information
from CSS and successfully exported data to the coalition ship
USS Nassau.
The trial proved a success and the trial report showed that the
system reduced the time take to plan by a third.
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| NITEworks |
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The Olympus system was used in the NITEworks
Indirect Fire Integration (IFI) exercise. The system was network
connected and passed live data between itself and the battle management
system using standard military messaging formats (ADAT-P3, USMTF,
OTHT-G).
The Olympus system served two functions:
- Air Coordination between JFAC and OSG
- General Situational Awareness
The exercise proved a success and the redeployment
of the same equipment is expected for the second IFI exercise.
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| 3 (UK) Div |
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After 3 Div had used the eBT component of the Olympus Planning
system at the NITEworks experiment they asked us to bring it to
their headquarters for demonstration to the staff collage.
The eBT was deployed in the units forward headquarters and was
demonstrated as part of the headquarters future capability.
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