DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Regimental Combat Team 7 Afghanistan

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Col. Randy Newman, regimental commanding officer, 7th Marines. Photo courtesy of 7th Marines.

We recently held a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with U.S. Marine Corps Col. Randy Newman, regimental commanding officer, 7th Marines on Tuesday, Dec.7.

Col. Newman recently returned from a year-long deployment as commander of Regimental Combat Team 7 in Afghanistan. He discussed his leadership experience in Afghanistan and combat and civil operations there.

He also discussed the work his Marines did and the challenges that remain.

Listen to the interview.

Read the transcript.

Read the Defense.gov story: Time, Trust Key to Progress in Afghanistan

Joining us on the call were Richard Lowry, of OP-FOR; Chuck Simmins, of America’s North Shore Journal; Robert Haddick, of Small Wars Journal; John McCandless, of the Navy Log Blog; Christian Lowe, of Military.com; and Troy Steward, of Bouhammer.com.

DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Exercise Bold Alligator 2011

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Rear Adm. Kevin Scott, Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Two (ESG 2)

We recently held a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with Rear Admiral Kevin Scott, Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Two (ESG 2), on Tuesday, Dec. 7.

Scott will be the Navy’s embarked Commander Amphibious Task Force for Exercise Bold Alligator 2011, which is a U.S. naval amphibious exercise that will focus on conducting major amphibious operations simultaneously with a non-combatant evacuation. This is the most significant and robust exercise within the USN-USMC amphibious community in almost 10 years.

Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Two (ESG 2), and Commander, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2nd MEB) in coordination with ships assigned to the U.S. Second Fleet will conduct a joint large-scale fleet synthetic training amphibious exercise, which will concentrate on the fundamental roles as “fighters from the sea.” Its focus is based on the joint goal of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) to revitalize and return to the fundamental amphibious roles as “fighters from the sea”.

The exercise will focus improve amphibious force readiness and proficiency for executing the six core capabilities of the Maritime Strategy – forward presence, deterrence, sea control, power projection, maritime security and humanitarian assistance/disaster response.

Listen to the interview.

Read the transcript.

Read the Defense.gov story: Navy, Marine Corps Prepare for Amphibious Training

Joining us on the call were Andrew Lubin, of Leatherneck Magazine;  John McCandless, of the Navy Log Blog; Robert Haddick, of the Small Wars Journal; Richard Lowry, of OP-FOR; and Tom Goering, of Navy Cyberspace.

Check out the other Exercise Bold Alligator 2011 post on DoDLive.mil:

DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Condor Supercomputer

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Mark Barnell, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) high performance computing director and Condor Cluster project engineer.

We recently held a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with Mark Barnell, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) high performance computing director and Condor Cluster project engineer on Thursday, Dec. 2.

Barnell spoke about the Information Directorate’s success of linking together the “Condor Cluster”, a heterogeneous supercomputer comprised of commercial-off-the shelf commodity components including 1,716 Sony Playstation III® (PS3) game consoles and 168 General.

Purpose Graphical Processing Units. Barnell said of the supercomputer, “it is more  powerful than other systems in the DoD inventory that cost millions more to acquire and operate.”

The AFRL Information Directorate will officially unveil the new Condor Cluster supercomputer in Rome N.Y. on Dec. 1.

Listen to the interview.

Read the transcript.

Read the Defense.gov story: Gaming Console Supercomputer Can Read, Correct Input

Joining us on the call were Chuck Simmins, of America’s North Shore Journal; Sandra Erwin, of National Defense Magazine; Jill Laster, of the Air Force Times; and Karen Weaver Cox.

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DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Exercise Bold Alligator 2011

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U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Christopher S. Owens, deputy commanding general, II Marine Expeditionary Force, the Marine component of Exercise Bold Alligator 2011

We recently held a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with Brig. Gen. Christopher S. Owens, deputy commanding general, II Marine Expeditionary Force, the Marine component of Exercise Bold Alligator 2011 on Thursday, Dec. 2.

After more than ten years of fighting in land-locked warfare throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, the Navy/Marine Corps team is working hard to revitalize its amphibious capability and reassert its role as “fighters from the sea” with Exercise Bold Alligator 2011.

This exercise, scheduled to occur from Dec. 11-17, 2010, has been designed to reacquaint brigades and group level commands with their amphibious doctrine, tactical skill sets and logistical requirements in accordance with the Commandant’s intent for Marines to get back to their “amphibious roots.”

Exercise Bold Alligator 2011 is the first installment in what will be a training program of regularly scheduled large amphibious exercises involving the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Expeditionary Strike Group 2. It is a synthetic version of the exercise executed from two Navy assault amphibious ships – the USS Iwo Jima and USS Bataan – and multiple simulation centers which will provide in-depth analysis of landing timetables, weather conditions, fires effects, etc. The next scheduled event for amphibious training on this scale is a live Bold Alligator exercise scheduled for February 2012, which will build off the data and foundations set by this year’s synthetic exercise.

Listen to the interview.

Read the transcript.

Read the Defense.gov story: Marines, Navy to Conduct Synthetic Amphibious Exercise

Joining us on the call were Andrew Lubin of the Military Observer; and Sandra Erwin, of National Defense Magazine.

DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Integration of C4ISR Capabilities

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David Jimenez, Associate Director of Systems Engineering

Jason Sypniewski, chief for CERDEC’s C4ISR & Network Modernization Integrated Event Design and Analysis Branch

We recently held a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with members of the U.S. Army Research,Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics center (CERDEC) on Thursday, Dec. 2.

David Jimenez, Associate Director of Systems Engineering and Jason Sypniewski, chief for CERDEC’s C4ISR & Network Modernization Integrated Event Design and Analysis Branch discussed the Army’s efforts to integrate C4ISR capabilities (such as sensors, transport, application and data fusion systems) during the early stages of R&D.  CERDEC is the Army’s main developer, supplier, and integrator of C4ISR into Army Systems and Platforms.

Additionally, Jimenez and Sypniewski discussed evaluating interoperability, spectrum constraints, security, power draw, cognitive impact and other human, environmental and technical factors associated with the SoS approach.

The Army network of the future will be a system-of-systems, so it is paramount that capabilities and systems be integrated and assessed in a relevant environment early in their development process in order to see how they will perform together.

Listen to the interview.

Read the transcript.

Read the Defense.gov story: Army Researchers Work to Improve Information Systems

Joining us on the call were Shaun Waterman, of the Washington Times; and Dan Washington, of Janes.

Check out the other U.S. Army CERDEC related roundtables:

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