
Soldiers assigned to 10th Special Forces Group, debark a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, March 9, 2016, at Hurlburt Field, Fla. As the system currently stands, planners lean heavily on a combination of tools like Sharepoint, network drives and email to get info out, which can lead to confusion over where current information is located.

“It’s a lot of coordination of information, structuring it and communicating it out in near real time,” explained the developer. Often, mission requirements and resources change at the last second, the developer said, making it difficult to keep everyone in the loop. But it wasn’t clear why.Īfter visiting units at Fort Campbell and elsewhere to investigate further, developers realized that units weren’t tracking performance or memorializing what worked (or what didn’t), they weren’t effectively communicating mission changes in a timely manner and they didn’t have standardized training or products available for the battalion air planners. Division officials lamented that “we relearn and it always seems to just barely come together near the end of the planning periods,” the developer recounted.
