Team evaluates combat identification

(EXCERPT) by Capt. David Small and Navy Cmdr. Tom Gresback Joint
Combat Identification Exercise Public Affairs

8/14/2003 - GULFPORT, Miss. (AFPN) -- Nearly 2,000 people participated
in a joint combat-identification exercise at the Combat Readiness
Training Center here Aug. 4 to 14. The exercise focused on identifying
targets when systems disagree on the target’s coordinates.

An example might be when an E-8C Joint Stars and a RQ-1 Predator
unmanned aerial vehicle both identify an enemy target on the ground,
but there is a kilometer difference in the coordinates.

During the U.S. Joint Forces Command exercise, several teams of
analysts captured virtually every aspect of the event and worked to
determine the root cause of inconsistent data. Then the analysts
forwarded their recommenda...

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