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Enhanced Logistics Base (ELB) demonstration took place in Trondheim, Norway during exercise Trident Juncture 2018 (TRJE18). TRJE18 provides an environment for existing or new capabilities to be tested, refined, and further developed. By coordinating and integrating experiments from NATO entities and Nations into TRJE18, we seek to allow the best experimental results without placing exercise objectives at risk. Allied Command Transformation Operational Experimentation has assigned a TRJE18 Venue Coordinator since the number of TRJE18 experiments now exceeds 20 activities, ranging from discovery to validation.
This experiment will demonstrate future capabilities of autonomous and automatized systems within military logistics. The integrated Enhanced Logistic Base will cover all aspects of future logistics in a military-civilian demonstration to include a fully integrated autonomous and automatic logistics stream.
Video by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Abraham Essenmacher, Allied Command Transformation, Photojournalist
Shot-list
SOUNDBITE #1
Mr. Kristian Molander (NOR)
Airborne Personal Reconnaissance System (PRS) Supervisor and Operator
FLIR, UAS
SOUNDBITE (English)
Question 1:
What are some of the capabilities of the Black Hornet Reconnaissance
System?
00:00:14:57
“You will have instantly less than one minute after you deploy the system you will have cover over your friendly position so you can identify everything which is ahead of you with a range of two kilometers. With this system you can PID (Positive Identifcation) enemies, you can look for IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) on your route, you can do close protection of your own FRV (Final
Rendezvous) if you’re parked somewhere, and it has thousands of in-built functions when it comes to way points and navigation aides as well.”
Question 2:
What value does it add to a war fighting environment?
00:00:55:29
“Saving friendly lives and also avoiding collateral damage. I’ll explain to you; When you’re in the field moving by foot you want to avoid blind spots. If you’re taking fire from areas you can’t see you can use this system to identify stuff before you move into the line of fire. Second of all, PID’ing is very important these days so we don’t kill the wrong people. With this system you can fly forward, even if you only see the head of a person on a rooftop and you’re taking fire from that area, you use this system. You launch it and two minutes after you have live video from that area, just to have a weapon enough to decide if you want to take fire.”
Question 3: How easy is it to operate?
00:01:44:11
“I can teach you how to fly this in two minutes. I can teach you how to be an instructor in less than three days. Basically it’s super simple. It flies by itself, you’re just telling it where to go. It’s very intuitive, the menu and everything, so everyone understands when they start using it. It’s no secret that we train people from all kinds of countries that buys this.”
SOUNDBITE #2
Sergeant Samuel Margarini, United States Marine Corps (USA) 1st Maintenance Battalion, Camp Pendleton
Question 1:
What are some of the contributions 3D technology is making?
00:02:18:15
“3D capabilities allow us to manufacture parts that we usually do not attain through a normal means of supply. It also allows us to use innovation, to create things to help us out either in a field environment or back at home.”
Question 2:
How can this play a role in non-war time environment?
00:02:45:06
“Even in a non-wartime environment its still helpful because even now we still have parts, we still have gear that we order parts for and it takes days, sometimes months, some parts take a hundred days. We’ve manufactured parts that takes six hundred days to come in, and this gear is down so Marines are not able to get their training to use this gear so with 3D printing we’re able to recreate those parts so the Marines can actually use their equipment and use their gear.”
SOUNDBITE #3
Colonel Howard Mariotto, United States Marine Corps (USA) Headquarters Marine Corps, Installations & Logistics Additive Manufacturing Lead, Deputy Director
Question 1:
What are some of the latest capabilities of 3D printing?
00:03:26:53
“Pretty much if it’s a conventional material, metal or plastic, it can be 3D printed. If you can weld it or if you can turn it into a powder as a medal, you can 3D print out of it. So I think that’s surprising to people. I think that some people think about plastic parts or little toys or little things that people make, but you can make some very complex items. In some cases you can make
the plastic or the metal better than the original manufacturer can.”
Question 2:
What is a surprising way 3D technology is being used lately?
00:03:57:50
“I think some other unique capabilities are concrete. I would tell you right now, as far as we know, we are ahead of even the commercial sector in 3D printed concrete for structures. So when you think about ‘why would I want to 3D print concrete?’ Well, a lot of times you may not have the building materials or the expertise, but if you have the machine you can take a Marine who has CAD (Computer Aided Design) experience and they can create a building.”
# ENDS #
| Date Taken: | 10.29.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 11.01.2018 06:08 |
| Category: | Interviews |
| Video ID: | 636710 |
| VIRIN: | 181029-N-AD372-792 |
| Filename: | DOD_106172231 |
| Length: | 00:04:22 |
| Location: | NO |
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