Command, Control and Communications (C3) Driver

C3 Driver is an integrated collection of Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Tools in a single box that provides: End-to-end, system-of-systems event/exercise planning, monitoring, execution, and control; U.S. Army tool for creating, modifying and managing doctrinal mission threads developed by TRADOC; Data collection, aggregation, reduction, analysis, display, and storage (RICS2); and Integrated tools for exercising C4I interoperability. In addition, a family of products integrated under a common user interface that includes the following: Starship/StarGen - User interface and C2; RICS - Data collection and stimulation; DRA - Data reduction and Analysis; RPWS - Role playing capability; and Army approved message validation tools. C3 Driver makes testing more user friendly with an easy-to-use interface reducing the complexity of using sophisticated engineering analysis tools. Users are helped through the testing process by automatically configuring and using the appropriate tools. With C3 Driver, the effort and knowledge to configure and use a collection of advanced tools are reduced substantially. Categories of use include: assisting in the daily system-of-systems integration testing at the Central Test Support Facility (CTSF); developing Army Battle Command System (ABCS) threads for the Battle Command Integration Directorate (BCID); and testing by the Army tactical system developers of systems before they are formally evaluated.