US Army air defense artillery soldiers inspect a THAAD launcher in the Middle East. (US Army photo)
WASHINGTON — The Army announced the establishment of a new operational facility, dubbed Reveille Forge, where service members, industry and academia can come together to integrate their products with existing government-owned equipment, namely those supporting integrated air and missile defense systems.
According to a Wednesday service release, the new testing facility, formally known as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), piggy backs off the Army’s recent Operation Jail Break — a sprint concluded last month in which vendors partnered to open up the interfaces of legacy and new equipment with the goal of making them interoperable to share data and information. The Army is “institutionalizing that momentum” with the new IDE, the release said.
“Operation Jailbreak proved what’s possible when industry, government, and academia stop working in silos and start working as one team,” Lt. Gen. Frank Lozano, the Army’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) for Fires, said in the release.
The new IDE also compliments the service’s Application Programming Interface (API) marketplace, which the Army stood up in May, the release stated. The API marketplace is a forum where industry can “securely” publish their interfaces for others to review, which “enables faster collaboration,” according to the Army.
