The Joint Battle Lab Capability at The Canadian Joint Warfare Centre

CJWC is also home to the Joint Operations Fusion Lab, a CAF catalyst for the improvement and transformation of Command and Control, Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (JISR) and Targeting capabilities. This lab is still a nascent capability, but the objective is to deliver modern operational solutions through informed thought analysis, trials, and experimentation. It is an engineering and integration lab that supports the evolution and interoperability of JISR within the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) context, with the goal of eventually serving as the test bed for the National Defence Intelligence Operations Centre.

The network infrastructure that supports and enables the many objectives of The CJWC is the Canadian Forces Exercise and Experimentation Network (CFXNet). CFXNet is the network backbone which supports distributed exercises, collective training, capability development, experimentation, research and development, and modelling and simulation. CFXNet comprises of 15 networks, providing up to Level II (SECRET) connectivity between 70 Canadian sites at 35 geographic locations, and with Canada's international allies and NATO partners via interconnections to the global Combined Federated Battle Laboratory Network (CFBLNet) and the US Joint Test and Experimentation Network (JTEN).