CENTRIXS , the core of Malabar 07
Malabar Exercises 07-2 had 5 nationalities participating and were speaking one language called CENTRIXS. AS per United States Navy, Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS) is a Coalition Tactical C4I system, designed to be a global, interoperable, interconnected, inexpensive, and easy-to-use information sharing system.
The U.S. Navy provided seven Indian Navy ships with Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System - Combined Maritime Forces Pacific (CENTRIXS – CMFP). A CENTRIXS Fly Away Kit (a laptop, antenna, and encryption device) was provided on each of the Indian ships in order for them to communicate securely with the other ship. The exchange system is just like the Internet but on a much smaller scale. It can be accessed only at particular workstations with specific encryption. CMFP is a small segment of CENTRIXS and was first time used in a larger scale during Exercise RIMPAC 2006. India was one of the observers of RIMPAC 2006, for the likely participation in RIMPAC 2008.
The five participating navies: Indian, Australian, Singaporean, Japanese and U.S., 22 ships in all, were all able to communicate via chatrooms and email, with each other and to the exercise headquarters on shore in New Delhi via CENTRIXS.
CDR Dawn Cutler,Public Affairs Officer, US Seventh Fleet, in an email to Frontier India wrote “for the U.S. Navy Sailors, working with the Indian Navy was a great experience and an even greater experience was introducing CENTRIXS to them.
The US is converting its entire Global Command and Control System (GCCS)-K to CENTRIXS-K. The CENTRIXS system currently includes six multinational enclaves that feature e-mail, same-time chat, VoIP, collaboration at sea and common operational picture services. CENTRIXS is now being enhanced and its reach is being expanded to other nations.
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