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Harlan County reaping benefits of high-tech communications Tlu- |)n)C( ' ss ot tiilly- aiitomated message traffic dissemination for Harlan County stalled in December imr.i. The Little Creek based USS Har Ian County (LST 1196), currently deployed to the Indian Ocean as part of the USS Guam (LPH-9) Am phibious Readiness Group off the coast of Somalia, is enjoyirif; the benefits of years of telecomtnunua tions research and devolopmeiU with implementation of full auto mation of its message dissemination. The process of fully automated message traffic dissemination for Harlan County started in Decem- ber 1993 under the aegis of Ensign Brett Morash and RMCSiSWi Bar ly Atchison The communications modernization program was de- signed to take the ship into the 21st century and to create a u.ser-friend- 1 . paperless message delivery sys- tem for shipboard users, with max imum flexibility and ease of use Harlan County ' s first step in the upgrade began in December 1993 with installation of the message dissemination utility, or MDU, pro- gram that allowed shipboard radio men to process messages deliv- ered from the Naval Telecommunications Center L.ttle Creek on computer diskette rather than the usual paper copies Once the MDU program proved its reli- ability and ease of u.se. all ship- board pereonal computers were loaded with the MDU end user pro- gram. Delivery of the first message traffic on disk to users began on New Year ' s Eve 1993, Soon after implementation of tiie MDU program, Harlan County con tinued the modernization program by installing the Galegiiard inter face system on Jan. 7 of this year Gateguard further transferred back and forth between the ship and NTCC Little Creek vna existing phone lines and a secure telephone device, eliminating the need for shipboard radiomen to leave the ship to pick up message trafilc This increased secunty and sped up service. After completion of the installa tion and trial period of the inport interface portion of Gateguard. at tention vas directed to inipiemen tation of ' .ne afloat version, l. ' ..Jei the direction of ETC(SVV) Myron Ward and the technical know how of ETKSWi William Kimbark and ET2 Jay Grauberger. Harlan Coun ty was able to connect the Nav MAC ' S UYK 20 V2 to the Gale guard computer to allow Heet broadcast traffic to be automatical ly proces.sed via computer diskette In early Februar ' . the afloat ver- sion was tested at sea with out- standing results along with faster service and less paper usage At this point, 60 percent of Harlan County ' s message traffic process- ing was automated The only man- ual intervention required in radio central was to remove a disketlt froin the Gateguard computer and place it into the MDU computer lor automatic routing to user files In accordance with Chief of Na- val Operation direction, ship and station COs were now authonzed to waive the security requirement for local area networks for mes sage traffic With this knowledge. Harlan County radiomen sought a means to extend the automation nght into the users ' offices by use of the LAN Bringing the messages nght to the users ' PC was accom plished by use of the message dis semination subsystem program that was acquired from Naval Com puter and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic in Norfolk, Once installed on the LAN and implemented by RM3 Earnest Van- dail, users were given access to their individual message traffic from any computer terminal at- tached to the LAN svsteni Final iiisiallatiiin nl the Gateguard NDS iiilei-face took place prior to Fleet hixenise 2 94. thereby completing total automation of Harlan Coun ty ' s message traffic delivery sys- tem Most recently. Vandall has provided technical assistance to numerous other ships in their ef forts to automate message processing The system has served Ha- ' an County well during its present de- ployment Users are able to get the latest traffic at their fingertips, ajiy time, day or night Harlan County ' s success with the fully-automated message dellverv ' system is a tes ' .a- ment to the hard work and dili- gence of the ship ' s communica- tions and electronics personnel Morash stated, We would not have been able to do this unless I had the full support of my electrjn- ics technicians and radiomen wr rk- ing together for a common goal. The support that we have received from the command. NCTAMSI ant and NTCC Little Creek has made this automation possible. Ambrose, a terminal user of the system, said. This is an outsl;ind- ing system It brings us into the realm of the paperless Navy It also lets me decide what messages are important and pertinent to me ' Harlan County Operations Offi- cer Lt Jim Henn.- described the system as the best system to hit the fleet in mv in vcars of service 1 1 KSD.W. |l K JS, I ' All Norfolk-based warships head to Indian Ocean BY DALE ElSMAN s I II A ' 1; WASHINGTON - Four Norfolk- based warships carrying about 2,000 Marines moved south through the Suez Canal on Monday, headed for the Indian Ocean in what a Clinton administration official de- scribed as a response to deteriorat- ing conditions in Somalia. The Guam, an amphibious as- sault ship; the Austin, an amphibi ous transport dock ship; the Tortu- ga, a dock landing ship; and the Harlan County ' , a tank landing ship, are carrying the 26th Marine Expe- ditionary Unit from Camp Lejeune, N.C. The ships and their crews are based at Little Creek Naval Am- phibious Base and are on a regular- ly scheduled deployment. They had been operating in the Mediterra- nean Sea. About 50 Marines are in Somalia, assigned to guard the U.S. embassy in Mogadishu. They ' re the last remnants of a force that reached 26.000 in late 1992. after then-Pres- ident George Bush sent them in to protect humanitarian relief efforts. After failing in an effort to cap- ture a Soinali warlord, the Clinton administration pulled out of the di vided and impovenshed country this spring Since then, there have been reports of escalating fighting and terronsm in Somalia, long torn hv civil ■a ,
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