The development of the system is managed by Project Manager, Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below, a component of the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office – Command Control and Communications Tactical (PEO C3T). PEO C3T is based at
Aberdeen Proving Ground in
Aberdeen, Maryland. The original Army Program Executive Officer was William Campbell (LtG, ret). The original contractor program manager was
Neil Siegel. FBCB2 was tested under the First Digitized Division
4th Infantry Division (United States) based in
Fort Hood, Texas, and 1/25 infantry out of
Fort Lewis, Washington. series of what were called "Advanced Warfighting Experiments" at the
National Training Center near Barstow, California, starting in 1997. The division conducted Limited User Test on the equipment in 1998, and the system was approved for production. FBCB2 was then tested and implemented under the
Force XXI concept that stemmed from
Operation Desert Storm/
Shield. The
United States Army and the
United States Marines Corps reached agreement to standardize on a new variant of the system to be called Joint Capabilities Release (JCR) developed by the Project Manager, Joint Battle Command-Platform (PM JBC-P) that was fielded in 2013. JCR takes advantage of the BFT-2 network, a new satellite infrastructure that can handle significantly more data than the first BFT. ==Deployment==