Makalapa Command Briefing Center

The Fleet Briefing Room, Makalapa, serves as the primary presentation, briefing, and
communications room for COMPACFLT, senior staff members, and other flag rank officers. This facility is equipped with the latest video communications and video display technologies to provide an integrated approach to the management of voice, video, and data into one seamless information processing and display system to aid in command level decision making. In the 21st Century with IT-21 and NMCI, COMPACFLT will be able to coordinate with forward deployed commands and other units by video teleconference, utilizing face-to-face communications, real-time exchange of graphics, and instantaneous situation de-conflicting.
The FBR is equipped with display capabilities that enable participants to see, read, and understand data and video information presented during briefings and potential crisis situations. A Synelec videowall acts as one seamless video display with the capability to display any combination of live video, still video, and graphics for up to eight (8) live video sources and an unlimited number of frozen video or graphics. These include remote video conferencing sites in up to 8 video windows as well as graphics from networked workstations both in the FBR and in the FCC. Other graphic images include video from laptop computers brought into the FBR and used for local presentations. Video and graphic Images can be displayed using a single cube or multiple cubes and can be sized from the smallest pixel to the entire videowall. In addition, when using multiple cubes, resolution is cumulative and provides the capabilities to display
full resolution workstations. This capability to display multiple windows of varying sizes in any resolution allows participants to clearly discern information brought into the room over NMIC and dial-up video conferencing networks. In essence, the Synelec videowall functions as an extremely large computer monitor where it’s large display surface size allows many multiple widows to be open at the same time, and allows many FBR participants to see displayed information where it can be discussed, manipulated, and managed to aid in the decision making process.