Directorate of Combat Developments Directorate of Combat Developments is the architect of battlefield communications which are used to transport information throughout the battlefield and to the continental United States. The Battle Command Battle Lab at Fort Gordon is one of three labs chartered by Training and Doctrine Command with responsibility for the battle-command battlefield functional area. The Gordon battle lab works with labs at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Fort Huachuca, Ariz., but focuses specifically on the means for providing command and control. The staff seeks and develops technical solutions to satisfy battle-command needs, both current and in the future.
Battle labs evaluate concepts and emerging technologies that support the national military strategy.
Each TSM serves as the Signal Regiment's focal point for all activities pertaining to these mission programs and ensures the user community's systems requirements are developed, refined, integrated and implemented as these programs progress through development, deployment and lifecycle. TECO conducts low-intensity tests, and it supports the battle lab and DCD in demonstrating, documenting and experimenting. The directorate supports the Regiment's leadership, DCD, TSMs, battle lab and TECO with a research psychologist and engineering technician.