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CC44I for the Objective ForceI for the Objective Force
2800 Powder Mill RdAdelphi, MD 20783
Direct Fire Function
Infantry Carrier Function
Indirect Fire Function
Sensor Function
Organic & Inorganic
RSTA
NetworkNetworkCentricCentric
Dr. John W. Gowens II
The Army Research Laboratory
“Command and control systems-based on information and communications technology - and precision-guided munitions are be critical to all stages of the Pentagon's efforts to transform itself to deal with 21st century threats. ---- Paul Wolfowitz, DSECDEF at AIAA lunch,19 Feb 02.
“The area with the greatest potential payoff...is in C4ISR... (to) ensure our commanders have the best information for rapid battlefield decision-making” ---- Gen Richard B. Meyers, CJCS, SASC testimony, 5 Feb 02
The VisionThe VisionBattlespace Dominance through Information Superiority
CC44I for the Objective I for the Objective ForceForce
Objective: A fully mobile and lightweight force with internetted C4I with
Communications on-the-move for the mobile commander
Tactical network security
High bandwidth for burst communications
Energy efficient networking for sensor networks
Decision support tools for Unit of Action
Communications On-The-MoveCommunications On-The-Move
Fully-mobile, fully-communicating, situation-aware force operating in a highly dynamic, mobile networking environment
Challenges: Scalability to thousands of nodes Operate over wireless channels with high
levels of interference, jamming, and EW threats
Operate on-the-move with highly mobile nodes AND infrastructure
Severe energy, bandwidth, spectrum, and computational constraints
QoS, LPI, LPD, and security requirements Seamless interoperability
Projects: Self-Configuring Wireless
Networks Efficient End-to-End
Networking Comms Signal Processing Tactical Network Security Free-Space Optical
Communications
Array Transmitter Array ReceiverScattering Channel
Energy-Efficient NetworkingEnergy-Efficient Networking
Energy-efficient communications for heterogeneous, distributed unattended networked microsensors and robotics
Challenges: Robust communications in highly energy and
bandwidth-constrained environment Self-organizing ad hoc networks adapting to:
Various delivery mechanisms Node failures Intermittent connectivity Mobility
Operate over noisy wireless channels with: Severe near-earth propagation effects
(1/R4 versus 1/R2) Limits on antenna gain at low launch angles Multipath, fading, and multi-access
interference
Protection of sensor information while forward-deployed
Projects: Highly-Efficient Media
Access and Topology Control
Energy-Efficient Miniature Radios
Energy-Efficient Sensor Networking
Decision Support ToolsDecision Support Tools
Decision support for the commander-on-the-move
Challenges: Automated tools to support the flow and
synchronization of data/information among humans and computers
Conventional user interface (mouse and keyboard) distracts cognitive process
An automated way to integrate & visualize the complexity of battle space
Transformation of data to information and information into knowledge
Seamless information access of legacy data sources
Distributed/remote processing
Projects: Collaboration Technologies Battlefield Visualization Multilingual Computing Global Enterprise
Integration
Integrated C4IIntegrated C4I
CommunicationsSoldier/Agent Collaboration
PhysicalAgents
SoftwareAgents
BattlefieldVisualization
Soldiers
Multimodal Interaction
Intuitive Visualization
Unattended Ground Sensors
““Heavy forces must be more strategically deployable Heavy forces must be more strategically deployable and more agile with a smaller logistical footprint, and more agile with a smaller logistical footprint, and light forces must be more lethal, survivable and light forces must be more lethal, survivable
and tactically mobile. "and tactically mobile. "
". . . provide survivability through . . . long-range ". . . provide survivability through . . . long-range acquisition, deep targeting, early attack, and acquisition, deep targeting, early attack, and first round kill . . . ”first round kill . . . ”