Mark Postal NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A)

2000

The transition of new C2ISR technologies and capabilities to the warfighter in a useful and timely manner is a longstanding challenge, which is often met through unique solutions to specific warfighter problems, and often compromising interoperability in combat and other field operations. Interoperability is now a major concern and the focus of C2ISR development. The most effective way to address this concern is through the integrated development of C2ISR components. However, integration is not readily accommodated in the present acquisition and PPBS processes, one reason why there has been lots of discussion with modest results. In this paper we recommend a new approach to integration, namely that integration be viewed as an explicit result, not just as an attribute of C2ISR systems. We then look at the processes and the problems from this perspective and make some recommendations for providing integrated and interoperable new technology to the warfighter in a timely manner.

2004

Under the umbrella of NATO, the ATCCIS Permanent Working Group developed the Army/Allied Tactical Command and Control Information System (ATCCIS) Data Model for a couple of years, establishing an unprecedented amount of international agreement on information exchange requirements on the battlefield. The model was recently established as the Allied Data Publication Standard No. 32 (AdatP-32) under the name “Land Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (LC2IEDM).” As the concepts are not bound to land services, the name was changed to “Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (C2IEDM).” An alternative name used referring to the same model is “Generic Hub” or “Battlefield Generic Hub.” Due to its high level of maturity, this data model also became the data model of the Multilateral Interoperability Program (MIP), established by NATO to interconnect their C3I systems. Although various prototypes using the ATCCIS/C2IEDM data model to connect C3I and M&S systems hav...

2001

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2003

ABSTRACT: Despite the presence of technical solutions such as the Joint Technical Architecture (JTA) and the Common Operating Environment (COE), and despite the political will manifested in form of mandates by the superior leadership to use respective common frameworks, the story of common projects of the Modeling & Simulations (M&S) Community and the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) Systems Community is more or less limited to a story of building interfaces. This may change in the near future. Both communities are within something that can become a paradigm shift. While the technical and architectural solutions of the past were system focused, the new emerging solutions are looking at distributed, composable functionality connected by a common infosphere. The system-of-systems approach places the information into the center. Distributed components deliver necessary functionality to manipulate and analyze the information to increase the efficiency ...

1991

Training Simulation Approved for public release; ditribution is unlimited. iii The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) Future Battlefield Conditions Team at Fort Knox conducts research to address critical aspects of command, control, and communication (C 3 ): soldier performance, soldiermachine interface (SMI), and simulation. A key objective of the task, entitled "Training Requirements for the Future Integrated Battlefield," is to provide research-based recommendations for presentation of information to operators and to provide methods to use soldier-in-the-loop simulation to prove the value of automated C3 to the maneuver forces. Work conducted under this program is supported by Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) between ARI-KNOX and the U.S. Army Armor Center (USAARMS) dated 12 April 1989 and ARI-KNOX and the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Command (TACOM) dated 22 March 1989. The research was conducted using the Close Combat Test Bed (CCTB) at Fort Knox. The CCTB uses selective fidelity networked simulation to represent battlefield environments for soldier parformance research. This report presents findings and recommendations on the SMI of an automated C system: the Combat Vehicle Command and Control (CVCC) system. The CVCC is an experimental configuration that supports the requirements of AirLand Battle by increasing the ability of lower-echelon commanders to synchronize, plan, and control combined arms operations throughout their respective areas of influence. CVCC capabilities include a Commander's Independent Thermal Viewer (CITV), a real-time tactical map display, position navigation (POSNAV), and the ability to electronically prepare, transmit, and receive reports, battlefield intelligence, and orders. This report provides information to developers of automated C 3 systems and to evaluators testing those systems. Results of this effort have been briefed to the USAARMS Directorate of Combat Developments (DCD) and the Director, Vetronics Division, TACOM Research, Development and Engineering Center.

선진국방연구, 2022

Armed forces across the globe have been continuously modernizing through the deployment of hi-tech computers and nanotechnologies to perfect information acquisition and analysis and data transmission during missions and operations to make them more powerful and enhance their competitive advantage. This study presents an overview of the opportunities provided by twenty-first century military technologies and their advantages, specifically in terms of system integration, communications, and capability to shape modern warfare. The study concludes by recommending the importance of the Ministry of Defense through the provision of adequate funds and budgetary allocations for research, development, and procurement of high-tech equipment like TALOS, FIST, FELIN, IDZ-ZES, RATNIK-3 smart suits for tactical operations to support soldiers for an effective discharge of assigned combat missions during insurgencies and battlefield reconnaissance and domination.

2002

2004

tailored set of self-consistent standards, processes and practices employing a set of web-based technologies and services to enable a new generation of Internet-distributed applications to emerge, develop and interoperate. Many software systems that composably scale to worldwide scope utilize the World Wide Web. Therefore, it is evident that an extensible web-enabled framework offers great promise to scale up the capabilities of M&S systems to meet the needs of training, analysis, acquisition, and the operational warfighter. By embracing commercial web technologies as a shared-communications platform and a ubiquitous-delivery framework, NATO M&S can fully leverage the burgeoning commercial web services industry. XMSF has several high-level requirements derived from years of experience with M&S frameworks, and the challenges of their effective deployment across diverse networks and systems. XMSF must enable simulations to interact directly and scalably over a highly distributed network, achieved through compatibility between a web framework and networking technologies. XMSF must be equally usable by human and software agents. Clearly XMSF must support composable, reusable model components. XMSF use cannot be constrained by proprietary technology or legally encumbering patents which might discourage the free, open, ad hoc development of interconnected tactical models and simulations.

European Security and Defense, 2023

Nearly every day, the news from the fighting in Ukraine includes the unmasking, targeting, and destruction of a Russian or Ukrainian tactical Command Post (CP). Imagine what it takes to reconstitute a destroyed brigade or division CP . Numerous generals, hundreds of colonels, and senior operators have been killed in these strikes since the start of the war. NATO cannot afford to lose CPs the way the Russians and Ukrainians have in the Russia–Ukraine War. Russian CP configurations at the start of the conflict were not much different from NATO’s CPs. Based on these insights, it is vital to rethink how modern military forces prepare their CPs for combat. Preparing tactical CPs for the next war is a vital task that demands immediate action, lest we fall victim to ignoring the poignant and deadly lessons learned from recent and ongoing conflicts.

Information & Security: An International Journal, 2005

The article describes a set of communications and IT modules that has been successfully tested in a number of emergency management exercises. The modules integrate advanced, commercially available technologies, and may serve as a pool of building blocks in the creation of advanced C4 systems for a variety of multinational, multi-agency operations, e.g. peacekeeping, stabilization operations, post-conflict reconstruction, disaster relief, humanitarian operations, etc. The authors argue that when this concept is combined with a smart approach towards development and management of a common architecture of the operation, it leads to cost-effective solutions to a number of interoperability, security and information sharing issues in coalition and emergency operations.