Download or read book Communications and Information Systems for Battlefield Command and Control written by M. A. Rice and published by Potomac Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise presentation, beginning with an account of the enabling technologies and discussing the way in which design has to respond to the constraints of the battlefield environment. It ends with a look to the future. For military enthusiasts, junior officers and cadets. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Information Management for an Automated Battlefield Command and Control System written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Realizing the Potential of C4I written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid progress in information and communications technologies is dramatically enhancing the strategic role of information, positioning effective exploitation of these technology advances as a critical success factor in military affairs. These technology advances are drivers and enablers for the "nervous system" of the militaryâ€"its command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systemsâ€"to more effectively use the "muscle" side of the military. Authored by a committee of experts drawn equally from the military and commercial sectors, Realizing the Potential of C4I identifies three major areas as fundamental challenges to the full Department of Defense (DOD) exploitation of C4I technologyâ€"information systems security, interoperability, and various aspects of DOD process and culture. The book details principles by which to assess DOD efforts in these areas over the long term and provides specific, more immediately actionable recommendations. Although DOD is the focus of this book, the principles and issues presented are also relevant to interoperability, architecture, and security challenges faced by government as a whole and by large, complex public and private enterprises across the economy.
Download or read book Communications Acquisition written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Managing the Flow of Information in an Automated Battlefield Command and Control System written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communications Acquisition Army Still Needs to Determine Battlefield Communications Capability written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army believes that battlefield commanders in the future will increasingly base critical decisions on information they receive from automated command and control system. To facilitate the gathering, processing, and dissemination of timely battlefield information, the Army is integrating five command and control systems and three communications systems into a system of systems, the Army Tactical Command and Control System (ATCCS). As you requested, we reviewed the Army's efforts to ensure that the three communication systems will provide the appropriate communications capability for ATCCS. The five command and control systems (component systems) that are to be integrated under ATCCS are expected to provide information to control artillery; monitor troop movements and general battlefield conditions; control short-range air defense weapons; manage combat service support, such as supply, maintenance, transportation, medical, and personnel activities; and distribute intelligence information. The three communications systems are to provide voice and data communications capabilities linking the component systems and battlefield areas.
Download or read book Battlefield Command Systems written by M. J. Ryan and published by Brasseys Uk Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primer for readers wishing to expand their knowledge of this area. Command and control terminology is discussed, as are the communications, information systems and networking technologies with which command systems are built. The final chapters provide frameworks for tactical communications, electronic warfare and battlefield information systems.
Download or read book Tactical Communications for the Digitized Battlefield written by Michael J. Ryan and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional tactical communications systems consist of a number of separate subsystems with little interworking between them and with external sensors and weapons systems. Combat net radio (CNR) has provided the high-mobility communications required by combat troops, while trunk communications systems have provided high-capacity communications between headquarters at the expense of mobility. The focus of this book is on new, information-age technologies that promise to offer seamless integration of real-time data sharing, creating a single logical network architecture to facilitate the movement of data throughout the battlespace. Because the structure of this network is constrained by the fundamental trade-off between range, mobility and capacity that applies to all communications systems, this network is unlikely to be based on a single network technology. This book presents an architecture for this network, and shows how its subsystems can be integrated to form a single logical network.
Download or read book Planning and Architectural Design of Modern Command Control Communications and Information Systems written by A. Nejat Ince and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is Command Control Communication and Information 3 (C I) which is the management infrastructure for any large or complex dynamic resource systems. Here command means the determination of what to do, and control means the ongoing managementofthe execution ofa command. 3 Decision making is the essence of C I which is accomplished through a phased implementation of a set of facilities, communications, personnel, equipment and procedures for monitoring, forecasting, planning, directing, allocating resources, and generating options to achieve specific and general objectives. 3 The C I system that is in question here is for a strategic military command including its subordinate commands. Although the design methodology that will be expounded in the book is for a military system, it can, to a large extent, apply also to tactical military as well as to civilian management information systems (MIS). 3 A C I system is a decision making network that reflects a hierarchical organization 3 of C I nodes. Each node is responsible for the management of some portion ofthe available resources, where the higher level nodes are responsible for a 3 correspondingly greater portion of the resources. Within a C I system both command and control decision making occur at every level of the hierarchy. Command decisions at one level determine how to satisfy the management decisions at a higher level.
Download or read book The World Wide Military Command and Control System evolution and effectiveness written by David Eric Pearson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the best single way to summarize it is to view the book as a bureaucratic or organizational history. What the author does is to take three distinct historical themes-organization, technology, and ideology and examine how each contributed to the development of WWMCCS and its ability (and frequent inability) to satisfy the demands of national leadership. Whereas earlier works were primarily descriptive, cataloguing the command and control assets then in place or under development, The book offers more analysis by focusing on the issue of how and why WWMCCS developed the way it did. While at first glance less provocative, this approach is potentially more useful for defense decision makers dealing with complex human and technological systems in the post-cold-war era. It also makes for a better story and, I trust, a more interesting read. By necessity, this work is selective. The elements of WWMCCS are so numerous, and the parameters of the system potentially so expansive, that a full treatment is impossible within the compass of a single volume. Indeed, a full treatment of even a single WWMCCS asset or subsystem-the Defense Satellite Communications System, Extremely Low Frequency Communications, the National Military Command System, to name but a few-could itself constitute a substantial work. In its broadest conceptualization, WWMCCS is the world, and my approach has been to deal with the head of the octopus rather than its myriad tentacles.
Download or read book Military Communications written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Military Communications The term "military communications" or "military signals" refers to all aspects of various forms of communication or information transmission carried out by armed forces. Text, audio, facsimile, tactical ground-based communications, naval signaling, terrestrial microwave, tropospheric scatter, satellite communications systems and equipment, surveillance and signal analysis, security, direction finding, and jamming are some examples of the types of communications that are covered in Jane's Military Communications. The communication of information to commanders and the implementation of commands from them are the most pressing purposes. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Military communications Chapter 2: Signals intelligence Chapter 3: Tactical communications Chapter 4: Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets Chapter 5: Traffic analysis Chapter 6: Diver communications Chapter 7: Two-way radio Chapter 8: NSA encryption systems Chapter 9: Flag signals Chapter 10: Secret broadcast (II) Answering the public top questions about military communications. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Military Communications.
Download or read book Battlefield Automation written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Army Command and Control System's (ACCS) costs, schedule, and status, focusing on its communications architecture and acquisition programs. GAO found that: (1) four of the major ACCS programs will use the Department of Defense standard programming language, Ada, and ACCS common hardware and software (ACCS CHS); and (2) the three communication systems that will link the command and control systems are a telephone-like communications net, a voice radio combat net, and a data distribution radio system. GAO also found that: (1) current estimated costs of $7.4 billion for the command and control systems and $13.9 billion for the communications systems represent an increase of about $2 billion between August 1986 and August 1987; (2) additional program items could increase total ACCS costs to $24.6 billion; and (3) cost increases were mainly due to quantity increases, schedule delays, software development, and production problems. In addition, GAO found that: (1) most ACCS program schedules slipped because of software development and production model reliability problems; and (2) the Army's new Program Executive Officer Concept, effective in May 1987, should streamline and improve the ACCS acquisition process through oversight of the five individual control systems, as well as the ACCS CHS program.
Download or read book Military Communications written by John D. Bergen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Military Communications: A Test for Technology, John D. Bergen develops the thesis that burgeoning technology in communications faced a severe test in Vietnam. He analyzes the advantages and drawbacks of new communications systems and the effects these systems had on decision making and on command. In doing so, he describes the difficulties that communications systems had in keeping pace with the information explosion and shows that command and control do not necessarily improve with enhanced communications. The book illustrates that the communicator's missions of "getting the message through" was not only critical to the success of combat operations, but also as challenging as combat itself. Bergen's clear understanding and description of these issues make this a valuable work for those responsible for the future success of command, control, communications, and intelligence.
Download or read book Military Communications written by John D. Bergen and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Military Communications: A Test for Technology, John D. Bergen develops the thesis that burgeoning technology in communications faced a severe test in Vietnam. He analyzes the advantages and drawbacks of new communications systems and the effects these systems had on decision making and on command. In doing so, he describes the difficulties that communications systems had in keeping pace with the information explosion and shows that command and control do not necessarily improve with enhanced communications. The book illustrates that the communications missions of getting the message through was not only critical to the success of combat operations, but also as challenging as combat itself. Bergens clear understanding and description of these issues make this a valuable work for those responsible for the future success of command, control, communications, and intelligence.
Download or read book Network Centric Naval Forces written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-07-21 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities is a study to advise the Department of the Navy regarding its transition strategy to achieve a network-centric naval force through technology application. This report discusses the technical underpinnings needed for a transition to networkcentric forces and capabilities.
Download or read book The Army Communicator written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Will Technology and Tactical Command and Control written by Leon H. Rios and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army is becoming increasingly dependent on technical communications systems for command and control although the systems are vulnerable to failure, interception, or interference. The technical complexity of communications systems present new sets of problems rather than facilitating and sustaining command and control. This study examines the capability of U.S. Army tactical units to execute the commander's intent (will) using available communications systems in the context of current U.S. Army AirLand Battle doctrine. The study examines the functions of command and control relative to the tenets of AirLand Battle; historical precedents of battle losses because of technical difficulties in executing the commander's intent; limitations of current and future communications systems; and finally, implications of a dependence on technical communications systems for the execution of AirLand Battle doctrine at the tactical level. The study concludes that the Army can not subordinate command and control requirements to technology alone. Only through realistic training can a division's chain of command improve its capability to command and control an AirLand Battle force and execute the intent of the commander. Keywords: Communications technology; Will; Army training.
