Download or read book Communications Networks to Support Integrated Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance and Strike Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. military operations in the 21st century rely heavily on receiving and distributing information to and from the field of operation. Immense amounts of data must be collected, processed, and fused into knowledge via high-capacity networks. The required high capacity in a hostile environment introduces significant challenges and conflicting requirements to the communications network for a variety of reasons. The research in this report focuses on combat systems operating at medium and low altitudes, which pose different challenges from the challenges of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms operating at high altitudes: (1) Medium- and low-altitude airborne platforms, such as fighters and bombers, are closer to jammers and signals intelligence (SIGINT) receivers; hence, the adversary systems may require less sensitivity to intercept those signals and less power to jam them; (2) the low observability of the platforms can potentially be compromised by transmitting large amounts of data; and (3) during transmission of large amounts of data, platforms at lower altitudes are at a higher risk of being detected. To fully understand the issues and challenges, the author considered two types of threats: mobile jammers and SIGINT receivers able to detect and locate user transmitters. Such jammers and SIGINT receivers are hard to locate and engage. He first discusses data requirements and threats and examines current communications programs and shortfalls. He then analyzes a variety of options in terms of frequencies, waveforms, and antenna types, and makes suggestions for improving the current communications program based on altitude, range, data rate, and threat. The development of new systems, together with required platform modifications and new designs, raise technology and cost issues that are not addressed here but that need to be carefully examined.
Download or read book Improving Communications Networks to Support Integrated Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance and Strike Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communications Networks to Support Integrated Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Strike Operations written by Elham Ghashghai and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of the study is on combat systems operating at medium and low altitudes, which pose challenges different from intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms operating at high altitude. Medium- and low-altitude platforms are closer to jammers and signals intelligence receivers, so an adversary might more readily intercept or jam signals. The platforms' low observability can be compromised if they transmit large amounts of data, increasing their chance of detection. After discussing data requirements and threats and examining the current communications programs and shortfalls, the analysis finds that there is no one solution for all situations and platforms. A combination of options will be needed to ensure a reliable and robust communications link. These options will vary depending on altitude, range, data rate, and threat. Although communications does not appear to be a limiting factor for future ISR forces, programmatic action will be required to develop the necessary systems and the costs could be high.
Download or read book C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of this construct is the need for flexible, adaptive command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. To assist development of this capability, the Navy asked the NRC to examine C4ISR for carrier, expeditionary, and strike and missile defense strike groups, and for expeditionary strike forces. This report provides an assessment of C4ISR capabilities for each type of strike group; recommendations for C4ISR architecture for use in major combat operations; promising technology trends; and an examination of organizational improvements that can enable the recommended architecture.
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 C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of this construct is the need for flexible, adaptive command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. To assist development of this capability, the Navy asked the NRC to examine C4ISR for carrier, expeditionary, and strike and missile defense strike groups, and for expeditionary strike forces. This report provides an assessment of C4ISR capabilities for each type of strike group; recommendations for C4ISR architecture for use in major combat operations; promising technology trends; and an examination of organizational improvements that can enable the recommended architecture.
Download or read book China s Strategic Support Force written by John Costello and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 2015, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) initiated reforms that have brought dramatic changes to its structure, model of warfighting, and organizational culture, including the creation of a Strategic Support Force (SSF) that centralizes most PLA space, cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare capabilities. The reforms come at an inflection point as the PLA seeks to pivot from land-based territorial defense to extended power projection to protect Chinese interests in the "strategic frontiers" of space, cyberspace, and the far seas. Understanding the new strategic roles of the SSF is essential to understanding how the PLA plans to fight and win informationized wars and how it will conduct information operations.
Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Measuring Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Effectiveness at the United States Central Command written by David Luckey and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors developed a repeatable process to measure the effectiveness of U.S. Central Command intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations; evaluate current performance; and plan for, influence, and resource future operations.
Download or read book Munitions of the Mind written by Philip M. Taylor and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest definition it has also been part of a process of persuasion at the heart of human communication. Stone monuments, coins, broadsheets, paintings and pamphlets, posters, radio, film, television, computers and satellite communications - throughout history, propaganda has had access to ever more complex and versatile media. This third edition has been revised and expanded to include a new preface, new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, information age conflict in the post-Cold War era, and the world after the terrorist attacks of September 11. It also offers a new epilogue and a comprehensive bibliographical essay. The extraordinary range of this book, as well as the original and cohesive analysis it offers, make it an ideal text for all international courses covering media and communications studies, cultural history, military history and politics. It will also prove fascinating and accessible to the general reader.
Download or read book A Strategies to tasks Framework for Planning and Executing Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance ISR Operations written by Carl Rhodes and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To assist in moving intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) planning and execution forward from a fixed target and deliberate planning focus to one centered on emerging targets, the authors propose enhancing the collection management process with a strategies-to-tasks and utility framework. By linking collection targets to operational tasks, objectives, and the top-level commander's guidance with relative utilities, planning for the daily intelligence collections and real-time retasking for ad hoc ISR targets could be enhanced. When current tools are modified to provide this information, planners will be able to link collection targets to top-level objectives for better decision making and optimization of low-density, high-demand collection assets. Similarly, on the Air Operations Center (AOC) floor, intelligence officers will be better able to deal with time-sensitive, emerging targets by rapidly comparing the value of collecting an ad hoc collection with the value of collecting opportunities already planned. To handle the ISR demands posed by the rapidly changing battlefield of the future, this new, more-capable framework may be needed for making the best use of intelligence capabilities against emerging collection opportunities. Future research will focus on quantifying the advantages of this approach in comparison with the current process.
Download or read book Systems Confrontation and System Destruction Warfare written by Jeffrey Engstrom and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reflects an attempt to understand current thinking in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) regarding system of systems and systems warfare, as well as current methods of warfighting. This report should be of interest to military analysts and scholars of the PLA, policymakers, and anyone else who seeks insight into how the PLA conceptualizes and seeks to wage modern warfare.
Download or read book Operations Research for Unmanned Systems written by Jeffrey R. Cares and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edited volume addressing analysis for unmanned vehicles, with focus on operations research rather than engineering The editors have a unique combination of extensive operational experience and technical expertise Chapters address a wide-ranging set of examples, domains and applications Accessible to a general readership and also informative for experts
Download or read book High Altitude Long Endurance HALE Platforms for Tactical Wireless Communications and Sensor Use in Military Operations written by Charles R. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U,S military forces are transitioning to network centric operations, as described in Joint Vision 2010 and Joint Vision 2020. Warfighting elements will function as individual nodes in a global information grid with an end-to- end infrastructure that provides information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel. This transition will place additional demands on wireless communications and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems. However, current and planned space-based communications solutions are costly and have significant shortfalls. Likewise, ISR systems will have difficulty fulfilling near real-time requirements and sensor-to-shooter roles.
Download or read book Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been used in military operations for more than 60 years, with torpedoes, cruise missiles, satellites, and target drones being early examples.1 They have also been widely used in the civilian sector-for example, in the disposal of explosives, for work and measurement in radioactive environments, by various offshore industries for both creating and maintaining undersea facilities, for atmospheric and undersea research, and by industry in automated and robotic manufacturing. Recent military experiences with AVs have consistently demonstrated their value in a wide range of missions, and anticipated developments of AVs hold promise for increasingly significant roles in future naval operations. Advances in AV capabilities are enabled (and limited) by progress in the technologies of computing and robotics, navigation, communications and networking, power sources and propulsion, and materials. Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations is a forward-looking discussion of the naval operational environment and vision for the Navy and Marine Corps and of naval mission needs and potential applications and limitations of AVs. This report considers the potential of AVs for naval operations, operational needs and technology issues, and opportunities for improved operations.
Download or read book Is Secure Commercial Wireless Technology for Tactical ISR Achievable written by Anthony L. Valdillez and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Are commercially available integrated wireless network and sensor technologies deployable to provide secured immediate/real-time service of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) communications to meet the warfighter's persistent ISR needs at the tactical level? This tactical level concept employs the idea that every sensor in the network is a node with wireless links back to a command and control (C2) entity for near real-time situational awareness. A node in the network is defined as a sensor that contains intelligence information such as, but not limited to, a motion detector, a camera that a soldier may possess, or a chemical agent sensor linked in the network via commercial wireless technology. The study will identify the types of wireless technology then evaluate the easibility of developing a totally commercial wireless network integrated with sensor technology to collect and transmit secure information to a decision maker. The research focused on whether commercial wireless and sensor technologies are adequately secure to meet the persistent ISR warfighters requirement at the C2 tactical level. The technology program evaluated demonstrated that a commercial wireless network integrated with sensor technologies was feasible to develop and adequately secure for use as a persistent ISR capability. In developing a commercial wireless network, there is an initial developmental cost incurred in designing the system, technical analysis performed in selection of devices, and performance testing of the system. The demonstration revealed equipment with Federal Information Processing Standards increase the security posture of the network. Finally, an adversary wanting to perform a denial of service attack on WLAN and WiMAX technologies would require specialize skills, experience, and training on equipment and software to achieve disruption of wireless network operations."--Abstract.
