Command, Control, Communications Technology

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) researches and investigates communications, mission command (MC), and electronics components, sub-components, software and protocols that provide the Army with enhanced capabilities for secure, mobile, networked communications, assured information delivery, and presentation of information that enables decision-making. Commercial technologies are continuously investigated and leveraged where possible. Project 779 researches and develops MC software, algorithms, protocols, architectures, and devices that enable management of information across the tactical and strategic battle space; provides automated cognitive reasoning and decision making aids; allows timely distribution, presentation/display and use of MC data on Army platforms; and researches alternatives to Global Positioning System (GPS) for positioning, navigation and timing. Project CY2 investigates cyber electromagnetic activities (CEMA), cyber security devices, software and techniques to harden wireless communications networks against cyber-attacks and new mobile networking protocols that afford resilience within our networks to autonomically 'fight through' and/or evade hostile cyber effects. Project H92 supports research in communications components, software, algorithms and protocols, which allow field commanders to communicate on-the-move to/from virtually any location, through a seamless, secure, self-organizing, self-healing network. Work in this PE complements PE 0601104A (University and Industry Research Centers), PE 0602270A (Electronic Warfare Technology) , PE 0602705A (Electronics and Electronic Devices), PE 0603270A (Electronic Warfare Technology), PE 0603772A (Advanced Tactical Computer Science and Sensor Technology), and PE 0603794A (Command, Control and Communications Advanced Technology), and is coordinated with PE 0601104A (University and Industry Research Centers), PE 0602120A, (Sensors and Electronic Survivability), PE 0602783A (Computer and Software Technology), and PE 0602874A (Advanced Concepts and Simulation). The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Science and Technology priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. Work in this PE is performed by the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 0602782A_2_2040_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: Increases in this Program Element support the Army's Modernization priority for Network/ Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I).
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Networks
• Cyberattacks
• Cybersecurity
• Cyberspace
• Cyberspace Operations
• Data Links
• Global Positioning Systems
• Machine Learning
• Military Applications
• Navigation
• Network Architecture
• Network Science
• Network Topology
• Radio Frequency
• Warfare
• Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Computer Networking
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics
• Space