COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, AND COMPUTERS (C4)
Abstract
This activity supports S&T investment in Command and Control and is focused in three main areas. (1) Implementing the FORCEnet concept. FORCEnet is the operational construct and architectural framework for naval warfare in the information age that integrates warriors, networks, command and control, and weapons into a networked, distributed, combat force that is scalable across all levels of conflict from the seabed to space and sea to land. The Marine Corps instantiation of FORCEnet is Marine Air Ground Task Force Command and Control (MAGTF C2), with technologies to exchange data and information with and among distributed tactical forces. (2) Developing decision support systems that enable warfighters to take advantage of the FORCEnet and MAGTF C2 and tactically extend Net-Enabled Command and Control (NECC) for shared situational awareness. (3) Providing effective combat identification of enemy combatants, friendly forces, and non-combatants. Activities in this activity provide technologies for secure, robust, self-forming, mobile communications networks distributed computing to support information dissemination to all echelons; and sensors, software and data processing to support formation of appropriate common picture. Marine Corps specific efforts include power management, low detect ability, size and weight constraints, and interoperability within the joint environment. The FY 2009 to FY 2010 increase in funding results from the acceleration of efforts to complete and transition Adaptive Networking Technologies efforts. The FY 2010 to FY 2011 increase in funding results from accelerating and completing the transition of C4 needs in Adaptable Antennas Technologies, Field Programmable Gate Array Communications Architectures, and Information on Demand programs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 33be54fdcaf3a773dcf7f396b65eb79d