Global Battlespace Awareness
Abstract
In order to achieve information dominance, the Air Force must be able to monitor, assess, plan, and execute (MAPE) missions rapidly across the full spectrum of operations (air, space, and cyberspace) at all levels of war (strategic, operational, and tactical) and during all phases of conflict (pre-conflict, conflict through stability operations). This project develops, integrates, and demonstrates advanced technologies to achieve comprehensive net-centric operations and Predictive Battlespace Awareness using information from all sources. Technology development includes: tasking information collectors (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms, national intelligence sources, etc.); correlating and geo-registering the collected data; exploiting the data to extract information of military significance; fusing information from multiple sources to create a digital n-dimensional representation of the battlespace; assessing the situation; predicting adversary courses of action (COA); and archiving the results for ready use by decision makers. This is a dynamic, complex process that involves technologies for information exploitation, fusion, processing, storage, and retrieval, as well as technologies for machine reasoning, pattern recognition, and timeline analysis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 635321_0603788F_3_3600_PB_2011
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