A First-Principles Approach to Measuring Robustness in Command and Control Systems

Abstract

There is growing evidence that organizational architectures of military Command and Control (C2) systems are evolving from multiple layered, hierarchical (top-down) commands to more adaptable commands of networked teams. This research presents a first principles approach to developing a computational framework to measure and compare the organizational architecture of any military unit or commercial business. The developed construct takes the form of a game that imitates processes an organization must accomplish to reach an objective. Supported by mathematical analysis, we implement the framework as a simulation to measure the effectiveness of various organizational architectures. We explore performance advantages of different architectures when an organizations objective and/or operating environment change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1052535

Entities

People

  • David S. Cohick

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Commerce
  • Control Systems
  • Information Exchange
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Mechanics
  • Military Organizations
  • Network Science
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Python Programming Language
  • Simulations
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control