Toward the Support of Command and Control (C2) Interoperability and Sensor Fusion: Global Information Network Architecture
Abstract
Modern military operations increasingly rely on the use of sensors to detect, identify, track, and target, making Internet of Things technology a potentially valuable aid in achieving mission goals. Further, the Internet of Battlefield Things represents an emerging paradigm for command and control (C2) support, requiring integration of assets featuring both diverse ownership and capabilities. Historically, such systems integration has posed technological challenges due to variations in hardware platforms, as well as incompatibilities in software and data formats. Global Information Network Architecture (GINA) is a semantic modeling framework designed to facilitate integration of ad-hoc sensor assets and C2 systems as they become available to the operators in the battlespace using the implementation known as Vector Relational Data Modeling. A proof-of-concept assessment was developed to evaluate the interoperability and inference capabilities of GINA and tested on real-world sensor data. An initial demonstration has yielded an inference and executable fusion model using combinations of heterogeneous sensors. This report provides the results from the evaluations from the field exercise and the lab simulations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1113151
Entities
People
- Jade Freeman
- James Michaelis
- Michael D Lee
- Timothy Gregory
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory