Changes to Marine Aviation Command and Control: Fighting Contested Communications within an Adversary's Weapons Engagement Zone

Abstract

The Marine Corps must shift its conceptualization and understanding of communications to facilitate command and control in a contested communications environment. Fighting for communication pathways inside and outside of the electromagnetic spectrum will require predicting the information needed to make operation decisions during intermittent communications. The Tactical Air Command Center(TACC) should become a low-observable, small and mobile, networked with joint interoperability, C3 node that operates within the adversary's weapon engagement zone. By making these changes, the TACC will become a resilient, conditional forward Naval Air Operations Center (AOC) in line with the Marine Corps' EABO concept and will provide significant C3 capabilities for the Navy-Marine Corps team and the joint force.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Apr 22, 2020
• Accession Number: AD1177780

Entities

People

• Stephanie A Mafrici

Organizations

• Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Air Power
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Command Centers
• Command Control Communications
• Control Systems
• Counterair Operations
• Department Of Defense
• Electromagnetic Spectra
• Handbooks
• Information Operations
• Marine Corps
• Military Communications
• Military Organizations
• Mobile Phones
• National Security
• Naval Warfare
• Rules Of Engagement
• Second World War
• Situational Awareness
• Spectra
• Standards
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• War Colleges
• Warfare

Readers

• Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

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