Collaborative Teammates or Autonomous Peers? Command and Control in Human-Machine Teams

Abstract

The forecasted future operating environment is a complex, adaptive system, significantly interconnected and interdependent, and population-centric; one where U.S. military advantages are challenged by myriad state and nonstate actors. It will be an operating environment in which unmanned systems use and their growing autonomy is not only planned but mandated and funded in U.S. law. Together, these trends challenge our current theory of command and control and ultimately our concept of warfare. We are faced with a dilemma: how do Marines lead machines teamed with humans to achieve mission success in the future operating environment? The approach explored in this paper-the collaborative team-posits the integration of humans and machines in a way compatible with Marine Corps mission command and control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 17, 2016
Accession Number
AD1178765

Entities

People

  • Bryan A. Eovito

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Autonomy
  • Big Data
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Doctrine
  • Environment
  • Human Rights
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Law
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Operations
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control