Distributed, Survivable Direction and Control Systems for Civil Preparedness -- Concepts and Initial Designs.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop concepts and initial designs for distributed, survivable direction and control systems for civil preparedness in the mid-1980 time period. The study was organized into the following tasks: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of existing operational concepts of direction and control, and develop revised concepts, (2) review the state-of-the-art of command, control, and communications in the U.S. Department of Defense, and evaluate its applicability to direction and control, (3) develop alternative configurations for survivable direction and control, and (4) evaluate the cost-effectiveness of these alternatives. In this study, direction and control is defined to consist of the following functions: (1) decision making, coordination, and resource allocation, (2) emergency operations reporting, (3) warning, (4) emergency public information, (5) damage assessment and radiological defense, and (6) communications. The project concluded that existing operational concepts, procedures, and equipment components, especially long-range communications, were unlikely to result in survivable direction and control in the 1980s threat environment. Revised concepts of operation are suggested, and new, more survivable communications techniques are described including: packet radio communications, and meteor burst communications. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 19, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA072388
Entities
People
- Leonard Farr
- Murray Rosenthal