C4 Concerns for the Operational Commander

Abstract

The explosion of technology in the past four decades has produced advances in the communications and computer industry that few ever envisioned. As a military community, we look toward many of these new capabilities as effective force multipliers in providing better command and control for our operational commanders. In evaluating any of the new systems, we must consider five fundamental criteria: Interoperability, survivability, security, user friendliness, and operational utility. C4I for the Warrior, a concept introduced by JCS/J-6 in June 1993, goes a long way in establishing a goal and a general roadmap of how to get there. However, we must expand our thinking well past the technical problems we usually concentrate on and also evaluate how new C4 systems and concepts may impact our warfighting doctrine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 08, 1994
Accession Number
ADA279714

Entities

People

  • David C. Schreck

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Command Control Communications And Computer Systems
  • Communities
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Security
  • Survivability
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

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