The Network Centric Warfare Sensor Grid: A Short-Term Requirement

Abstract

Network centric warfare (NCW) is a concept about which more and more is being written. One point regarding NCW that concept advocates stress is the value of a shift in importance away from platforms to networks. Despite this naval forces by the year 2010, whether seen through the eyes of a cynic, skeptic, or true believer in NCW, will appear decidedly platform oriented. This poses a problem. As the Navy continues to evolve in its ability to operate in the littoral, the potential exists for the level of threat to increase at a far greater rate. Paradoxically, it will be precisely because of the Navy's continued reliance upon large, vulnerable platforms that an important element of NCW needs to be brought to bear. Only by divorcing sensors from large platforms and developing an NCW-like sensor grid can the Navy offset the risk associated with littoral operations in 2010.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 08, 2000
Accession Number
ADA378746

Entities

People

  • John Munn

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detection
  • Active Sonar
  • Aircrafts
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Human Intelligence
  • Military Operations
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Second World War
  • Submarines
  • Surveillance
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Economics
  • Educational Psychology
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.