COMBAT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS. Strengthened Management Efforts Needed to Ensure Required Capabilities

Abstract

Friendly fire, or fratricide, incidents accounted for about 24 percent of U.S. fatalities during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Following that operation, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the military services have been working to find new ways to avoid friendly fire in joint and coalition operations. Their efforts have focused on developing new equipment and technologies as well as new tactics, training, techniques, and other solutions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA391849

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command Control Communications And Computer Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Friendly Fire
  • Governments
  • Identification
  • Identification Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Nato
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Standards
  • Technical Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine