Horizontal System-of-Systems Integration Via Commonality

Abstract

A requirement for the Army's Future Force Unit of Action is equivalent (or identical) functionally across operational systems, remote operations, modeling, simulation, training, rehearsal, etc. This requirement necessitates tightly-coupled systems integration via commonality of the low-level functions across these modes of use. This pathfinder project identifies such commonality via a typical functional decomposition for a representative integrated process, which also has commonality with existing Army simulation models. An understanding and use of such commonality will facilitate the system-of-systems integration. The resultant enhancements will assure joint inter-operability; will enable networked battle command, lethality, and training; will improve reliability, survivability, and efficiency; will ease the effort for maintenance and improvements; and will reduce the life-cycle cost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA432202

Entities

People

  • A. S. Loebl
  • L. M. Hively

Organizations

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Commonality
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Decomposition
  • Efficiency
  • Information Systems
  • Integrators
  • Lethality
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Maintenance
  • Simulations
  • System Of Systems
  • Training
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design