Focused Knowledge for the Battlefield
Abstract
The United States Army is in the midst of a major transformation. The Future Force must be highly mobile, agile, and lethal to ensure its dominance in the future battlefield. This dominance is reliant on the ability to see and understand first (situational awareness). Persistent and pervasive sensing and processing, coupled with greatly increased speed of information flow, information assimilation, and decisive action, at and between all levels of our force, are necessary to fulfill this requirement. The United States Army is most vulnerable in urban terrain. This highly constrained, complex environment presents a significant challenge to US forces, particularly dismounted infantry and military intelligence because opposing force activity is readily masked or obscured by background noise (commerce, schools, religious activity etc.). This paper proposes an intelligent interaction between the digitized dismounted units and military intelligence, for the significant benefit to both.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA432635
Entities
People
- Philip J. Emmerman
- Swati D. Allen