Advanced Visualization for Operational Assessment

Abstract

The Air Force is in the midst of a technology transition that will enable and support operators in their decision making strategies by enabling them to have access to - the information needed, in a timely manner, to maintain situation awareness over the battlespace, and to work jointly with other commands. The overarching goal of this transition is to provide a network-centric warfare (NCW) capability that in military operations theory holds that the seamless networking of friendly force elements will bring about an increase in combat power (Alberts, Oartstka, & Stein, 1999). The basic idea is that related mission applications should be integrated into a single managed "C2 Node". Included in this technology transition is the advancement and implementation of an Effects Based Operation (EBO) methodology. The goal for the Air Force is to enforce a standardization of this methodology both in practice and in system development. This enforcement is occurring because operations have become complex and more difficult to keep track of, especially when joint forces are employed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA444177

Entities

People

  • Christopher R. Hale
  • Donald Monk
  • Richard H. Loreaux
  • Sonia Alvidrez

Organizations

  • Leidos

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Attrition
  • Battle Damage Assessment
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Damage Assessment
  • Engineering
  • Functional Analysis
  • Military Operations
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Situational Awareness
  • Space Operations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Visualizations
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.