Battle Command Software: Meeting the Commander's Needs

Abstract

Over the past twenty-plus years the Army has invested heavily in automating its command and control information systems. The automation of this information known as digitizing the battlefield is currently deployed woddwide supporting commanders and staff at the tactical operational strategic level. Battle command systems are also unable to provide situational understanding to the fidelity required for a hostile and adaptive enemy the United States faces today. A different capability set is needed to support the commander's ability to balance the art and science of battle command to achieve situational understanding. These deployed information systems have significant interoperability flaws that inhibit effective command and control. The intent of this paper is to analyze Army Battle Command Systems capability and prominent parallel battle command software developments utilizing Department of Defense Net-Centric enablers as well as Joint and Army Battle Command doctrine and present suggestions for future development effort.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 04, 2006
Accession Number
ADA449171

Entities

People

  • David M. Moore

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Community Of Practice
  • Computers
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lessons Learned
  • Management Personnel
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control