Effectiveness Analysis of C3 Systems

Abstract

A methodology for analyzing and assessing the effectiveness of command, control and communications (C3) systems is developed. The analysis is carried out by characterizing separately both the system and the mission in terms of attributes. These attributes are determined as functions of primitives that describe the system, the mission, and the context within which both operate. Then the system capabilities and the mission requirements are compared in a common attribute space. This comparison leads to the evaluation of partial measures of effectiveness which are then combined to yield a global measure. The methodology is illustrated through the assessment of the effectiveness of a communications network operating in a hostile environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA458720

Entities

People

  • Alexander H. Levis
  • Vincent Bouthonnier

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Attrition
  • Availability
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Simulations
  • Contracts
  • Differential Equations
  • Environment
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Networks
  • Reliability
  • Survivability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

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