Distributed Decision and Communication Problems in Tactical USAF Command and Control

Abstract

During the third year of this project, the technical effort continued to be directed toward generic, long range, basic, unclassified research. The emphasis was on general methodological and technical issues, but from the perspective of the unique needs and requirements of the Air Force. The four research areas specified in the statement of work were: (a) C3 System Structure and Organizational Forms (b) Decentralized Estimation (c) Information Storage and Flow in C3 Systems (d) Distributed Decision Problems in Dynamic Missile Reassignment Strategies. Progress was achieved in each of these areas, as summarized in the next section. The last three were brought to conclusion during this past year; while the first one is continuing along several new directions. The list of documents resulting from research carried under this project is included in Section 3. Section 4 contains a list of professional personnel that were supported by this contract.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 30, 1983
Accession Number
ADA459569

Entities

People

  • Alexander H. Levis
  • Michael Athans

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Algorithms
  • Buffer Storage
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Information Processing
  • Information Theory
  • Massachusetts
  • Organizational Structure

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

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