Performance Assessment of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Enterprise Workflows
Abstract
This report presents an end-to-end assessment framework for C4ISR enterprises that identifies potential FOMs and thereby eliminates a significant fraction of the uncertainty the currently exists on how to assess the performance of these systems. The framework delineates how measurements from laboratory tests, operational experiments, and field deployments can be analyzed to produce accurate, quantitative descriptions of system performance. These FOMs not only inform the development and acquisition processes but also allow military users to ensure that they are optimizing the information enterprise to achieve improved operational capability. In fact, active participation by the military user community in defining appropriate FOMs is essential to providing users with systems that meet their operational needs. An analysis of a simple ISR enterprise through simulation is conducted to show how FOMs might be calculated and used to assess the relative merit of different communications architectures for the construction of a common operational picture (COP) among a collection of distributed sensors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 31, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA462746
Entities
People
- M. B. Hurley
- P. B. Jones
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology