Using assessment Methods and Tools to Understand Joint Battlespace Digitization (JBD)

Abstract

This paper reports the author's current research into an integrated approach to Joint Battlespace Digitization (JBD) analysis. The work describes an approach to establishing a toolset that is useful to understand the JBD, existing policies on JBD lack clear directives in certain areas, which may inhibit its benefits and timely exploitation of military situations. There are several methods being developed that are potentially useful for analyzing JBD but several question arise: 1) How do they relate to the overall needs of the JBD analyst? 2) How do they integrate within an overall analytical approach? 3) What methods can we employ for assessing the completeness of our analysis? A new assessment is used to interact and share information between the various aspects of JBD analysis. This toolset is built around Strategy To Task (STT), which enables identification of requirements for JBD and to assess potential options, and System Dynamics (SD) to enable analysis of factors which contribute to mission effectiveness of JBD and to investigate the importance of these factors and also to enable the analysis of specific technical parameters leading to validation of STT assessment. Using different analysis elements is, illustrating the use of these methods tools in the study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA463888

Entities

People

  • Naif M. Al-duwaish
  • Phil John

Organizations

  • Cranfield University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Battlespace
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design