Horizontal Integration based upon Decentralized Data Fusion (DDF), NetCentric Architecture (NCA) , and Analysis Collaboration Tools (ACT)

Abstract

The major focus in the joint-services area today is on Horizontal Integration (HI) rapidly fusing and exploiting the data from different collection systems to speed the flow of correlated intelligence to war fighters, both for situational awareness and targeting. In this paper we discuss several technologies potentially useful in HI. They are Decentralized Data Fusion (DDF), NetCentric Architecture (NCA), and Analysis Collaboration Tools (ACT). DDF, NCA, and ACT could provide pathfinders and enablers for future implementation of HI across current 'stovepipe' collection and analysis systems. HI will ultimately require effective command and control of air, ground, naval, and space-based intelligence collection and dissemination systems. This control will be achieved through net-centric information management that includes dynamic links between a 'global' database and multiple locally maintained databases that contain data obtained from component stovepipe systems. The links between communication nodes will allow global information to be updated automatically with information from distributed assets. The motivation for providing connectivity and automated information sharing among distributed platforms/nodes is to increase the amount of information available at each node. The technology enablers for HI include, but are not limited to, the following: " Net-Centric Architecture (NCA)- A network architecture that gives component platforms access to multi-level security information and communications over a two-way encrypted TCP/IP connection allowing net-centric control and utilization " Decentralized Data Fusion (DDF)-The DDF framework includes a proposed solution to the data fusion problem called Covariance Intersection (CI), as well as a solution to the information corruption problem called Covariance Union (CU). " Analysis Collaboration Tool (ACT)-NRL has developed an analysis collaboration tool (ACT) to be used for virtual collaboration in intelligence support.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA464026

Entities

People

  • Sheldon B. Gardner

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programs
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Configuration Management
  • Covariance
  • Data Fusion
  • Databases
  • Information Exchange
  • Intelligence Products
  • Kalman Filters
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Network Architecture
  • Reliability
  • Teamwork
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

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