Computing and Communications Infrastructure for Network-Centric Warfare: Exploiting COTS, Assuring Performance

Abstract

In network centric warfare (NCW), the effectiveness of warfighters and their platforms is enhanced by rapid and effective information flow. This requires a robust and flexible computing and communications software infrastructure, and a degree of system integration beyond what has ever been achieved. The design of this infrastructure is a tremendous challenge for a number of reasons. We argue that an appropriately architected software infrastructure can employ COTS software to realize much of the required functionality, while having the necessary degree of performance assurance required for military missions. Perhaps the biggest challenge is system resource management allocation of computing and communications resources to COTS and custom software alike so that performance requirements can be met. We describe an approach to system resource management appropriate to the NCW environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA465984

Entities

People

  • James P. Richardson
  • Lee Graba
  • Mukul Agrawal

Organizations

  • Honeywell International, Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Application Software
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Resource Management
  • Warfare
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Software Engineering.