C2 Product-Centric Approach to Transforming Current C4ISR Information Architectures
Abstract
The Army Future Force (FF), including Units of Employment (UE) and subordinate Units of Action (UA) equipped with Future Combat Systems (FCS) and manned by Future Force Warriors (FFW), is distinguished from legacy and interim force units and systems by its exceptional responsiveness, deployability, agility, versatility, lethality, survivability and sustainability. These characteristics are meaningful individually but are not completely independent of each other. To support such characteristics, the Future Force is expected to be an order of magnitude more complex in its force structure, doctrinal requirements and technology than the current legacy force. A coherent, comprehensive and manageable set of complementary reference concepts are needed to facilitate the formulation of an overarching information model, reinforced by the rigor of UML, XML and metadata registries, to support system engineering and integration and to assess interdependencies and tradeoffs among the above characteristics based upon more detailed capabilities and their measures-of-performance (MoPs). In this paper we discuss and motivate the use of such an information model derived from the C2RM that is well suited to flesh out C2 UML architectures and C2 XML schemata. The C2RM defines common layers for C2 entities where each layer defines and requests Information Exchange Requirements (IERs) from peer entities using the layer below as well as provide an Information Exchange Products (IEPs) to peer entities which encapsulate the results of its services as requested by the next higher layer. The IERs/IEPs are organized into a common schema following the outline of an operations order (OPORD).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA466150
Entities
People
- Bernard Goren
- Israel Mayk