Reliability and Uncertainty in Situational Awareness

Abstract

The motivation behind our discussion and analysis focused on understanding the realities of current political, strategic, operational and tactical environments. Current operations involve an increasingly rapid tempo, involving short decision cycles and high stress. There is an increased link between the units in which political considerations affect strategy, operations and tactics on a short term basis. While there are fewer tactical units, these units have increased fire power. Hence the activities of an individual tactical unit can have a greater impact at tactical, strategic and political arenas (in a negative and positive way). This is made possible due to increased communications capacity (both bandwidth and connectivity). Thus, network centricity is a double-edged sword.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA477131

Entities

People

  • D. M. Akbar Hussain
  • David L. Hall
  • T. Kesavadas
  • Tom Johansen
  • Vera Kamp

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Defense
  • Data Displays
  • Data Fusion
  • High Resolution
  • Information Operations
  • Information Overload
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Reliability
  • Situational Awareness
  • Technology Assessment
  • Threat Evaluation
  • Threats
  • Three Dimensional
  • Uncertainty
  • Visualizations

Readers

  • Economics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies