Fuselet Authoring, Execution, and Management in Support of Global Strike Operations

Abstract

Fuselets are the result of AFRL/IF Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) research based on the 1998 Air Force Science Advisory Board (SAB) report, "Information Management to Support the Warrior." A fuselet is a configurable, reusable transformation component, designed to enable shared business processes across organizational and community of interest boundaries. Fuselets enable innovative workflows to meet the information transformation needs that aren't addressed by individual C2 applications. The fuselet concept thrives in environments where information objects with formatted metadata are published and can be subscribed to. Examples of such environments include the JBI, RSS feeds on the World Wide Web, and web services in a Service Oriented Architecture. In this effort we achieved our goal of developing an application demonstration of fuselet technology as applied to Global Strike operations. Following several knowledge acquisition sessions with personnel affiliated with USSTRATCOM and the USAF Air Combat Command, we developed a number of operationally relevant fuselet workflows. These SMEs provided useful feedback and assessment of the applicability of the fuselet concept. Many of the SMEs agreed that the fuselet concept has the potential to improve command and control processes in the Global Strike or Air Operations Center domains.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA484510

Entities

People

  • Peter Haglich

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Databases
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Personnel Management
  • Populated Places
  • United States Pacific Command
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Warfare
  • Web Browsers
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

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