An Interoperability Road Map for C4ISR Legacy Systems

Abstract

Modern military operations require interoperability. The Department of Defense (DoD) has made tremendous interoperability gains over the last few years. Unfortunately, without a way to assess the status of interoperability throughout the department, it is difficult to quantify this progress. Although interoperability issues are persistent and visible, the number of interoperability successes is easily overlooked. Most systems developed today meet the interoperability requirements that were specified in their operational requirements documents (ORDs). The application of a set of metrics addressing this domain would shed more light on the situation and highlight the successes of the many agencies that have labored to produce interoperable systems. Effective metrics would enable the services and agencies to make informed decisions about the allocation of scarce resources to solve interoperability in already fielded systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA487874

Entities

People

  • Jerome D. Rosen
  • John A. Hamilton Jr.
  • Paul A. Summers

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Application Software
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Interoperability
  • Military Applications
  • Military Operations
  • Software Development
  • Statistics
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Systems Analysis and Design