Composable Operations Center

Abstract

Composable Operations Center (COC) is a MITRE-wide initiative that brings together the MITRE Innovation Program (MIP) and MITRE work programs to develop and demonstrate a common approach for hosting and rapidly composing operations center capabilities within a secure virtual computing environment. The initiative began in January 2010 and is expected to continue through September 2012. This document provides an overview of the MITRE Naval Division's engagement through November 2010. The COC concept is developed to afford the capability to rapidly consume and produce essential information while operating in rapidly changing environments. As a generalized information-centric approach defined by unanticipated partners and events, the desired outcome for our sponsors is to be able to compose a scalable, tailored operations center within minutes vice days weeks, or months that meets the current mission's objectives. The overall technical objectives are to develop and demonstrate to key MITRE customers and stakeholders a common approach for hosting and rapidly composing operations center capabilities within a secure virtual computing environment. The environment will: be based on a defined framework so that components can be defined, built, managed, and shared separately from the core technologies; leverage Web 2.0 and virtualization technologies to rapidly compose critical Command and Control (C2) capabilities on demand; maximize the use of shared content from authoritative and trusted sources in common formats; reduce the physical footprint of conventional operations centers (air, ground and maritime); and allow C2/battle management capabilities (plan, organize, direct and monitor execution) to be decentralized and distributed across the battlespace.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA557347

Entities

People

  • Aaron Griggs
  • Dan Ostermiller
  • Jeff Barron
  • Josh O'sullivan
  • Kem Kaiyarath
  • Steve Jones
  • Weber Lin

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central Processing Units
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Fusion
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Systems
  • Local Area Networks
  • Markup Languages
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Reconnaissance
  • Standards
  • Virtualization
  • Warfare
  • Xml

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

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