Development of a Naval C2 Capability Evaluation Facility

Abstract

At the tactical level, Command and Control (C2) Agility implies that command staff has a range of well-developed, and understood, concepts of operation that they can choose from for their organizations. The development of alternative operational concepts, even to adjust an operations centre to the inclusion of new or changed capabilities can be problematic at the unit level. For a naval platform, changes to the physical environment are generally both difficult and expensive. In order to support naval concept development and experimentation, Defence R&D Canada has developed the concept of a Maritime Capability Evaluation Facility. This concept would provide the reconfigurable physical infrastructure to conduct operator in the loop experimentation on C2 concepts, thus enabling the investigation of concepts of operation early in the naval capability development cycle. A prototype facility to support submarine C2 research has been developed and used to investigate a wide range of technologies that could be used in the development of a full Navy capability. This paper describes the prototype and a number of the technologies investigated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA607008

Entities

People

  • Allan Gillis
  • Bradford Dillman
  • Donald Coady
  • Glenn Franck
  • Mark G. Hazen

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Complex Systems
  • Computers
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Environment
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Navy
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Prototypes
  • Ships
  • Software Design
  • Submarines
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • User Interface

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

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