Network Command
Abstract
(U) The Network Command program leverages recent advances in network computing, simulation, and visualization to dramatically improve collaboration among physically separate command posts and lower echelons. Network Command enables warfighters to share situation information and exploited data from the area of responsibility, develop coordinated battle plans, generate and compare alternate courses of action, and assess likely outcomes, without conventional group briefings. Network Command also enables warfighters to prepare for joint missions using high-fidelity, mixed-reality combat simulation and visualization technologies. • The Network-Centric Situation Assessment program develops and deploys technologies to assess military situations at levels of interest above individual targets. The program uses all-source data to reconstruct unit organizations, mission relationships, logistics connections, and communications connectivity and analyzes data over time to infer movement, communication, and supply patterns. Within this context, capability analyses are provided and future courses of action are hypothesized. The objective is to understand potential capabilities and intentions of opposing forces. This effort provides greater understanding of opponents’ force structures, capabilities, and operational practices, and then enables commanders to sustain effects-based targeting rather than simple attrition strategies. The program provides a context for discovering vulnerabilities in opposing forces and provides cues for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance planning, as it suggests areas of future enemy activity that merit intense scrutiny. Technologies are planned to transition to the U.S. Army. • The Joint Mission Rehearsal program integrates high-fidelity, mixed-reality combat simulations with situation assessment and planning tools. The objective is to allow rehearsal of joint missions, prior to actual engagements. The visualization permits the warfighter to interact with both reality and the simulation simultaneously in a manner consistent with their anticipated role in the mission. The program delivers the capability to practice and fine-tune mission plans for joint military operations and enables commanders and staff to participate from their current location instead of a training facility, thereby reducing deployment needs while improving mission planning and effectiveness. Technologies are planned to transition to the U.S. Army Simulation, Training & Instrumentation Command, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and the Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- f6007b0201ef555e3093e3e39eb37fed