Basic Research in Information Science and Technology for Air Force Needs (2006) / Chapter Skim
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These concepts include:* · Dynamic aerospace command · Joint battlespace infosphere · Information operations · Integrated aerospace operations · The Expeditionary Aerospace Force · Effects-based operations *
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However, the Air Force, like all the services, has requirements that are not significant drivers in the commercial sector -- requirements in security (e.g., being multilevel in many cases) , in the complexity of its command and control systems, in the real-time requirements of some systems, and in the need for robustness and resilience in the face of broken network or communications links or of captured nodes.
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The Air Force roadmap for transformation is described in the Air Force Flight Plan.2 Though not intended as a primer on Air Force needs for IS&T, it describes deficiencies in current capabilities as well as desired new capabilities that require new information technologies. The three main new capabilities are information superiority, persistent precision strike, and battlespace awareness.
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. The military still cannot assess, plan, and direct air and space operations from anywhere or from multiple locations in near real-time, something the Air Force believes will be necessary in the future to give the commander the greatest flex ibility to meet national tasking.
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As part of its investigation, the committee examined a 1996 NRC review of AFOSR programs in mathematical and computer sciences and found that some of the observations still pertain and are helpful for setting the context of the current study.6 That study reviewed the size, scope, and quality of the erstwhile AFOSR mathematical and computer sciences program. (Many of the elements of that program, and some of the program managers, are now part of AFOSR's IS&T program.
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Required capabilities include rapid global reach, on demand space surge, and aerospace power network. · Effective aerospace persistence.
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This change is the process DOD calls transformation, and it relies in a central way on information superiority. The Air Force roadmap for transformation is described in Air Force Flight Plan, 2003, which on pages 51-56 expands the notion of information operations described in the vision statement to the notion of information superiority:10 Information superiority is a key enabler of the type of revolutionary change described by RMA [revolution in military affairs]
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· Global information enterprise. Methods to move, process, manage, and protect information throughout the Global Information Grid (GIG)
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Final background information was provided to the committee in a briefing by Shankara Sastry of the University of California at Berkeley, who chaired an IS&T review panel for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board that issued a report on November 21, 2003. That review identified several key IS&T areas for investment: the scalability of the information management systems under investigation, security and real-time capability, mission management technologies for unmanned air vehicles in mixed manned/unmanned environments, and embedded software and systems.
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. A cooperative decision and control theoretic framework is of interest to address robust dynamic control of distributed UAVs executing multiple, strongly coupled tasks with a high degree of decentralization.
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Some specific areas of Infospheric Science research follow: · Models of Information Flows · Metrics for Information Flow · Hierarchical Flow Models · Information Dynamics · Managing Massive Numbers of Triggers · Information Pedigree/Certainty · Stream Data Processing · Automated Downgrading of Sensitive Information · Preventing Self-Inflicted DoS Attacks · Audit Data for Damage Assessment · Steganography Detection · Secure Code Composition · Distributed, Assured Pipelines · Application Layer Multicast Encryption · Seamless Integration of Wireline-Wireless Networks · Network Monitoring, Measurement, and Inferencing · Ad Hoc Wireless Networking · Middleware · Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) System Stability · Dynamic System Management · JBI Information Metadata and Structure · Evolvable Components The need to collect, integrate, and disseminate information from widely disparate sources will be crucial.
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capable of gathering information, reducing data to a manageable amount of essential information, and cooperating with other agents to solve problems. Research is also needed to combine artificial intelligence methods with operations research tools to overcome inefficiencies in solving some mission-critical Air Force problems (e.g., scheduling in a distributed, dynamic environment)
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