Strategy for an Army Center for Network Science, Technology, and Experimentation (2007) / Chapter Skim
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4 Infrastructure Resources Necessary for Army Network Science, Technology, and Experimentation
4 Infrastructure Resources Necessary for Army Network Science, Technology, and Experimentation
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The first two areas tend to be focused on the development of new capabilities associated with enabling information networks to support network-centric operations and on the social and human networks involved in decision making. Network-centric operations involve people, processes, and information technologies working together to enable timely and trusted access to and sharing of information, as well as collaboration among those who need it.
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must be capable of supporting: • Development of fundamental network theory and network technologies, • Assessment of impacts on human performance, • Integration of new technologies and social networks into capabilities, and • Experimentation as a means to test and confirm fundamental theories and models and/or to characterize new technologies and operational con cepts while also being capable of promoting training of personnel when applicable. Network science theory currently is focused on fundamentals of information theory, decision making, and understanding of network vulnerabilities.
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Theoretical research will require extensive network modeling facilities, including a computing infrastructure with supercomputing capabilities. An improved understanding of the complex, large-scale, and dynamic nature of human and social network interactions will be advanced through the use of highfidelity models that include physical wireless networks, i.e., complex models that will involve very intensive computations.
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information transmission. These networks would ensure GIG connectivity to the other Army and governmental organizations concerned with network advances, such as the Army Materiel Command, Department of the Army staff, the Army Training and Doctrine Command, the Army Intelligence and Security Command, the Defense Information Systems Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.
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4. Ensure that the impact of research in information and communication science is measured in terms of how it benefits human performance in the network, both in the laboratory and in field environments.
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Experimentation The DOD has long embraced experimentation as a fundamental tool for building capabilities. As in the physical sciences, experimentation is essential in this case for improving fundamental understanding and expanding knowledge in the areas of information and communications, adversary understanding, and human performance in networks.
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Equally critical is the timely availability of networked vehicles across distributed experimental ranges, aircraft, and the various platforms that are integral to the experiments. Major elements of an instrumented-distributed test range for Army NSTE should include: • A facility of ~100 nodes, most or all of which can be in motion (represent ing vehicles, in a typical future Army sub-net)
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Artificial environments sometimes would be required. As previously noted, network science experimentation requires new "tools" with emphasis on an integrated family of models ranging from customized spreadsheets and war games to high-resolution simulations.
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• Secret/top-secret/sensitive compartmented information facilities • Dedicated network innovation labs Fully instrumented Human performance Mobile and C2 networks, networked sensors, etc. Adversary networks • High-capacity (Gb)
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computer, video, and audio conferencing) • Intelligent computer software "agents" to enable enhanced collaboration and improved understanding of human performance ORgANIzATIONAL ELEMENTS OF AN NSTEC In addition to the infrastructure needed to support a center for NSTE, a full NSTE capability will also involve government, industry, and academia, and all three must be considered in determining an organizational approach for an Army NSTEC.
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The importance of networks to military performance is increasing rapidly, and NSTE deserves substantially increased attention by the S&T community. In the long term, the NSTEC should become a joint entity serving the needs of all of the U.S.
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An obvious but far from optimal version of an NSTEC would involve merely relocating elements of various existing Army organizations to a centralized government-operated location such as Aberdeen Proving Ground. To be effective, any such relocation should involve an attractive physical plant with stateof-the-art technical facilities.
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Recommendation 3: The Army should plan and fund for NSTE infrastructure resources that provide for (1) flexible configurations of network experiments and integration, both internally and externally; (2)
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