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1.3 Integrating Force Elements: A Mission-Specific Study of Power Projection
1.3 Integrating Force Elements: A Mission-Specific Study of Power Projection
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3. The CNO and the CMC should give the Navy Warfare Development Command and the Marine Corps Combat Development Command the responsibility of working together to devise joint concepts and doctrine for networkcentric operations for the naval forces as a whole, and to incorporate joint and coalition aspects of such operations in their concepts.
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emphasis on the power projection mission described in the introduction to this overview and integrated into the detailed discussion in Chapter 3. 1.3.2 Critical System Needs Developing the capability for effective power projection by the Navy and Marine Corps requires that the mission-specific networked operations that have already been developed must be integrated into a comprehensive NCO system structure (see Figure 1.1~.
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1.3.2.1 Sensors and Target Acquisition To provide all the information needed for force movement and weapon delivery, sensors will have to be linked, as, for example, distributed radars are used in CEC, electronic intelligence sensors are used to guide SEAD attacks, and the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) is used to cue specific weapon-targeting sensors against ground forces.
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Single Radar Uncertainty Radar 1 Dual Rat Uncertai Radar 1 Regio Radar 2 FIGURE 1.4 Reducing target location error with linked cooperating sensors in common coordinates.
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The challenge in network-centric operations is to enable OODA loops that span space and time as effectively and as rapidly for dispersed force elements as for a single platform, particularly when some sensors may be involved in multiple loops. Any sensor and processor with useful data or information will provide it for anyone who can use it, and the provider may not know who the user is nor the user who the provider is.
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Also, targeting and weapon delivery must be locked in the same reference grid to minimize the error due to target location inaccuracies. 1.3.2.3 Weapons Naval force weapons are being made more accurate to reduce the need to reattack targets and to reduce collateral damage.
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In all Department of the Navy planning and acquisition activities, the integration of components for the power projection mission, as well as the integration of the power projection subsystems with the subsystems for other naval force missions such as air and maritime dominance, should be considered as the combination of related parts of a total NCO system, including all the component functions and equipment described above. This includes the naval forces' continuing efforts in the areas of countermine and amphibious warfare, and other efforts.
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Those recommendations aim at improving specific sensor and weapon technologies, thereby greatly enhancing the naval forces' ability to carry out effective sealaunched strike missions and to provide highly responsive, long-range, affordable, sustainable, accurate, high-volume ship- and aircraft-launched supporting fire. These detailed recommendations are as essential to successful achievement of the aims of NCO systems as are the higher-level recommendations included in this overview.
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