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1.4 Designing a Common Command and Information Infrastructure
Pages 31-40

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From page 31...
... All the Services are striving to achieve the capability to share information, based in large measure on the Internet paradigm. The Internet's robust, networked communications base enables rapid, ready, and flexible access to information and supports the applications that provide information and services to a widely dispersed user population.
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From page 32...
... Purely military functions will appear more in the information processing and command parts of the NCII, where security and the special characteristics of military operations are driving factors, although purely military functional capabilities will be built in good measure from commercial sources and technology. The NCII should be recognized as the naval force portion of an information infrastructure that is interwoven with, shares common components with, and adheres to the same set of standards as other Service, National, and, when appropriate coalition networks, such that all function as a global whole.
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From page 33...
... Such outlying tactical networks can be connected into the Internet-based NCII via IP-capable 7Furthermore, as far as the committee can tell, this focus on the Joint Data and Joint Composite Tracking Networks omits consideration of all other tactical communications networks currently employed by the Navy that are part of the overall information transfer capability. These include various sensor links e.g., for MTI and synthetic aperture radar data and links to weapons control systems e.g., ultrahigh frequency satellite communications target location updates for Tomahawk.
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From page 34...
... Information presentation and decision support includes the graphical means for displaying information to users and the set of automated Information Gathering and Generation/Command Dissemination Requests/Control ~~~ | Information Feedback Supporting Resource Base System Resource Management Information Assurance Communications and Networking FIGURE 1.7 Functional architecture of the Naval Command and Information Infrastructure.
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From page 35...
... A critical vulnerability in the nontransport part of the NCII derives from the threat posed by the potential malicious insider, who could, working alone or with outside adversaries, cause serious disruption to network-centric operations. NCII information assurance must be achieved throughout the information infrastructure, including wireless links.
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From page 36...
... Mitigation of vulnerabilities will come from many measures in the defense in depth, with support from continual red teaming, but the organizational problems will have to be remedied as well. In addition, because of the likelihood of attack on the NCII or its operational degradation, it is imperative that naval forces train for situations with impaired NCII function.
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From page 37...
... These include the Navy's IT-21 strategy; the Navy/Marine intranet; the Global Command and Control SystemMaritime; software radios that can emulate multiple legacy radios and also adaptively select appropriately robust waveforms; the design guidance in the Information Technology Standards Guidance; naval communications and software research at the Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratory, and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) ; and in a broader sense the DOD Global Information Grid as it becomes more specifically defined.
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From page 38...
... NCII. Sufficient information was not available to the committee to resolve the matter of communications capacity requirements, but it appears that stated future Navy communications requirements could be unrealistically low, even though the available military and commercial satellite communications (SATCOM)
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From page 39...
... Information assurance will be an essential factor in the NCII's evolution and adaptation for network-centric operations. Finally, it must be noted that efforts to maintain the current distinction between the Joint Planning Network and the Joint Data Network, and likewise to maintain unique protocols for imagery data links, appear not only counterproductive in terms of such factors as interoperability, but also unnecessary in light of developing communications and network technology.
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From page 40...
... 6. The Department of the Navy should conduct continuing comprehensive analysis of communication capacity requirements and projected availability, and should identify remedial actions if significant shortfalls exist.
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  • tactical radio
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