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8 Extending the Littoral Battlespace (ELB) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
Pages 65-69

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... These radios included ad hoc networking software and were expected to organize themselves into a backbone network that would carry traffic between the ships, aircraft, and ground positions. The radios were attached to WaveLan base stations so as to 65
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From page 66...
... Thus, a second ELB ACTD has been scheduled that will fix some of the obvious technical problems with the communications network and allow further operational experiments. This new experiment will also introduce newer C2 systems such as the integrated Marine multiagent command and control system, laptop servers down to the company level, multiple battlespace views, and interfaces to other (joint)
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From page 67...
... RECOMMENDATIONS Focus on Experimentation The committee recommends that the ONR and the Marine Corps focus their efforts on the operational experimentation in ELB rather than on technical development. The goal should be to understand how operations may work once a production tactical data network is successfully deployed, rather than to try to deploy such a network.
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From page 68...
... Collaborate Consistent with the recommendations of Chapter 6, the committee recommends that the ONR should work collaboratively with other agencies (e.g., the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Army Communications Electronics Command) to help develop mature ad hoc networking technology.
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From page 69...
... The committee strongly urges ONR Code 353 to remain focused on the main task at hand to gain insights and to start to gather quantitative data. ELB is a perfect opportunity to study and learn as much as possible in preparation for design of the real systems to follow.
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  • wavelan wireless
  • active nodes
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  • intruder detection
  • help develop
  • usually poorly
  • modest amount
  • communications links


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