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5. Information Flow: Leveraging Network-Centric Concepts
5. Information Flow: Leveraging Network-Centric Concepts
Pages 110-123
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In its report, Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities, the National Research Council (2000a) , defined such operations as follows: "Network-centric operations are military operations that exploit state-of-the-art information and networking technology to integrate widely dispersed human decisionmakers, situational and targeting sensors, and forces and weapons into a highly adaptive comprehensive system to achieve unprecedented mission effectiveness." 110
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Future naval forces must be supported by a shared and consolidated picture of the situation, distributed collaborative planning, and battlespace control capabilities. In addition, the forces must be capable of coordinating and massing for land attacks and of employing multisensor networking and targeting for undersea warfare and missile defense.
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Network-Centric Changes to the METOC Business Model The end consequence of a network-centric business model is the movement away from stovepipes, away from hierarchical concepts of operation, tiered organizations, and closed processes toward an integrated network-centric working environment. This in turn requires that traditional information flow be modified so that the infrastructure supports the warfighter directly.
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It is difficult, therefore, to estimate the contribution of METOC warfighting products to improved capabilities. The METOC business model for meeting the enhanced warfighting capabilities mission objective should be examined in light of e-commerce principles and network-centric warfare operational concepts.
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LEVEL 2 RECOMMENDATION The Level 2 system recommendation is to add methods for a distributed sensor network to the METOC business model (see Figure 5-4~. This will increase
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This has the potential to benefit METOC by adding temporal and spatial resolution to the ingested data stream. Its implementation capitalizes on Internet Protocol/Transmission Control Protocol technology to address sensors across the battlefield.
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1 ~ WEAPON SYSTEM Predicted Assimilate/ Process Exploit -- T Assimilate/ Process Exploit order status estimate contribution FIGURE 5-5 Level 3 adds a fusion and enables user to compute event outcomes in his or her own familiar framework. It also allows user to quickly draw inferences and suggest additional tasking and makes use of partially processed data as available.
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While good for regional predictions in deep water, ambient noise can be very dynamic if near shipping and fishing, local biological noises, and weather-induced levels. Active systems rely on scattering strength measurements.
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iAcoustic rapid COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) insertion, or ARCI, is a modernization effort designed to bring about rapid improvement in processing performance at low cost by modifying and then installing existing commercial off-the-shelf technology to improve acoustic sensor performance onboard submarines.
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Two major findings can be derived from the information flow analysis. First, the current METOC information flow for its two primary missions, Safe Operating Forces and Enhanced Warfighting Capabilities, is generally a one-way stovepipe; the customer requests and receives a product but has no intermediate data access or visibility into the process.
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Interoperability means that the subsystems must be able to transfer raw or processed data among themselves by any means that can be made available, from actually having the common waveforms and data formats to using standard interfaces or intermediate black boxes enabling translation from one to another. Ensuring interoperability will be a very complex and technically intensive task involving network protocols, data standards, consistency algorithms, and many other aspects of networking design as well as numerous procedural matters.
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