C4ISR: A Comprehensive Approach

Systems Engineering: a Natural Approach to C4ISR

In 1998, the United States Department of Defense mandated the C4ISR Architecture Framework for all ongoing and future contracted architectures. The goal is to ensure that future military systems are interoperable and provide the warfighter with the support and effectiveness required for successful missions. The C4ISR Architecture Framework specifies a set of “standard” views capturing various s...

C4ISR Architectures: I. Developing a Process for C4ISR Architecture Design

The C4ISR Architecture Framework document issued by the Department of Defense specifies three views of an information architecture and defines a set of products that describe each view. These architecture views are to serve as the basis for C4ISR system development and acquisition. The Framework does not provide a process for architecture design. In this paper, information architectures are des...

Measuring Customer Acquisition Value: A Comprehensive Approach to Customer Equity

In information technology era, databases are known asone of the most valuable resources for organizations, especially usedin database marketing. Customer Equity is a key concept in DatabaseMarketing which integrates customer acquisition, retention and development.From the perspective of customer equity, customers are theprimary source of both current and future cash-flows. Customer equitymodels...

A Comprehensive Approach

Using the C4ISR Architecture Framework

To harmonize the individual architectures of the different commands, services, and agencies dealing with the development and procurement of Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Intelligence (C4ISR) systems, the C4ISR Architecture Framework was developed based on existing and matured modeling techniques and methods. Within a short period, NATO adapted th...