A common assumption in organizations is that information sharing improves situation awareness and ultimately organizational effectiveness. The sheer volume and rapid pace of information and communications received and readily accessible through computer networks, however, can overwhelm individuals, resulting in data overload from a combination of diverse data sources, multiple data formats, and...

5G-enabled drones have potential applications in a variety of both military and civilian settings (e.g., monitoring tracking individuals demonstrations and/or enforcing social/ physical distancing during pandemics such as COVID-19). Such generally involve the collection dissemination (massive) data from to remote centers for storage analysis via 5G networks). Consequently, there are security pr...

uilding upon rapid advances in robotics, control, communications and computer technology, UAVs will undoubtedly be called upon to play an ever-increasing role in the civilian and military communities. Military strategic planning has already started to incorporate wide-ranging roles for UAVs, such as tactical surveillance, communications relay, target designation, battle damage assessment and co...

Adaptation of commercial Internet solutions for providing effective mechanisms supporting user’s mobility, information security and quality of services is the subject of several research projects running both nationally and internationally. From the military perspective, the IPv6-based solutions must provide required level of performance for networks deployed in specific tactical environment. S...

As computers and their supporting communication networks have become increasingly enmeshed in our national technological fabric, we have become increasingly dependent on high assurance computer systems, i.e., computer systems for which compelling evidence is required that the system delivers its services in a manner that satis es certain critical properties. Obvious examples of high assurance s...

Computer network operations (CNO) can have an effect technically over any systems using logical communications, not limited to nodes with Internet connectivity. We note in this article some more unconventional venues to attack information systems security with radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, and develop a threat model for RFID in military use. Unprotected RFID tags offer a b...

Modern concepts of operations for multinational operations within NATO and partners require air-interface interoperability for VHF and UHF tactical communications. This contrasts with the historical approach to interoperability of using wired gateways at the higher network levels. As a result of the historical trends, national combat-net radios (CNR) have been procured from industry conforming ...

The number of wireless connected devices are growing exponentially and the importance of this research area is growing as well to meet the known and looming challenges and expectations. The 5:th Generation telecommunications standard is partly embodied by the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and standards to handle a big part of these devices and connections. A...

For organizations, the value of information is to improve decision making. In the military in particular, information’s role in warfare has always been to affect decisions at all levels – from strategic to tactical to put one’s forces in a position of advantage. In the information age, the cost of communicating such information has been so phenomenally reduced that it now becomes possible for i...

As the Air Force moves toward its vision of a mixed force of inhabited and uninhabited air and space vehicles, the role of integrated command, control, communications, and computation will continue to increase in importance. A key element in all future military systems will be the role of communications networks and the increased use of information ow as an integral part of military operations....