The ability to interface C4I systems with simulations represents a powerful approach for analyzing complex military plans, and generating appropriate courses of action. The simulations provide a context of the real world, in which the plan can be exercised, “what-if’s” can be performed, and intelligent courses of action can be generated. To build more “intelligence” in our ability to generate c...

Many people have noted that the Government keeps buying software−intensive systems that are often quite similar to each other. A recent article in Crosstalk1, for example, listed a large number of different systems in the DoD C4I application area that performed essentially the same functions. Several DoD sponsored studies, most notably one done by the Air Force PRISM program, have shown that 70...

JOEF (Joint Operational Effects Federation) is a simulation federation that supports CBRN (Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear warfare on military operations. Its primary interface to users is JWARN (Joint Warning and Reporting Network), which is an automated reporting of CBRN incidents for the joint or each service. It also automates the transfer of data between CBRN detectors/sensors...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a promising approach used to reduce the time and cost of business solutions in enterprises, and it provides enterprises with agility to respond dynamically to its changing requirements. Therefore, there is a need for great efforts to move agencies and enterprises into systems, such as C4I systems and those that are supported by SOAs. For this reason, numer...

CTA Trends and Challenges (CTAs involved) ENS Electronics, Networking, and Systems/C4I 1. TC-ENS1-DoD mission requirements increasingly drive RD&E efforts to explore deployable HPC solutions, as opposed to the traditional model of HPC center with reach-back capabilities. This trend is driven by the perception that new technologies (e.g., general-purpose graphics processing units or GPGPUs), can...