Priscilla McAndrews, Lisa Nicklas, and Dr. J. Mark Pullen C4I Center George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030, USA +1 703 993 3682 {pmcandre,lnicklas,mpullen}@c4i.gmu.edu Experience has demonstrated that practical deployment of SISO Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) and Coalition Battle Management Language (C-­‐BML) at a scale beyond one C2 system connected to one simulation system...

The ICARUS EU-FP7 project deals with the development of a set of integrated components to assist search and rescue teams in dealing with the difficult and dangerous, but life-saving task of finding human survivors. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground and sea vehicles, equipped with victim detection sensors. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communic...

Although a lot of research has taken place in Object Oriented Design of software for Real Time systems and mapping of design models to implementation models, these methodologies are applicable to systems which are less complex and small in source code size. However, in practice, the size of the software for real time applications is growing. The run time architecture of real time applications i...

The ICARUS EU-FP7 project deals with the development of a set of integrated components to assist search and rescue teams in dealing with the difficult and dangerous, but life-saving task of finding human survivors. The ICARUS tools consist of assistive unmanned air, ground and sea vehicles, equipped with victim detection sensors. The unmanned vehicles collaborate as a coordinated team, communic...

Based on object technology, the OMG defines an Object Management Architecture (OMA) for the support of interoperable applications across heterogeneous computing platforms. The communication core of this underlying model is the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) that provides a framework for flexible and transparent communication between distributed objects. The adoption of this a...

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...

The term “human terrain” was coined recently by the Army in response to critical needs for information about the individuals, groups and the workings of the society in general in Iraq. The call for help and the response to date has focused on tactical operations, but it is essential to consider the possibility that the tactical need points to a strategic issue for the C4ISR community. In this p...

The tactical land command, control, communications, computer and intelligence structure is essentially an array of complex and dynamic systems of systems. In this paper we address a capability deficiency in the identification and analysis of critical information requirements, flows and processes to support decision-making within this tactical structure. We accomplish this by incorporating model...

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...