Dstl has sponsored the development and use of several campaign level models of military operations. The models are required to provide insight into force assessment, procurement decisions of future concepts and for investigations into potential doctrinal developments. COMAND is a theatre level representation of the naval-air (maritime) campaign. COMAND also contains a simple representation of t...

The article provides an analysis of the experience professional training future officers Italian Navy. On example Naval Academy in Livorno, educational process midshipmen has been examined detail. It found that main goal education and Livorno is formation values honor responsibility, which are characteristics all servicemen particular. noted provides: 1) basic for Navy; 2) specialization course...

Naval combat platforms will increasingly operate in littoral environments where they will be exposed to a variety of anti-ship threats. To defend against these threats, a warship will use different means, including hard-kill weapons and soft-kill measures. Efficient allocation and coordination of these combat resources is a complex decision-making problem, where a huge amount of imperfect data ...

An effective systems engineering process will provide the framework to enable the complex technical endeavor of railgun system design and development to transition from a set of research projects to a viable acquisition program. The detailed formulation and application of the railgun systems engineering process will be defined by government acquisition agents and the selected private sector con...

This paper reports on the ongoing collaborative activity between Saab Systems and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in support of Australian research in naval combat systems. The particular case considered is that involving the integration of the ANZAC Ship Combat Management System (CMS) within the DSTO High Level Architecture (HLA) based Virtual Maritime System (VMS). The ...

This paper presents a methodology for performing architectural analyses of complex systems of systems using process modeling. A process is a series of actions undertaken by a system of systems to produce one or more end results, typically products and services. The method applies to systems-of systems whose effectiveness and performance depend strongly on process timelines, such as distributed ...

There is an increasing need within the Navy and Marine Corps for building distributed situation-aware applications that are rapidly recon gurable and survivable in the face of attacks and changing mission needs. For the Navy's vision of Network Centric Warfare and the Total Ship Computing Environment to succeed, there is an urgent need for a secure, robust, and survivable network infrastructure...