NetworkCentric Battlefield Operations AIAA Team 3 Mike Lunsford

Network-Centric Battlefield Operations AIAA Team 3 -Mike Lunsford -Paul Koerner

Overview n n n Definition of Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) Why do we need it? Previous Operations Future of network centric battlefields How military transports fit into the battlespace Conclusion

What is NCW? n n n n n Network-Centric Warfare Commonly called Network-Centric Operations (NCO) An emerging theory of war in the Information Age Using information to gain competitive edge A networked force performing network-centric operations Networked force for information sharing Increased situational awareness Enhanced speed of command Networking sensors, decision makers, and shooters

Defining the Battlespace Bad Guys Sensors to collect: n n n Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Good Guys n Navigation Systems (GPS) ¡ n Embedded sensors ¡ ¡ n Transmit current position & receive relevant position info on others Status on fuel, ammo remaining Vehicle loading and use (maintenance) Weather sensors ¡ Environment

Global Information Grid (GIG) “Will provide the joint and coalition warfighter with a single, end-to-end information system capability… allowing users to access shared data and applications regardless of location, and is supported by a robust network/information-centric infrastructure. ” n n Integrated Interoperable ¡ ¡ ¡ n n Between platforms Joint operations Coalition forces World wide network Secure Owned and leased Operating locations: bases, posts, camps, stations, facilities, mobile platforms, and deployed sites Supports all Do. D, national security, and related intelligence community missions and functions (strategic, operational, tactical, and business), in war and in peace.

Why do we need it? n n Do. D initiative that draws upon the work of many military strategists and policy theorists Changing battlespace ¡ ¡ ¡ Urban warfare 50% of the world’s population now live in cities Fastest urban growth occurs in developing countries where conflicts are likely to occur Lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan Need for targeting, precision, and situational awareness

Previous Operations n Platform-centric operations ¡ Voice Communication ¡ No Data Communication ¡ Nothing Integrated

Future of NCO n n Army: Future Combat Systems Navy: Force. Net Air Force: Constellation. Net Improved communications systems ¡ T-Sat ¡ Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)

Future Combat Systems Building Blocks n System-of-Systems Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE) ¡ n Battle Command (BC) software ¡ n Mission planning, understanding, execution Communication and Computers (CC) ¡ n Standards based architecture and administrative applications Dissemination of information from sensors, processors, warfighters Intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance (ISR) systems ¡ Situational awareness, enhance survivability, precision networked fires, maintain contact throughout engagement

Future Combat Systems Fielded by 2014. Cost estimate: $300 billion n UGS ¡ The Soldier Class I UAV n NLOS-LS ¡ UGS MULE n NLOS-LS n Self contained tactical firing with 15 loitering attack or precision attack missiles Class I UAV ¡ NLOS-C Perimeter defense, surveillance, target acquisition, chemical, bio, radiological nuclear early warning Controlled by dismounted soldiers provides recon, surveillance, target acquisition. (weighs less than 15 lbs). MULE ¡ Multifuntional Utility/Logistics Equipment vehicle, autonomous. Can be either: assault, transport, mine detector vehicle.

JTRS A waveform is the entire set of radio and/or communications functions that occur from the user input to the radio frequency output and vice versa. There are 9 JTRS waveforms: n n n n n Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) Joint Airborne Networking–Tactical Edge (JAN-TE) Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) SINCGARS Link-16 EPLRS High Frequency (HF) UHF SATCOM Cost per Unit: $10, 000 to $270, 000

T-Sat Transformational Satellite Communications System n n n The space element of the GIG 5 highly advanced communications in geosynchronous orbit Will provide both laser and radio com Crosslinked with other space platforms, airborne, land-based, and sea-based platforms Demand for satcom bandwidth to support military ops has increased from 100 Mbps (Gulf War) to 3, 200 Mbps (Iraq) First launch planned for 2013 -2015 time frame Fact: A visual image from a UAV that would take 2 minutes to process with the Milstar II satellite system would take less than a second with TSAT

Current C-17 Network n n Combat Track II Electronic Flight Bag ¡ ¡ ¡ n Performance Calculations Electronic Documents/Charts Maximize Safety Advanced Wireless Open Data System

Concluding remarks n n n Information superiority See first, understand first, act first, and finish decisively Smaller, lighter, more mobile force with more firepower Interoperable between platforms and forces Ambitious undertaking

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