Framework for Measuring the Impact of C4ISR Technologies and Concepts on Warfighter Effectiveness Using High Resolution Simulation

A C4ISR architecture for future forces is a major concern to the Army. This report describes progress of an on-going project to develop a framework for assessing individual communication technologies and concepts by accounting for technological and operational detail. Assessments of communication pe...

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Main Authors: Porche, Isaac, Jamison, Lewis, Herbert, Tom
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ARMY PLANNING
C4ISR(COMMAND CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS COMPUTERS INTELLILENGE SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE)
COMBAT EFFECTIVENESS
COMBAT SIMULATION
COMMAND CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS
Command, Control and Communications Systems
COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
FORCE ON FORCE SIMULATION
HIGH RESOLUTION
JANUS
MESSAGE PROCESSING
META MODELS
Military Intelligence
Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
QUALNET COMPUTER PROGRAM
RECONNAISSANCE
SCENARIOS
SURVEILLANCE
SYMPOSIA
TEST AND EVALUATION
WARFIGHTER EFFECTIVENESS
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Summary:A C4ISR architecture for future forces is a major concern to the Army. This report describes progress of an on-going project to develop a framework for assessing individual communication technologies and concepts by accounting for technological and operational detail. Assessments of communication performance (e.g., message delay and message completion rate) factor terrain, mobility, and other scenario specific details via high-resolution simulations. For such measurements, excessive run-times can be a problem. This is usually the case for high-resolution simulation of communication networks. However, in this paper, it is shown that high-resolution communication network simulation runs (using Qualnet(copyrighted), although time consuming, can be used to capture the dynamics of communication performance in closed form expressions or meta-models. The meta-models can then be embedded into force-on-force simulation (JANUS) to get perhaps the most important performance measure, e.g., warfighter effectiveness. This forms a framework that supports detailed, scenario specific examination of the impact of C4ISR on warfighter effectiveness. Presented at the Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (CCRTS 2004), held in San Diego, CA on 15-17 June 2004. Pub. in the Proceedings of the Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (CCRTS 2004), 2004. The original document contains color images.