CC44I for the Objective ForceI for the Objective Force

2800 Powder Mill RdAdelphi, MD 20783

301.394.1722Gowens@arl.army.mil

Direct Fire Function

Infantry Carrier Function

Indirect Fire Function

Sensor Function

Organic & Inorganic

RSTA

NetworkNetworkCentricCentric

Dr. John W. Gowens II

The Army Research Laboratory

“Command and control systems-based on information and communications technology - and precision-guided munitions are be critical to all stages of the Pentagon's efforts to transform itself to deal with 21st century threats. ---- Paul Wolfowitz, DSECDEF at AIAA lunch,19 Feb 02.

“The area with the greatest potential payoff...is in C4ISR... (to) ensure our commanders have the best information for rapid battlefield decision-making” ---- Gen Richard B. Meyers, CJCS, SASC testimony, 5 Feb 02

The VisionThe VisionBattlespace Dominance through Information Superiority

CC44I for the Objective I for the Objective ForceForce

Objective: A fully mobile and lightweight force with internetted C4I with

Communications on-the-move for the mobile commander

Tactical network security

High bandwidth for burst communications

Energy efficient networking for sensor networks

Decision support tools for Unit of Action

Communications On-The-MoveCommunications On-The-Move

Fully-mobile, fully-communicating, situation-aware force operating in a highly dynamic, mobile networking environment

Challenges: Scalability to thousands of nodes Operate over wireless channels with high

levels of interference, jamming, and EW threats

Operate on-the-move with highly mobile nodes AND infrastructure

Severe energy, bandwidth, spectrum, and computational constraints

QoS, LPI, LPD, and security requirements Seamless interoperability

Projects: Self-Configuring Wireless

Networks Efficient End-to-End

Networking Comms Signal Processing Tactical Network Security Free-Space Optical

Communications

Array Transmitter Array ReceiverScattering Channel

Energy-Efficient NetworkingEnergy-Efficient Networking

Energy-efficient communications for heterogeneous, distributed unattended networked microsensors and robotics

Challenges: Robust communications in highly energy and

bandwidth-constrained environment Self-organizing ad hoc networks adapting to:

Various delivery mechanisms Node failures Intermittent connectivity Mobility

Operate over noisy wireless channels with: Severe near-earth propagation effects

(1/R4 versus 1/R2) Limits on antenna gain at low launch angles Multipath, fading, and multi-access

interference

Protection of sensor information while forward-deployed

Projects: Highly-Efficient Media

Access and Topology Control

Energy-Efficient Miniature Radios

Energy-Efficient Sensor Networking

Decision Support ToolsDecision Support Tools

Decision support for the commander-on-the-move

Challenges: Automated tools to support the flow and

synchronization of data/information among humans and computers

Conventional user interface (mouse and keyboard) distracts cognitive process

An automated way to integrate & visualize the complexity of battle space

Transformation of data to information and information into knowledge

Seamless information access of legacy data sources

Distributed/remote processing

Projects: Collaboration Technologies Battlefield Visualization Multilingual Computing Global Enterprise

Integration

Integrated C4IIntegrated C4I

CommunicationsSoldier/Agent Collaboration

PhysicalAgents

SoftwareAgents

BattlefieldVisualization

Soldiers

Multimodal Interaction

Intuitive Visualization

Unattended Ground Sensors

““Heavy forces must be more strategically deployable Heavy forces must be more strategically deployable and more agile with a smaller logistical footprint, and more agile with a smaller logistical footprint, and light forces must be more lethal, survivable and light forces must be more lethal, survivable

and tactically mobile. "and tactically mobile. "

". . . provide survivability through . . . long-range ". . . provide survivability through . . . long-range acquisition, deep targeting, early attack, and acquisition, deep targeting, early attack, and first round kill . . . ”first round kill . . . ”