The Information Age and Naval Command & Control

Power to the Edge: Command...Control...in the Information Age

Cognitive Modelling for Decision Support in Naval Command & Control

Traditionally, a decision support system is built to help a broad range of users in their decision making. However, there are some domains such as air traffic control, the nuclear industry, and certain military tasks, where it is critical that particular individuals make correct judgements for the safety of themselves and others. For such people, it is possible that a decision support system ta...

Argumentation-based Decision Support in Naval Command & Control

Threat Evaluation and Weapons Assignment (TEWA), a process which is at the heart of tactical naval Command & Control (C2) process, comprises a number of operations that must be performed under time and resource constraints. This article discusses the challenges of decision making in this context, and more particularly the critical issue of target engagement, and shows how this process can be su...

The Power of Information Age Concepts and Technologies An Environment for Comparing Command and Control Architectures

As the Services move to transform joint and coalition operations, a new capability being contemplated for the transformed forces is synchronizing manned-combat-vehicle and unmanned-combat-vehicle target engagements. However, we are just beginning to work out the details for implementing such a symphony of coordinated human and machine decisions and actions. One challenge in realizing an impleme...

Transforming Military Command and Control Information Exchange

The DoD develops and manages information exchange requirements and their associated business practices to support all military operations. To support the required information exchanges, messaging standards and associated business rules for information exchange among command and control systems have been developed and used for the past thirty years. These messaging standards serve a global user ...