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 ...

In Chapter One, we described some of the current dominant theories of command and control: control theory, organization charts, and cognitive science. In this appendix, we provide brief descriptions of other cybernetic-related or cognitive-science-related theories, discuss deviations from these dominant paradigms, and relate the cybernetic paradigm to technology development. The fundamental nee...

This paper presents the development of a set of ontologies for use in messaging systems within military and emergency first responder command and control applications. These ontologies are used to annotate and subscribe to messages within a content delivery and service discovery middleware connecting sensors, services, and agents on the network. Ontologies serve an important role in this middle...

Command and Control (C2) in a military setting can be epitomized in battles-of-old when commanders would seek high ground to gain superior spatial-temporal information; from this vantage point, decisions were made and relayed to units in the field. Although the fundamentals remain, technology has changed the practice of C2; for example, enemy units may be observed remotely, with instruments of ...

Meteorological Command & Control is the software architecture that performs the main control loop of our radar sensor network in southwestern Oklahoma. In this control loop data is ingested from the radars, meteorological features are identified in this data, features are reported to end-users, and each radar's future scan strategy based on detected features and end-user requirements is determi...

One of the leading problems in cyber security today is the emergence of targeted attacks conducted by adversaries with access to sophisticated tools, sometimes referred to as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). These attacks target specific organisations or individuals and aim at establishing a continuous and undetected presence in the targeted infrastructure. The goal of these attacks is often...