Current C2 Systems and Proposed Enhancements (abstract)

As military coalitions take on increasingly global and dynamic missions, they face multiple interacting forces, among them rapid deployment schedules and heterogeneous command and control systems, which all bring additional information sharing requirements and integration issues. In the past, misuse of all-to-all communication methods and technology has led to unnecessary and time-consuming "noise" and has caused information overload. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the current FBCB2 system, reveals the inadequacies of the system and proceeds to propose an intent-driven design model to eliminate excess noise. The Digital Cross-Talk (DCT) system is proposed as an archetypal mechanism for addressing the current system’s problems. DCT functions by transparently capturing and analyzing all WOSF communications from users and various battlefield systems to provide predictive error-checking and conflict resolution.

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