shared operational context: a needed transformation
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Shared Operational Context: A Needed Transformation. Erik Chaum NUWC S&T Presentation July 2002. Team. Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Advanced Systems and Concepts) Mr. Dick Lee Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport Mr. Erik Chaum Mr. Ernie Correia - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Shared Operational Context:A Needed Transformation
Erik ChaumNUWC S&T Presentation
July 2002
Undersea Warfare CenterTeam Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of
Defense (Advanced Systems and Concepts) Mr. Dick Lee
Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport Mr. Erik Chaum Mr. Ernie Correia
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Dr. Don Brutzman
Institute for Defense Analysis Dr. Gene Simaitis Dr. Francisco Loaiza
Undersea Warfare CenterOutline
NCW Challenge An essential trilogy Opportunity: Generic Hub ACTD 01: C4I Coalition Warfare Future Opportunities
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Decision & Information Superiority resulting in more timely, relevant, and accurate effects.
NCW Challenge Information Age transformation of war fighting
systems and processes. More than connectivity. Broad tactical and operational shared-awareness. This type of
sophisticated shared understanding will leading to improved synchronization of effects, speed of command and effectiveness.
Ubiquitous Interoperability & Info Sharing The ability to work together: Intra-service, Joint, Coalition
Are we progressing to the goal? Are all the pieces in place - just more time and funding required?
Undersea Warfare CenterAn Analogy
Military decision maker Intelligent part of
today’s system Scenario
Well trained Perfect Tactical Picture
Decision makers Need Context to make decisions
Operational Context is today maintained in the warfighter
“part” of tactical and command and control systems.
Undersea Warfare CenterTrilogy
AutomationInteroperability
Operational Context
SharedUnderstanding
NCW Foundation Pillars
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This information and knowledge is understood by people, and must be available and used by automated systems!
Operational Context Situational Awareness includes shared
understanding regarding: the scope of operations command relationships task force order of battle mission assignments/
objectives Commander's Intent rules of engagement (ROE) coordination guidelines
schedule of operations communication schedules battlespace management
(e.g., waterspace management) sensor employment and
management plans/guidance threat assessment environmental guidance Family of Interoperable
Operational Pictures [FIOP]
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Data Fusion Sys #1:
60% Sub30% Ship10% Helo
Data Fusion Sys #2:
UnkSubShipAir
There is no unambiguous mapping between these two models - information is lost, imprecise understanding.
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Goal: Shared Understanding
Independent, incompatible models create unsolvable interoperability problems. Classification Uncertainty Models:
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Future NCW Systems: Sensor and Context Driven
Global Information Grid
ApplicationsAgents
AutonomousSystems Sensing
Sensor Driven
FIOP Service
OperationalContext Service
Context Driven
Undersea Warfare CenterImplementation Considerations
Hierarchical Process Each echelon adds additional information Top-down
Shared understanding across the range of battlespace information New Interoperability Standards required Workload
Country, Service, System, Application, Technology, Contractor Independent Generic, Cross-Cutting and Unifying
Undersea Warfare CenterCapability Gaps
Today
N2
NCW ObjectiveCapability
Bottom-up“Negotiated”
Bottom-up“Negotiated”
NTop-down“Unified”
Top-down“Unified”
CapabilityShortfall
Global ExchangeOntology
GH4GH4
Undersea Warfare CenterNATO Reference Model
NATO Battlespace Operational Context model: Land C2 Information Exchange Data Model (LC2IEDM), or GH5 (Generic Hub version 5) Countries use it for C2 systems interface definition Draft NATO STANAG (ADat-P32). Work progressing on GH5
Provides a rational mature framework for interoperability and exploring more sophisticated automation methods.
Undersea Warfare CenterGH4: Basic Entities
Battlefield objects and types: Facility Feature Materiel Organization Person etc.
Entity-Relationship Model: [not a list of data] Key information entities, and relational meta-information
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NATO Land Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model
Basic Entities
Battlefield objects and types
Facility Feature Materiel Organisation Person
Situational Awareness
Plans, Orders, RequestsCapability
Reporting Data
Undersea Warfare CenterC4I Coalition Warfare Task
This work explored, demonstrated, and evaluated GH4 applicability to maritime coalition interoperability and system automation
GH4, via XML Schema, distributed operation context and tactical dataCORBA data server interface
Submarine combat control systemX3D browser-based visualization
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ESG
CVN
Auto-generation & Visualization of Structured Planning Information
Dr. Don Brutzman, MOVES, NPS
Undersea Warfare CenterMultiple Transformation Enabler
New Capabilities for the Warfighter - Applications, Intelligent Agents, and Autonomous
Systems with Operational and Tactical Awareness Cost Reduction
System Engineering Maintenance
Interoperable based on top-down design Operational Context Information Architecture
Industry Best Practices Approach Start with Coalition Success
Undersea Warfare CenterFuture Opportunities
Building on key ideas and successesSharing ideas, looking for synergy & partners:
Joint & Coalition Project formulationJoint Experimentation
Scaling up and outAppropriate to consider as a mission-oriented
enterprise solution for all DoDWorking Coalition partnerships
Technology outreach to Allies
Undersea Warfare CenterPOC:
Mr. Erik ChaumNaval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI 401.832.6915