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Nowadays, security and safety are big concerns in this modern and cyberwar era. Many countries invest some safety infrastructure to ensure their inhabitants for keeping their lives safely. Indonesia is the country with many problems because of urbanization and other challenges. This problem should be solved with smart city solution and it must be able to face the challenge of ensuring the safety and improving the quality of life regarding network centric warfare era. This problem also should be tackled with CCTV analytics with the ability to implement an automatic weapon detection system. It also can provide the early detection of potentially violent situations that is of paramount importance for citizens security. This paper is using deep Learning techniques based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) can be trained to detect this type of object with YOLOv4 model and it proposes to implement CCTV analytics as a platform to process real-time data for monitoring weapon detection into knowledge displayed in a dashboard with accuracy 0.89, precision 0.82, recall 0.96 dan F1 Score 0.90 result on weapon detection with a real time speed of processing with NVIDIA 2080 Ti around of 35 FPS. It will send an early warning notification if the system detects the weapon detection such as a knife, gun etc.

Airborne tactical networks (ATNs) is driving the growing development of network-centric warfare by maintaining coverage and providing reach-back to military units. However, the key function of ATNs is impeded by the network ossification that is deep-rooted in the tightly coupled, vertically integrated architecture of traditional ATNs. Network virtualization (NV) can provide a more flexible and scalable ATN architecture as a solution, breaking the tight coupling between applications and network infrastructure. One important aspect of NV is virtual network embedding (VNE), which instantiates multiple virtual networks on a shared substrate network. However, existing efforts are not necessarily optimal for the virtualization of ATNs due to the absence of QoS-compliant capacity for the complex interference in air-combat field. To tackle this difficulty, a reliable interference-aware VNE algorithm, termed VNE-RIA, is proposed to provide reliable guarantee in the coordinated node and link mapping for various airborne tactical virtual networks (ATVNs). In the node mapping, the VNE-RIA adopts a novel node ranking approach to rank all substrate and virtual nodes, considering the complex interference including link interference, environmental noise and malicious attacks. In the link mapping, an improved anypath link mapping approach, based on the anypath routing scheme, is adopted to improve the reliability and efficiency of mapping virtual links by exploiting the unique features of wireless channels and the influence of different transmission rates. Numerical simulation results reveal that VNE-RIA algorithm outperforms typical and latest heuristic wireless VNE algorithms under the complex electromagnetic interference of ATNs.

The period after the end of the Cold War and the reorganization of the world order brought new challenges to modern military organizations. Total technological progress and completely new threats and opponents in the form of nonlinearity have influenced modern warfare to change its shape and form to such an extent that most theorists believe that we are witnessing revolutionary changes in the character of war. The development of information technology particularly influences the development of new concepts of the use of the armed forces, with the most technologically advanced countries naturally leading the way. The development of information technology has a huge impact on the modernization and transformation of the armed forces, primarily in the West. In order to achieve a qualitatively new, higher level of precision and higher speed in conducting military operations, in the early 1990s, many segments of the US armed forces were specially equipped with modern technology, which is based on information networks. The revolution in military affairs and its implementation in the concept of network-centric warfare have become new military strategic models for the US armed forces, along with the process of redefining security policy, in line with the new situation. Network-centric warfare has set new standards in warfare, relying on information superiority. In this paper, the relation of military strategy and its principles to network-centric warfare is considered.

In this paper, we address the distributed data fusion problem considering a real scenario with multiple sensor sites geographically scattered around a bay. The advance of IoT, with more and more objects being connected, delivering and sharing huge amount of data, represents a big challenge. A timely fusion, using data obtained from different sources, like IoT and others, to provide efficient, reliable and accurate information to the decision makers is a requirement of modern data fusion systems. The paper presents a conceptual approach for a distributed data fusion system, applied in a maritime environment, where the common operational picture is obtained through a tactical datalink network. The concept and implementation of the proposed system follows the paradigm of Network Centric Warfare, which is an information age theory of warfare.

This work is about how the United States military has become dependent on networked technology. As arguably the largest contributor to national security, it has become so dependent that its chief doctrine integrates networked technology into nearly every specialty, with particularly intense focus on Network Centric Warfare. As the military’s old guard is replaced by the highly technical Millenial Generation, there is cause to pause when assuming this techno-acuity brings nothing but advantage and success. Vulnerabilities stemming from such extensive dependence offer opportunities for exploitation that have not gone unnoticed. The first step to moving forward from this point is to fully understand the extent to which the military has become dependent on computer networks. It might be the Millenials’ war today, but it would be quite unwise for the United States military to think about it and fight it in a purely Millenial way.

Tactical ad hoc networks are an essential part of the military doctrine Network Centric Warfare (NCW). Automatically established networks of small mobile computers and devices provide soldiers with information necessary to accomplish their mission. Hostile forces may exploit software vulnerabilities in order to obstruct military missions or eavesdrop mission-specific information. A vulnerability scanner and management system is a pro-active countermeasure to prevent the exploitation of known software vulnerabilities. We propose the usage of Mobile Agents for the mitigation of single very critical vulnerabilities because tactical ad hoc networks may not have permanently existing paths to a network management centre. In our concept, the Mobile Agents autonomously determine the path for visiting a given list of nodes based on the connectivity in the ad hoc network. The speed of applying a vulnerability mitigation to all nodes of the network is an important factor for the network security. Therefore, we propose different replication strategies for Mobile Agents. By these different strategies it is possible to adjust speed and network overhead of applying a vulnerability mitigation in the network.

With the development of modern military warfare towards Network Centric Warfare (NCW), small mobile computers or devices that form tactical ad-hoc networks play an important role. These automatically established networks provide soldiers with information necessary to accomplish their mission. It has to be assumed that hostile forces manage to install malware on a mobile device by exploiting software vulnerabilities in order to spy out mission-specific information. Therefore, a vulnerability management in combination with a patch management is a pro-active countermeasure to improve network security. Most of the vulnerability and patch management systems use a Client-Server architecture. In this paper, we discuss the usage of Mobile Agents for this task. Through this approach, it is possible to consider the properties of military ad-hoc networks such as non-permanently existing end-to-end paths.

Theory on the use of information technology in military operations assumes that bringing together units in an information network helps units to work together. Decentralized command systems such as mission command have been proposed for these networks, so that units can adapt to changes in their turbulent working environments. Others have proposed centralized command systems that permit higher organizational levels to closely direct military operations. This article uses Perrow’s (1984, 1999) Normal Accidents Theory to propose that increasing interdependencies between units in information networks places incompatible demands on the design of networked military operations. It is concluded that networked military operations require decentralized command approaches, but only under the condition that interdependencies between modules of networked units are weak rather than tight. This precondition is essential for retaining control over networked military operations.

Simulation of a system-of-systems (SoS) model, which consists of a combat model and a network model, has been used to analyze the performance of network-centric warfare in detail. However, finding the combat model parameters satisfying the required combat power using simulation can take a long time for two reasons: (1) the prolonged execution time per simulation run and (2) the enormous number of simulation runs. This paper proposes a simulation-based optimization method for the SoS-based simulation model to overcome these problems. The method consists of two processes: (1) the transformation of the SoS-based model into an integrated model using the neural network to reduce the execution time and (2) the optimization of the integrated model using the genetic algorithm with ranking and selection to decrease the number of simulation runs. The experimental result reveals that the proposed method significantly reduced the time for finding the optimal combat parameters with an acceptable level of accuracy.

The requirement for enabling network centric warfare through the accommodation of network-enabled capabilities, promoted the use of service oriented architectures (SOA) within military networks. The initial response of the academic and industrial communities was to utilize standard enterprise SOA. The developed solutions were well adjusted to the strategic domain, where node and network constraints were minimal. Yet, experience gained from the battlefields of the last decade, has proven that the tactical domain imposes a set of unique constraints, that render such solutions inefficient for the tactical edge.

Modeling large military targets is a challenge as they can be complex systems encompassing myriad combinations of human, technological, and social elements that interact, leading to complex behaviors. Moreover, such targets have multiple components and structures, extending across multiple spatial and temporal scales, and are in a state of change, either in response to events in the environment or changes within the system. Complex adaptive system (CAS) theory can help in capturing the dynamism, interactions, and more importantly various emergent behaviors, displayed by the targets. However, a key stumbling block is incorporating information from various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) sources, while dealing with the inherent uncertainty, incompleteness and time criticality of real world information. To overcome these challenges, we present a probabilistic reasoning network based framework called complex adaptive Bayesian Knowledge Base (caBKB). caBKB is a rigorous, overarching and axiomatic framework that models two key processes, namely information aggregation and information composition. While information aggregation deals with the union, merger and concatenation of information and takes into account issues such as source reliability and information inconsistencies, information composition focuses on combining information components where such components may have well defined operations. Since caBKBs can explicitly model the relationships between information pieces at various scales, it provides unique capabilities such as the ability to de-aggregate and de-compose information for detailed analysis. Using a scenario from the Network Centric Operations (NCO) domain, we will describe how our framework can be used for modeling targets with a focus on methodologies for quantifying NCO performance metrics.

In network centric warfare, battlefield information sharing can provide more accurate and timely battlefield situation for combat decision making. This paper analyzes the influence of different levels of battlefield information sharing on combat decision making. Bayesian criterion is used to quantify the state change of decision-making conditions on battlefield situation information, and the results are expressed in the form of information entropy. This method can be used to evaluate the influence of battlefield information sharing on combat decision making conditions.

Network centric warfare is the main development trend of informatization warfare in the future, while the present of network centric warfare has raised higher requirements for the future equipment support. In this paper, the new thoughts and structure of network centric warfare are put forward by comparing network centric warfare with traditional warfare. And the command flow of equipment support is analyzed specifically combined with the instantiation. The establishment of the equipment support model can promote the development of network centric warfare and has guiding significance and applied value for the establishment of the future equipment support model.

Recent technological advancement has a profound effect on the ways that the war is being conducted and fought. The advanced communications, information, computing and sensor technologies enable the combat units to be integrated in the battlefield management network. By exchanging and sharing real-time battlefield information that is critical for the successful outcome of military engagement, the legacy forces are becoming much more effective and lethal than ever before, The bigger picture of such phenomena can be summarized as the concept of Network Centric Warfare(NCW). The main purpose of this study is to compare the outcome of regional combat engagement between the legacy forces and the future combat systems(FCS). The FCS capitalizes on the advanced technologies within the frame of NCW. This study uses the modeling and simulation methodology to assess the effectiveness of two different combat forces. The simulation results show that the FCS is more effective, hence vindicating the superiority of technologically advanced combat units.Key Words : Future Combat System(미래 전투 체계), Modeling and Simulation(모델링&시뮬레이션), NCW(네트워크 중심전), Combat Effectiveness(전투 효과)

In NCW(Network Centric Warfare) environment, mobile nodes communicate through wireless link. But wireless link provides limited networking performance due to signal interferences or mobility of nodes. So it is quite challenge to acquire enough networking resources and use the resources efficiently. In this paper, we have proposed a P2P based tactical information sharing system which provides satisfactory visual information playout for mobile nodes(i.e., military personnel, vehicle,..) in NCW environment. Our proposed system consists of two components. One is caching-enabled switch which stores tactical information segments at its internal storage and then transports them to mobile nodes when require. Another is centralized scheduling algorithm which exploits networking resources more efficiently. To validate performance of proposed system, we performed series of experiments in wireless network testbed. Results show improved performance in terms of segment-missing ratio, networking resources usage, sharing time, and number of simultaneous playout mobile nodes with acceptable playout continuity(i.e., over 95%).Key Words : Peer-to-peer(피어-투-피어), Centralized Scheduling(중앙형 스케쥴링), Mobile Node(모바일 노드), Network Centric Warfare(네트워크 중심전), Caching-enabled Switch(캐싱 지원 스위치)

In this study, I analyzed the increased threat of cyber warfare and the threat of reality about what is happening around the currently. And to prepare for it, I proposed the fact how main developed countries deal with cyber warfare. Also, I presented North Korea`s cyber warfare threat which is equipped with world`s top 3 cyber warfare performance and the way how their strategy influence to South Korea`s national security. Moreever, I studied the existing North Korea`s cyber warfare threat and the way how, how South Korea deal with it and prepare to against expected threat of cyber warfare in future.

Future aspects of the has turned into a network centric warfare(NCW). Organically combined wired and wireless networks in a variety of cross-of-the-art combat power factor utilization of information and communication technology is a key element of NCW implementation. At used various information in the NCW must be the confidentiality and integrity excellent then quick situation assessment through reliability the real-time processing, which is the core of winning the war. In this paper, NCW is one of the key technologies of the implementation of 128-bit output stream cipher algorithm is proposed. AES-based stream cipher developed by applying modified OFB mode the confidentiality and integrity as well as hardware implementation to the security and real-time processing is superior.

As a Network Centric Warfare (NCW) case applied in Air & Missile Defense domain, Networked Air & Missile Defense (NAMD) represents the superior development of the Air & Missile Defense warfare in future. Based on the ideology of Integrated Fire Control, architecture and characteristics of NAMD are depicted, and simulation models based on above depictions are designed. Finally, operational capabilities of NAMD are generally evaluated, and the rationalities of decision-making script and model framework are validated by concentrating on results of an operational scenario simulation.

A broad range of weapons systems are in service in forces all over the world. Nowadays, state-of-the-art weapons systems are deployed beside legacy high-value systems that have been used for decades, and will continue to be used for some time. Modern weapons systems can contain hundreds of thousands of chips; each of these chips can be of a sophisticated design, containing billions of transistors, making highly complex systems-of-systems. Elderly weapons systems' service lives are often extended or their performance enhanced due to reduced budget funds or delays in new procurement. Therefore, aged and state-of-the art systems have to function together, not only from a communications prospective, but also from a complete systems integration point of view. Modern Network Centric Warfare scenarios rely upon all of these systems being well integrated and be able to interoperate. This spans an incredibly complex range of sensors, communications systems, and weapons of various ages, opening up countless attack vectors and presenting severe challenges to weapons systems security. The paper analyses the parties involved in today's battlespace, examines the impact of the weapons systems' ages on IT security, and surveys the critical factors for cyber security. Numerous highly dangerous factors are identified and essential necessities and countermeasures are recommended.

In this paper, we revise the JDL data fusion model to have an ability of distributed data fusion(DDF). Data fusion is a function that produces valuable information using data from multiple sources. After the network centric warfare concept was introduced, the data fusion was required to be expanded to DDF. We identify the data transfer and control between nodes is the core function of DDF. The previous data fusion models can not be used for DDF because they don`t include that function. Therefore, we revise the previous JDL data fusion model by adding the core function of DDF and propose this new model as a model for DDF. We show that our model is adequate and useful for DDF by using several examples.

In the M&S filed, The Battle Lab is available for acquisition, design, development tool, validation test, and training in the weapon system of development process. Recently, the Battle Lab in the military of Korea is still in an early stage, in spite of importance of battle lab construction. In the environment of network centric warfare, a practical use of the M&S which is connecting live, virtual and constructive model can be applied to all field of System Engineering process. It is necessary thar the Battle Lab is not restricted by time and space, and is possible for the technical implementation. In this paper, to guarantee the interoperability of live and virtual simulation, virtual simulators connect live simulators by using the tactical data link. To guarantee the interoperability of virtual and constructive simulation, both virtual simulators and constructive simulators use the RTI which is the standard tool of M&S. We propose the System that constructed the Air Defence Battle Lab. In case of the approach of target tracks, The Air Defence Battle Lab is the system for the engagement based on a command of an upper system in the engagement weapon system. Constructive simulators which are target track, missile, radar, and launcher simulator connect virtual simulators which are MCRC, battalion, and fire control center simulators using the RPR-FOM 1.0 that is a kind of RTI FOM. The interoperability of virtual simulators and live simulators can be guaranteed by the connection of the tactical data links which are Link-11B and ATDL-1.

In Network Centric Warfare (NCW) environment, having a tactical communication network which provides high data exchange rate is very important. In the process, Korean Army developed Mobile Subscriber Access Point (MSAP) which is based on the commercial Wireless BroadBand (Wibro). MSAP is a vehicle attached base station which provide high data exchange communication environment in a given area. Thus MSAP can provide high data exchange rate and mobility to accomplish missions in the battlefield more effectively. In this paper, we propose an operational strategy of using MSAP to provide tactical communication network in the battlefield. The idea is to find the optimal location point of the MSAP in the operational area where all the troops in the operational area can be supported by the MSAP with a minimum number of MSAP. Since the current Korean Army's basic idea of using MSAP is just distribute this MSAP to each troop, so by applying our strategy we can save MSAP devices for more flexible operation. We will show our strategy's benefits through the mathematical model and the algorithm of the presented problem.

Modem warfares have changed from PCW (platform Centric Warfare) to NCW (Network Centric Warfare). Therefore, it is more important to operate and manage the network. This paper proposed a node management scheme in military wireless networks. In military wireless networks, nodes can join and leave the networks easily. It causes a degradation of network capacity. This paper figured out a problem caused by node which is leaving the network. This paper proposed a RSSI based method of estimating and detecting the leaving nodes in the networks. Finally, an experimental result was demonstrated to show the efficiency of the proposed method.

During the Cold War, the heavily armed US forces in Korea were deployed along the demilitarized zone, mainly to defend South Korea and maintain deterrence on the Peninsula. The US forces in Japan on the other hand were charged with broader missions and roles, namely, for regional security. In accordance with the goals of the alliance transformation, the US forces are undertaking historic changes for reconfiguring their units to be ready for the rapid employment of globally networked forces. Should the two US forces in Japan and Korea, respectively, be transformed into regionally mobile units in the years to come, the two alliances are likely to be pressured to assume increasingly similar roles and missions. This emerging requirement calls on the three allies to adopt a more integrated approach to best utilize their given resources. Among the many items of cooperation agreed upon between the USA and Japan are some areas to which Korea can make a meaningful contribution and benefit from its participation. Those items, however, vary in terms of feasibility, difficulty, sensitivity, and importance. They can be divided into three categories that identify preconditions for moving on to a higher phase. The two neighbors and the USA are faced with growing regional security challenges in the age of spreading terrorism and proliferation. The changing regional environment demands restructuring of the alliance relations of the three, meaning that the trilateral security cooperation should be taken seriously again.

Radar emitter classification is a special application of data clustering for classifying unknown radar emitters in airborne electronic support system. In this paper, a novel online multisensor data fusion framework is proposed for radar emitter classification under the background of network centric warfare. The framework is composed of local processing and multisensor fusion processing, from which the rough and precise classification results are obtained, respectively. What is more, the proposed algorithm does not need prior knowledge and training process; it can dynamically update the number of the clusters and the cluster centers when new pulses arrive. At last, the experimental results show that the proposed framework is an efficacious way to solve radar emitter classification problem in networked warfare.

The paradigm of war is basically changed by development of information and communication technologies. One of the paradigms in future war is NCW(Network-Centric Warfare) that is purposed of achievement in information-superiority. In this future war, the level of menace and fragility is rapidly increased in information-security according to the massive information and complex system. Therefore the Korean army is developing the information-security technologies for NCW. But, until now patent analysis concerning NCW has not performed. In this paper, we suggest a meaningful data for efficient R&D through patent analysis of information-security technologies on NCW.

Network centric warfare has been serving the defence mechanism since last few decades. Contemporary network oriented solutions exhibit vertical silos which lack in inefficient connected approach. Internet of Things holds the key potential to interconnect the battlefield with the digital world in ways that promise to fundamentally change military operations. This study proposes a novel architectural framework-IoTNetWar, juxtaposing Internet of Things and Network Centric Warfare together. IoTNetWar presents the integrity between weapons, military personnel, and overall warfare on the conjugation of sensors, gateways, internet, and cloud based services. Few research challenges have also been identified so that researcher may get involved to solve the related issues.

This paper examines network-centric warfare (NCW) penetration within the U.S. Army. NCW was intended to be an emerging theory of war for the information age. It was supposed to provide a conceptual framework that would prevent new technology enabled approaches to warfare from being constrained by outmoded ideas. A thematic analysis of the literature was performed using NVivo 10, a computer assisted qualitative data analysis software, to assess NCW adoption within the U.S. Army. The data did not support the idea that it has been adopted. A lack of adoption can result in limitations on the ability of today's soldiers to take advantage of the enhanced approaches to warfare offered by the theory. U.S. Army leaders should adopt NCW so that they have a theoretical framework for the conduct of military operations in an information rich environment.

The objective of the proposed research is to examine fundamental structural bounds on the disturbance rejection and human-swarm interaction properties of a network of diffusively interacting dynamic agents. These bounds are then employed to adaptively change or re-parameterize the network geometry in order to improve the disturbance resilience of the network while facilitating its manageability by human operator(s). The corresponding algorithms are examined in the context of centralized procedures where the network structure and its parameters are designed viasuitable optimization algorithms, or analyzed via the probabilistic method, as well as a game theoretic approach where each agent or a subset of agents, based on the available local information, update the network structure and parameters in order to improve the overall disturbance rejection properties of the network and its effectiveness for being managed by human operator(s). In this venue, we address a number of issues at the core of networked multiagent networks with the aim of highlighting the intricate relationship between network structure and agent dynamics, on one hand,and network disturbance rejection properties and external manageability, on the other.

The field of Network Centric Warfare seeks to use information technology in order to gain competitive advantage over the enemies during war. An essential part of network centric warfare deals with the firing of highly destructive weapons. It includes the determination of exact direction of firing the weapon so as to successfully destroy the target for a given unguided shell. This can be done using different trajectory models. The major challenge is that this decision be quick in the time critical scenario of war and this urges the use of previous experience using data mining.

To solve the problem of network centric warfare (NCW), a service-oriented cooperation for the new military organization called cloud cooperation is proposed. After basically describing military organization cooperation, some definition surrounding cloud cooperation are put forward, and the connection between cloud cooperation and NCW is expatiated. The organization and architecture of cloud cooperation is also built, and the key technologies on studying cloud cooperation are discussed, including architecture, standard, and criterion of cloud cooperation, cloud compute, super dimension complex, cloud fusion, cloud attack and comprehensive management technology. This paper will provide theoretical support for efficiently cooperation in future military organization.

The advance of information and communication technology nowadays offers worldwide broadband communication with high data rates. Motivated by the benefits of real-time distributed information shared between units as well as different levels of command for the purpose of fast and reliable decision-making, numerous nations have been working hard over the past years to implement Network Centric Warfare (NCW). By that, information superiority can be gained and translated into command superiority and finally into force superiority. Being strongly dependent on fast and reliable communication, electrical power outages or disruptions of network nodes like SatCom systems respectively links can have a severe impact on information gathering and in turn on the decision making process and the capacity of forces to act. As a consequence, questions arise about the robustness of the NCW doctrine. The ability of power projection is strongly hampered by anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities. In order to successfully conduct military operations against technologically advanced opponents, forces must address A2/AD as an important element of today's battle-field, comprehend the associated operational implications, and eliminate any imbalances between military objectives and the means by which to achieve them. Following these considerations, this paper - on a technical level - analyses capabilities and weaknesses of NCW with regard to modern theatres. Based on that, recommendations in order to strengthen the performance and reliability for the further development of NCW are given.

With the development of information technology and the large-scale application of information technology in military domain, targets on the battlefield are melded together with the information flow and dependent on information. This paper investigates the existing targeting method and analyses the target's characteristics in the Network Centric Warfare. Then an approach to targeting method based on battle damage assessment of system is proposed. The key component of this targeting method is its ability to predict battle damage based on social network analysis, and to decide the optimal strategy based on battle damage prediction. The accuracy and effectiveness of this targeting method is demonstrated with a case study on how the targeting method supports targeting decision-making.

Since its emergence in 1998, the concept of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) has become a central driver behind America's military transformation and seems to offer the possibility of true integration between multinational military formations. Even though NCW, or variations on its themes, has been adopted by many armed services, it is a concept in operational and doctrinal development. It is shaping not only how militaries operate, but, just as importantly, what they are operating with, and potentially altering the strategic landscape. This paper examines how the current military dominance of the US over every other state means that only it has the capacity to sustain military activity on a global scale and that other states participating in US-led coalitions must be prepared to work in an interoperable fashion. It explores the application of computer networks to military operations in conjunction with the need to secure a network's information and to assure that it accurately represents situational reality....

Since its emergence in 1998, the concept of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) has become a central driver behind America's military transformation and seems to offer the possibility of true integration between multinational military formations. Even though NCW, or variations on its themes, has been adopted by many armed services, it is a concept in operational and doctrinal development. It is shaping not only how militaries operate, but, just as importantly, what they are operating with, and potentially altering the strategic landscape. This paper examines how the current military dominance of the US over every other state means that only it has the capacity to sustain military activity on a global scale and that other states participating in US-led coalitions must be prepared to work in an interoperable fashion. It explores the application of computer networks to military operations in conjunction with the need to secure a network's information and to assure that it accurately represents situational reality....

Since its emergence in 1998, the concept of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) has become a central driver behind America's military transformation and seems to offer the possibility of true integration between multinational military formations. Even though NCW, or variations on its themes, has been adopted by many armed services, it is a concept in operational and doctrinal development. It is shaping not only how militaries operate, but, just as importantly, what they are operating with, and potentially altering the strategic landscape. This paper examines how the current military dominance of the US over every other state means that only it has the capacity to sustain military activity on a global scale and that other states participating in US-led coalitions must be prepared to work in an interoperable fashion. It explores the application of computer networks to military operations in conjunction with the need to secure a network's information and to assure that it accurately represents situational reality....

Since its emergence in 1998, the concept of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) has become a central driver behind America's military transformation and seems to offer the possibility of true integration between multinational military formations. Even though NCW, or variations on its themes, has been adopted by many armed services, it is a concept in operational and doctrinal development. It is shaping not only how militaries operate, but, just as importantly, what they are operating with, and potentially altering the strategic landscape. This paper examines how the current military dominance of the US over every other state means that only it has the capacity to sustain military activity on a global scale and that other states participating in US-led coalitions must be prepared to work in an interoperable fashion. It explores the application of computer networks to military operations in conjunction with the need to secure a network's information and to assure that it accurately represents situational reality....

The United States military is in the midst of a major transformation effort, largely conceived around weapons systems procurement. This process of transformation through acquisition will not produce fully operational capabilities for another 15–20 years. But will the capability sets that these weapons represent enable, or will they constrain, the policy options of future national decision-makers? Although national security policy should drive the development of future military capabilities, that is seldom the case, as these problems show. The problem arises largely from three challenges to transformation: the difference in planning horizons between national security and weapons systems or policy lag; problems with the role of the armed forces in weapons systems decision-making; and the Department of Defense's fixation on the narrow theoretical constructs of Network Centric Warfare. These problems are illustrated here by the US Army's dominant contemporary procurement project, the Future Combat System. Ove...

There is a continuing need for increased capacity for military applications, especially in network-centric operational concepts that promote the use of information as fundamental for gaining superiority on the battlefield. As an example, the access to, and distribution of, sensor data is a major tenet of network-centric warfare and yet radio frequency (RF) links will struggle to provide the needed capacity. Free-space optical communications (FSOC) has the potential to meet these emerging military needs by offering dramatic increases in capacity. However, there are many technical challenges al multiple layers of the communications protocol stack. This article describes these challenges and discusses some mitigation approaches to provide a path to realizing this capability on the battlefield

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are considered by many as fundamental to realizing the global information grid (GIG) and the vision of network-centric warfare. Indeed, a fully realized MANET would be powerful in enabling highly mobile, highly responsive, and quickly deployable tactical forces. However, significant technical challenges remain before this realization is viable. Addressing these deficiencies is a significant task that will require the invention and adoption of new technology. The goal of this article is not to declare these capabilities impossible to achieve. Rather, it is to manage the expectation of the capabilities achievable in the foreseeable future through edification on the technical difficulties standing between current technology and the desired capabilities. This article provides an overview of the military MANET problem space, describing the ideal military MANET solution. Several deficiencies are highlighted that exist between MANET technologies and the desired capability. Identified technical issues include system-level architecture, routing (both interior and exterior), management, security, and medium access control (MAC), with an emphasis on the former two areas

This paper gives a short explanation of Network Centric Warfare, some background information and technology that makes this a reality. It also provides an example of how network centric solutions can be used to do a kill Chain and its advantages over platform centric scenarios. NCW faces a lot of challenges to System Engineers interoperability, increased complexity, fault tolerance, distributed computing are all needed to be understood to make NCW a reality. The nature of network centric makes us focus also on wireless networks and how they can be used, its advantages, protocols, and later on two frameworks implemented by Sun, Jini an Jxta. Each has its own set of protocols, procedures and ideology, and both are being used to create very reliable networks with changing topology.

NCW(network centric warfare) is an information warfare concentrating on network. A global network-centric warfare architecture with OGSA grid technology is put forward, which is a four levels system including the user level, the application level, the grid middleware layer and the resource level. In grid middleware layer, based on virtual hosting environment, a BEPL4WS grid service composition method is introduced. In addition, the NCW grid service model is built with the help of Eclipse-SDK-3.0.1 and Bpws4j.

In Network Centric Warfare, the sensor network's capability is much stronger than ever; the force can get a mass of information about battlespace in real or near-real time. How to utilize the information about battlespace effectively and transform the information superiority into knowledge superiority is a key problem for NCW research. To solve this problem, first we need to establish a suitable knowledge infrastructure. In this article, battlespace ontology is considered as the knowledge infrastructure of NCW, and we propose a battlespace ontology construction approach based on OWL, which consists of two parts: formal ontology construction approach to construct subdomain ontologies of battlespace and formal ontology integration approach to integrate subdomain ontologies of battlespace. Then a concrete application of the approach to an air combat battlespace is given. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 20: 1219–1231, 2005.

Military operations today more than ever are carried out by large coalitions, usually distributed between several organisations and often separated by substantial temporal and spatial scales. To facilitate such military operations, network‐centric warfare is often cited as the panacea of command and control, possessing the characteristics of elevated speed of command, high levels of self‐synchronisation and shared situational awareness. A nation's ability to respond to infectious diseases resulting from an act of bioterrorism or naturally occurring pathogens depends on a framework that supports operations by a large number of distributed organisations facing inherent temporal and spatial challenges. The effects of infectious diseases, whether intentionally inflicted or naturally occurring, can threaten a nation's security. Syndromic surveillance is a detection methodology that encompasses systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and application of real‐time indicators for disease and outbreaks. This paper introduces the NCW paradigm and highlights the inherent characteristics that would facilitate syndromic surveillance in support of an expedient public health response in the event of a bioterrorist attack.

The electronics industry provides components and capabilities that are critical to modern defence requirements. It is anticipated that the effectiveness of both weapons systems and the command and control network that supports military operations will become increasingly dependent upon the electronics sub‐systems they employ in the future. With the ascendancy of ‘network centric warfare’, it seems certain that defence electronics will continue to grow in importance in the future, enabling far‐reaching advances in military capability and efficiency. Yet little is known about the structure, conduct, performance and competitiveness of the UK defence electronics sector as it prepares to meet the challenges ahead. This paper reports the findings of a study commissioned in 2002 by Intellect, the UK defence electronics trade association, and supported by the Department of Trade and Industry. The UK defence electronics industry is found to be a high technology, R&D‐intensive and decreasing cost industry, which is...