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Designing for the
Connected Battlespace
F
or as long as there has been warfare,
military field commanders
have tried to extend their range
of vision, gather and interpret
critical intelligence, and gain strategic
and tactical advantages through realtime,
uncompromised communications.
The modern (and future) battlespace
is a complex, interconnected, multivariable,
real-time labyrinth of data acquisition,
interpretation, digestion, and
distribution in spectrum-based operations
- all aimed at instant decisionmaking
for the soldier.
Military systems directed at sensing
and information processing for exploitation
by tactical commanders must
confront significant bandwidth and
size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints.
Bandwidth is a particularly
consternating battlefield problem;
varied platforms require
inter operability
and backward compatibility between
new and legacy platforms, between
services and agencies, and networked in
real-time between the space layer, the
aerial layers, the ground layer, and even
to the sub-surface layer.
Soldier as a System
For example, at the ground layer, the
'Soldier as a System,' as defined by the
U.S. Army, is the idea of networking soldiers
and integrating network nodes not
typically accessed by soldiers. Variables
on the battlefield such as incoming fire,
possible points of attack, topography,
size, location, and
lethality of an enemy, air and surface
fires alternatives, all conspire to demand
new information and facilitate
real-time decisions. Some decisions,
such as which weapons to use and
where to use them to counter the
threat, are literally life or death.
This challenge requires an electronic
architecture connecting sensor systems
designed to collect, detect, process, and
respond to radiation signatures spread
over a wide area of the electromagnetic
spectrum. On-platform (or on-soldier)
sensors include hyperspectral imagers,
laser warning sensors and spectral tagging,
tracking, surveillance sensors,
helmet-mounted ultra-low-light sensors,
weapon sights, wearable computers,
and handheld devices
with interactive digital maps.
When presented in an actionable
format, this data allows
new intelligence
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