The provision of secure, reliable, high bandwidth communication linksīetween a deployed headquarters and support facilities outside the The static Marine Expeditionary Force Command Center (MCC), basedĪt Camp Pendleton in California and completed in June 2002, is oneĮxample of how this operates in practice.
Terms of its size, its access to expertise and to the informationĪvailable, while at the same time it reduces the size of the command The communications that it provides give the battlefieldĬommander a secure, virtual staff that is functionally unlimited in The problems of information overload for the commander caused byĭigitisation are also being alleviated by digitisation via the concept There isĪ fundamental contradiction between both military trends. Information-driven situational awareness and superior planning. The same time there is a clamour for the transformation of Cold WarĪrmies into small, agile, distributed units that rely on In particular real-time information, and indeed it is still growing. There has been a significant growth in the volume of information, Information in order to make decisive, immediate and intelligentĭecisions in a dynamic tactical environment. Technology solutions must be able to harness this overwhelming amount of To be successful, the users of information Imagery of one small clement of an operation-much to the detriment of Military figures in Britain and in the United States, suggests thatĬommanders in Afghanistan became unduly interested in real-time drone Remain inside the enemy's decision cycle, information must beĭelivered in a distilled form. To avoid overloading the staff, and for the command team to Normally consists of groups of vehicles distributed across theīattlefield, but in the future may be located outside the theatre of Its associated units hut also within the command post itself. Video images can be transported, not only between the command post and The key enabler in all this is the ability of communication systemĭesigners to widen the pipe through which voice, data and real time The size of the forward deployed command staff, and freeing theĬommander from the physical constraints of the command post. Improving the commander's situational understanding, while reducing Increasing the speed and quality of command decisions, radically Information management can be broken down into four key objectives: Irrespective of the nationality of the military involved,
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