Posted on Feb 14, 2019
The Navy wants sensor data to serve more than one purpose
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U.S. Navy leaders want the information they receive from sensors and traditional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tools to more seamlessly feed into the service’s combat systems as a way to eventually improve how the service searches for targets.
Vice Adm. Brian Brown, the commander of Naval Information Forces, said as part of a new campaign, the Navy is taking the first steps toward that goal. Brown spoke on a panel at the West 2019 trade show in San Diego about how the Navy can become more lethal and improve its readiness to fight.
“We’re trying to link the combat system side more tightly to the C4I side because it really is a single continuum for battlespace awareness to targeting,” he said.
In an interview with C4ISRNET after the panel, Brown said he is working with leaders at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command as well as at Naval Sea Systems Command to explore common data standards, interfaces and the framework for cooperation. This would include looking for ways a combat system such as the Ship Self-Defense System, used for anti-air defense, could feed into a network such as the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprises Services, or CANES, which is used for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence.
“There are several interfaces there where data can flow back and forth,” he said. “The idea is simply, as technology goes on, these two environments are getting closer and closer. We want to make it more seamless. You would want to be able to pull sensor type battlespace awareness data from the traditional combat system side into the more tradition C4I side to be able to do targeting and other things with it.”
Vice Adm. Brian Brown, the commander of Naval Information Forces, said as part of a new campaign, the Navy is taking the first steps toward that goal. Brown spoke on a panel at the West 2019 trade show in San Diego about how the Navy can become more lethal and improve its readiness to fight.
“We’re trying to link the combat system side more tightly to the C4I side because it really is a single continuum for battlespace awareness to targeting,” he said.
In an interview with C4ISRNET after the panel, Brown said he is working with leaders at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command as well as at Naval Sea Systems Command to explore common data standards, interfaces and the framework for cooperation. This would include looking for ways a combat system such as the Ship Self-Defense System, used for anti-air defense, could feed into a network such as the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprises Services, or CANES, which is used for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence.
“There are several interfaces there where data can flow back and forth,” he said. “The idea is simply, as technology goes on, these two environments are getting closer and closer. We want to make it more seamless. You would want to be able to pull sensor type battlespace awareness data from the traditional combat system side into the more tradition C4I side to be able to do targeting and other things with it.”
The Navy wants sensor data to serve more than one purpose
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This is a joint and integrated challenge and service labs are not always joint in their orientation. You have questions of data management which include avoiding release of Sensitive data lower level systems. There are issues of update rates and data aging issues of sensor performance in varying conditions and developing systems that can recommend which sensors are best for the current environment. Issues of data accuracy. Peripheral issues such as funding also play a role. The higher echelon agencies or commands might be block funded while the labs are Industrially funded. Block funding means the employees are all funded each year the industrially funded must find their own project funding sources. That can be difficult because of things like "swim lanes". Certain labs might have a sensors group, a communications group, a command and control group, and a ISR group but the problems are integrated. You cannot have command and control without communications and sensors the issues are too deeply interrelated yet when each group must find their own funding then the solution might suffer because lack of communication brought on by competition to make sure your group is funded.
As you address these problems then you have the Joint issues. Again with multiple sources of information possibly about the same AOI how are you going to integrate that information in a timely manner. In many cases the intelligence community wants to analyze the information to determine for instance what are the strategic implications of certain data but the tactical community might be threatened by the target. How do you control the distribution of the data at what point do you pass it to the other communitites or what do you pass or how do you resolve data conflict among the various sensors and assessments. How do you manage the data flow. Certain elements might be developing their own picture and may not have the time to share it? In some cases a unit could benefit from cetain information and another source not know or realize the data the are collecting would be useful to the other service unit.These are only a few of the issues that either need to be addressed in order to achieve the admiral's desired outcome
As you address these problems then you have the Joint issues. Again with multiple sources of information possibly about the same AOI how are you going to integrate that information in a timely manner. In many cases the intelligence community wants to analyze the information to determine for instance what are the strategic implications of certain data but the tactical community might be threatened by the target. How do you control the distribution of the data at what point do you pass it to the other communitites or what do you pass or how do you resolve data conflict among the various sensors and assessments. How do you manage the data flow. Certain elements might be developing their own picture and may not have the time to share it? In some cases a unit could benefit from cetain information and another source not know or realize the data the are collecting would be useful to the other service unit.These are only a few of the issues that either need to be addressed in order to achieve the admiral's desired outcome
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