C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups (2006) / Chapter Skim
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6 Communications
6 Communications
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6 Communications Effective communications are a fundamental requirement for the Navy. The establishment of FORCEnet as the enabler of the pillars of Sea Power 21 -- Sea Strike, Sea Shield, and Sea Basing -- emphasizes this requirement.
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These technologies have very low data rates but can support strategic covert, underwater-communications applications. The use of optical technologies in the form of both wired devices (e.g., a tethered buoy using optical fiber)
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COMMUNICATIONS 153 addition, the Navy can leverage technology advancements from the other Department of Defense (DOD) Services.
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, 2003, Satellite Acquisition Programs, GAO-03-825R, Washington, D.C., June 2.
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6.2 FUTURE NAVAL COMMUNICATIONS FORCEnet and the enabling Global Information Grid (GIG) architecture hold out the prospect of a transformational change in joint Service communications capabilities whereby bandwidth is no longer a constraint.
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156 C4ISR FOR FUTURE NAVAL STRIKE GROUPS The transformational infrastructure for the GIG includes three physical-layer components: 1. A high-speed terrestrial backbone, enabled by the GIG-Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE)
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to provide transparent air-toground IP connectivity to multiple IP hosts onboard aircraft. In October 2003, the IFGR system was integrated and successfully tested onboard an E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS)
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Architecture development requires detailed study and analysis. Given the critical role envisioned for network-centric operations in future naval operations, this task should not be underresourced.
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COMMUNICATIONS 159 adversary attacking the "network-centric heart" of projected naval and joint military operations: the communications systems. This means that the issues of robustness and of communications systems monitoring, redundancy, and management, as well as provision of the performance required to ensure successful operation, need to be addressed as part of the core architecture.
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. 6.3.4 Force Establishment While Under Way To support the requirement for an adaptive and composable C4ISR architecture, ships need to be able to establish communications rapidly, while under way, with whatever platforms are necessary.
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COMMUNICATIONS 161 against an aggressive enemy, real-time spectrum management is needed to respond to jamming attacks as well as to adapt to U.S. forces' own jamming and other communications needs.
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162 C4ISR FOR FUTURE NAVAL STRIKE GROUPS 100 G Netw ork-Centric Super computers 10 G Sensors Band 1 G width Teleports Amplification 100 M JTRS, Wireless,Mobile,etc. 1 M Large Numbers of Lite-Clients (mobile antennas, small terminals)
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The NCO challenge of "posting" these data for "all" to access is not solved, but for timely operations it must be solved. See, in Chapter 7 in this report: Figure 7.2, on Distributed Common Ground Station levels of integration, for how these data should be integrated in a timely manner, and Figure 7.6 for more-general information on data rates.
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Further, National Command Authority was involved, and imagery and other products for strike were available from national sources. Information for this 1994 test was shared across the networks, including all of the information for strike planning, which was done in a collaborative manner, and video of the targets used for battle damage assessment.
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evaluating proposed IA concepts using mock-up security devices to lead to an understanding of the potential impacts, (3) determining the ability of new systems to scale to support naval operations, (4)
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Metrics for recovery include time, the numbers of people required, and the ability to recover from distributed locations. This class of testing should be done at least once every quarter year for all elements of networks that the naval forces use, including the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI)
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. The AMRFC has the objective of integrating radar, electronic warfare, and communications into a common set of apertures, signal and data processing, signal generation, and display hardware.
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NRL is doing work to demonstrate InfiniBand's effectiveness over wide areas, including the exchange of multiple 10 Gbps streams between the 2004 Super Computer Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts; and NRL in Washington, D.C. This effectiveness was also demonstrated between the Optical Fiber Conference in Anaheim, California, and NRL in Washington, D.C.
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is moving to improve wideband wireless with the IEEE 802.16 standard for base station data rates up to 280 Mbps and a range of 30 miles, and the ultrawideband (UWB) standards with rates over 400 Mbps over short ranges.
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It can scale across many platforms and hundreds of users. Early testing by the Marine Corps found UCIM to be quite effective.25 · Needed technical advances.
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The challenge is to organize and conduct phasedevelopment efforts to best cope with current and interim constraints while simultaneously migrating toward the long-term vision. Recommendation: The Navy Chief Engineer and his or her Marine Corps counterpart should establish (time-phased)
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Recommendation: The Navy Chief Engineer and his or her Marine Corps counterpart should establish a naval architecture task force to resolve the policy, budgetary, performance, and technical issues that need to be addressed to enable the development of objective and transitional communications architectures. The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
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Finding: The naval forces are severely limited in communications capacity (bandwidth) to support network-centric operations and to enable the introduction of new capabilities such as videoteleconferencing and new ISR capabilities.
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174 C4ISR FOR FUTURE NAVAL STRIKE GROUPS impact operations. For example, to conduct videoteleconferencing, an emerging important function, up to half of a ship's other communications must be halted.
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