Reducing the Logistics Burden for the Army After Next Doing More with Less (1999) / Chapter Skim
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F Situational Awareness
F Situational Awareness
Pages 197-208
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Widespread, diverse sensor arrays, communications links, encryption, and computers will work together to provide relevant intelligence data for near-perfect and near real-time SA to the AAN force commander. SA and information dominance will be fundamental to the success of the AAN battle force.
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To reduce the communication demands of increasingly capable sensors, local intelligence will be incorporated at the sensor to preprocess the data and reduce bandwidth requirements for transmission. A single multispectral (5 bands)
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; local networking links that can transfer data from multiple focal planes to a central processor for data fusion; and advanced signal processing that can extract useful intonation from the mass of data. Advances in complex semiconductors and processing will be necessary to fabricate these devices.
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Even though the fusion of data sets from different sources has been under investigation for more than 20 years in the Beta Test Beta program and other data fusion programs for intelligence and sensor data, accelerating advances in sensor technology require new insights into data fusion for the optimal extraction of information. Distributed Threat Detection Chemical and biological agents are growing threats, particularly for the asymmetric confrontations anticipated for the AAN.
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Although commercial developers will provide most of the hardware tools, the Army will have to ensure stable, secure, user-friendly, timely information and options analysis for a battle force on the move. Computer technologies are closely related to communications, as well as to data acquisition and sensors, ground positioning, battlefield management, guidance control, and supply.
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The Army cannot count on the commercial sector, however, to provide reliable enough hardware to meet military requirements for ruggedness, bulk, and display resolution. The commercial goal of replacing disk drives with solid-state memories with sufficient capacity for limited tasks might improve ruggedness, but the commercial sector will only address military concerns coincidentally.
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In September 1997, Moore pointed out that the physical limits of silicon technology would put a limit on the ability of the semiconductor industry to continue the Moore's Law trend in manufacturing improvements. Moore also said that power consumption and the resulting heat will be an enormous challenge long before the physical limit on transistor size is reached (Kanellos, 1997~.
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, when coupled with asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) communications links and a centralized key management system, will go a long way toward solving the security problems that will be encountered in the AAN time frame.
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In tactical war games and field problems, opposing forces are usually prohibited from jamming. Eventually, this policy could prove to be disastrous, especially to an AAN battle force that will be entirely dependent on massive data transfer.
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This is a complex problem that will be very difficult to solve. Neither a detailed analysis of the bandwidth requirements associated with an AAN battle force nor a mapping of bandwidth requirements into available resources was discussed with the committee, which therefore assumed that the Army is not yet working on battle force communications issues.
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The Army will have to guard against these twin dangers as technology develops into the AAN time frame. Existing Programs The Army has significant research focus under the battlefield communications strategic research objective (SRO)
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Piscataway, New Jersey: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association)
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