Posted on 07/01/2010 9:32:57 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
By the middle of this decade, a new command and control system will provide U.S. Army air defense forces with an extended view of the airspace over a battlefield. The capability will integrate the service’s sensors and weapons into a single network, allowing each platform to perform to its maximum abilities while minimizing operational weaknesses. Commanders will be able to access data quickly from any sensor on the network and order any weapon to engage a target.
The Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) program will connect Army forces with a network-centric architecture for air defense platforms. This will dramatically expand the warfighters’ ability to counter threats such as ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial platforms, explains Col. Harry Cohen, USA (Ret.), strategic planner and adviser to the Air Defense Artillery Commandant at the Fires Center of Excellence, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He notes that the system will allow the Army to integrate all of its air and missile defense sensor and weapons platforms into a single data-sharing architecture. This architecture will permit commanders to scale or tailor their force packages best to meet a threat and to fit an operational situation.
Cohen explains that tailoring force packages rapidly and flexibly using available units and resources provides commanders and their staffs with greater agility to defend the assets they are assigned. Additionally, the IBCS will allow officers to manage operations from tactical to strategic levels of warfighting by permitting them to control any sensor or weapon on the network directly. The system also will help regain commanders’ decision space in a complex, highly ambiguous environment, where acquiring erroneous information or experiencing delays can diminish the amount of time needed to process and act, and this could have disastrous consequences.
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YOu rock!
Don’t ever stop..!!
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Thank you!
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Hate to see what happens when this thing gets the dreaded BSOD...
back to coverage circles and grease pencils I guess...
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