Information Operations are an emerging military capability in defence organisations worldwide and consequently little is known of their effectiveness or impact on current and proposed network centric systems. The conjunction of information operations with, for example, full spectrum conflict, and the overarching rapid changes in technology, represents a substantial change in the way modern military operations are likely to be conducted. Current simulation support for investigating the impact of information operations has been largely provided by enhancements and extensions to existing simulation domains or tools. This method potentially fails to consider the unique characteristics of information operations and thereby may provide an inadequate environment for investigating the issues such as the impact on network centric warfare. In this paper the authors describe the relationship between information operations and network centric warfare. The authors argue that broader architectural issues associated with information operations and related information technologies need to be considered when such systems are being developed. Finally, through an example of land force operations a simulation-based architecture for assessing the impact of information operations on Army reconnaissance architectures is proposed.
In this paper the argument is made that the offensive fire support organisation and doctrine, born of the "indirect fire revolution" of the first world war, is the start point for distributed sensors, shooters and deciders that may be transferred to a joint force; that the culture of directive control and mission orders developed by the German Army in 1918 and then adopted by most western armies is the start point for the culture required to achieve "self synchronisation" and that the network developed for the air defence of carrier battle groups is the start point for developing a networked ground manoeuvre force. We discuss the strategic expectations of network centric warfare, a "virtual war" scenario and the inherent vulnerabilities. The current level of understanding and implementation in specific areas is analysed and lessons for general application are developed and the potential payoff identified. Three broad operational domains are investigated, networked platform versus platform warfare between states, guerrilla/counter-insurfence operations and the emerging domain of "netwars" (terror organisations and criminal gangs).
Battlespace digitisation systems must be flexible enough to maximise the effectiveness of manoeuvre warfare against a range of possible threats. Currently, this flexibility is largely a manual process. The aim of this paper is to examine the applicability of Belief, Desire and Intention (BDI) intelligent agent technologies for use in situation awareness and information dissemination systems. This paper illustrates how intelligent software can be used: to enhance the effectiveness of battlespace digitisation systems. The BDI agent model is an event-driven execution model providing both reactive and proactive behaviour. The utility of this model is demonstrated via the agent-based Collection Plan Management System (CPMS).
KEYWORDS: Local area networks, Databases, Telecommunications, Computing systems, Geographic information systems, Visualization, Information technology, Commercial off the shelf technology, Global Positioning System, Decision support systems
Effective battlespace awareness is essential for any defence operation; this is especially true in the increasingly complex and dynamic land component of the military environment. Because of its relatively small force size dispersed piece-wise across a large and largely vacant landmass, the Defence of Australia presents a somewhat unique challenge for the development of systems that support command decision-making. The intent of this paper is to first examine the digitisation effort under way in Australia and describe the Army Battlefield Command Support System (BCSS) being developed for use in the tactical arena. BCSS is essentially a suite of commercial-off-the-shelf and government-off-the-shelf software components provided via a standard operating environment to aid decision-making. Then, we present the development of a Tactical Land C4I Assessment Capability (TLCAC) synthetic environment which is being used to undertake controlled performance evaluations of the various elements of the BCSS suite and provide impact assessments of new technological advances. The TLCAC provides a capacity to assess in near real-time Brigade and below level command post exercise activities. That is, when deployed it provides a mechanism to automatically collect command and control and manoeuvre data, which can aid in the after action review process.
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