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Appendix E C4ISR Capabilities for the Future Force
Pages 137-141

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... will use forward sensor fusion and ubiquitous, assured network communications to enable improved battle management, command and control, and situational awareness.
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From page 138...
... · Ad hoc sensor-command-shooter links will be automatically or semi automatically established to maximize effective firepower. Ensure Reliability · Computer hardware will be robust and rugged for operations in the field.
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From page 139...
... will be connected to the network to enable each warfighter to have access to needed information and to enable each system/sensor to contribute relevant data that it may collect to the knowledge pool. Understand First · The network will facilitate battlefield Identification: Friend or Foe by providing local situational awareness to engaged tactical units.
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... ANTICIPATED OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES DERIVED FROM INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE See First · Manned and unmanned ground, air, and space systems will extend vision beyond the line of sight to provide continuous, ubiquitous battlefield monitoring through both passive and aggressive RSTA. · Sensors will be available to see through walls in urban operations.
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... Understand First · Sensor data collected from both manned and unattended sensor networks will be processed, networked, and fused into an integrated COP for unprecedented situational awareness and understanding. · Commanders will be able automatically or with software decision aids to sort out from a variety of enemy data entries which are most dangerous and which have higher payoffs for engagement at tactical standoff.
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Key Terms

  • operational capabilities
  • situational awareness
  • capabilities derived
  • decision aids
  • individual soldiers

  • provide continuous
  • future force
  • sensor data
  • able automatically
  • maximum extent

  • technology insertions
  • local situational
  • improved battle
  • facilitate technology
  • effective firepower

  • enemy combatants
  • unmanned ground
  • future combat
  • network communications
  • commercially based

  • pattern analysis
  • available spectral
  • including individual
  • service functions
  • combat service

  • relevant data
  • assured network
  • combat information
  • vision beyond
  • sensor fusion


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