COURSE # ROO-410
C4ISR: PRINCIPLES, REQUIREMENTS, AND SYSTEMS
...a most comprehensive treatment of C4ISR, from the underlying basic scientific principles through to advanced systems in the network-centric vision of the digital battlespace...
Modern warfare is conducted at longer ranges and with greater precision than ever before. Overall mission effectiveness increasingly depends upon systems and services external to a weapon system. Those systems and services fall in the domain of "C4ISR".
This course presents C4ISR from the ground up. It begins with fundamental scientific principles, shows how those principles are exploited in various technologies, describes current systems that take the technology into the theater of war, and concludes with a look at the vision of the future "network-centric" battlespace.
Applications and benefits:
You will benefit by enhancing your understanding of the:
- Role of C4ISR in the modern military and how to measure its effectiveness.
- Theory and operations of command, control and communications (C3) systems.
- Physics of materials signatures, sensors, and detection mechanisms.
- Technologies and systems used to collect, fuse, and disseminate information.
- DoD vision for networking a system of systems to support Joint Vision 2010.
Who should attend:
This course provides the concepts, objectives, operations and a vision of this rapidly expanding technology rendering it invaluable to engineers, analysts, and operators who are involved in one or more aspects of C4ISR and desire a broader view, as well as for all those who are entering the field. For maximum benefit, a scientific or engineering background is helpful but not required.
Course Outline:
Part I describes current and future C4ISR systems and technology. Part II establishes the principles and requirements for building an interoperable architecture with these systems using the most recent DoD specifications.
Part I: C4ISR Systems and Technology
- Linking Successful Warfighting, Interoperability and Well Crafted Architectures
- Command and Control
- Battle Management
- C2 Hierarchy:
- Systems and Commands
- Sensor-to-Shooter, Time Critical Targeting (TCT) Approaches and Lessons Learned
- Computers
- The Global Information Grid (GIG), Net-Centric Warfare, and The Distributed Common Ground Station (DCGS)
- Service Oriented Architectures – Enabling Net Centric Operations
- Communications
- Overview
- Fundamentals and definitions
- Networks
- Jamming and Low Probability of Intercept / Detection (LPI/LPD) techniques
- Military Communication Channels – TADILs (Tactical Data and Information Links): Link 11, Link-16
- Satellite Communications
- Overview
- Definitions
- Benefits
- Trade-offs
- Link Analysis
- SATCOM Systems
- The 2020 Transformational Communications Architecture (TCA)
- SATCOM and C4ISR Architecture Evolution
- Observables and Sensors
- Fundamentals
- Current and Future Systems
- Electronic Intelligence (ELINT)
- Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)
- Image Intelligence (IMINT)
- Sensor Fusion
- Passive Sensors
- Antennas
- Signals Intercept
- Direction Finding
- Active sensors
- High Range Resolution (HRR)
- Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI)
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
- I(Inverse)SAR
- InterFerometric SAR (IFSAR)
- Platforms and Sensors - National
- Services
- Space Based Radar (SBR) and Infrared (SBIR)
- UAVs
- Net-Centric Operations
- Precision Targeting: Target Location
- Methods of Geolocation
- Errors in Target Location
- Implications for Battle Management
Part II: C4ISR Architecture Requirements and Principles
- DoD C4ISR Requirements
- Overview of the JCIDS process for C4ISR systems
- Building the Information Support Plan
- C4ISR Architectures and the Interoperability Problem
- Foundations of Architecture Development: Structured Analysis, Static and Executable Models
- DoD Architecture Definition - Operational, Systems, Technical Views
- The role of Architectures in JCIDS
- Building the Required DoD C4ISR products
- Architecture Views and Data Bases
- Isolating a new system's performance and defining MOP's and MOE's
- Field Exercises, Simulations, and Architecture Development
- Review of software tools for building architectures and executable models
- Building a C4ISR System of Systems
- Data Fusion for Improved Detection and Reduced False Alarms – theory and practice
- Improved tracking and surveillance – recent examples and prototypes of multi-sensor ground tracking systems
- Evaluation of data fusion based C4ISR systems – cost/benefit considerations
About the Instructor
William J. Geckle is with Johns Hopkins University where he is a Principal Staff Physicist in the Air and Missile Defense Department, Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). During his 31 year career as a scientist in Defense Technology he led the Fires and Targeting team for the ONR ‘Extending the Littoral Battlespace’ ACTD, served as technical lead for several Real Time Into / Out of the Cockpit (RTIC/RTOC) programs, gained extensive experience in the development of solutions for Joint TADIL communications, and was a designer of the JSF C4ISR architecture. He also led the C4ISR architecture development for NGA?s Global Network Centric and Targeting (GNCST) program that will provide tailored products in support of Time Critical Targeting around the world and for Long Range Strike (LRS), the Air Force future strike platform for penetration of denied air space. He lead an OSD AT&L transformational effort to improve the Ground Picture by heavily leveraging upstream data fusion. He is currently supporting the development of the U.S. Navy?s next generation radar and its C4ISR architecture. Mr. Geckle has extensive technical experience in C4ISR in the support of Air Force, Navy, Marine, Army and national agency operations.
Mr. Geckle has authored over two dozen technical publications in the areas of C4ISR and radar. He also holds a pending patent for a new, fused GMTI/VMTI/EO tracking technology. He holds a M.S. degree in Physics from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Details:
Course: ROO-410 Duration: 3 Days FEE: $1,499 CEUs: 2.16
Please direct any additional inquiries regarding our courses to Zygmond Turski, Program Director, by e-mail, FAX: (240) 371-4488 or TELEPHONE: (202) 241-6326.
Call toll free 1-800-683-7267 from anywhere in the Continental U.S. or CANADA.
Last modified November 11, 2011.
