Engaging the Paradox: Increasing Capability with decreasing funds

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Engaging the ParadoxIncreasing Capability with
decreasing funds

• Ed Froese
• VP, Advanced ASW ISR
• The Boeing Company

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Our Changing Environment
Decreasing Budgets/Buying Power
Increased Unpredictability
Unblinking World Media
Proliferation of WMD
Drug-Trade Cartels
Religious / Ethnic Fault Lines
Homeland Security
International Terrorist Groups
Natural Disasters
Non-Traditional Collations
Regional Wars
Regional Instability / Failed States
Military States
Disillusioned Emerging Democracies
Threats to Peace Support Operations
Nuclear and Conventional Threats
Imbalance of Economic Power Resource
Distribution
Resurgent Fundamentalist Movements
Non-State Actors

Increasingly complex and changing demands on
our military forces
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The Problem
Capability Demand
Budgets
How do we provide necessary capabilities in the
face of increasing budget pressure, i.e. more
for less
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Way Forward

• Common standards and open systems
• Interoperable communication systems and
  networking
• Applications to process and manipulate data

Enables

• Interoperability
• Rapid insertion of upgrades and new capabilities
• Common picture
• Machine-to-machine interaction

Results in

• Shared awareness
• Dynamic and flexible real-time planning and
  employment
• Increased speed of action

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Shared Awareness Infrastructure Experiment

• Experiment
• Provided connectivity between airborne C2 node
  and CAOC
• Exchanged situational data
• Sent complete air picture to CAOC
• Sent ground tracks to airborne C2 node
• Added air battle management and C2 applications
  to manage and exploit the data
• Benefits
• Shared awareness
• Collaborative decisions
• Improved ID
• Reduced fratricide
• Increased Speed of Action

Air Picture Sent to the Ground
Ground Tracks Sent to the ABM Platform
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Time-Sensitive Target Experiment

• Experiment
• Provide UAV track data to air battle
  management/C2 node
• Provide ground track and video data to air battle
  management/C2 node
• Issue UAV camera control messages from C2 node to
  UAV for video feed
• Benefits
• Shared awareness
• Increased Speed of Action
• Collaborative response and decisions

Battle Management Display
UAV Track
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Time-Sensitive Target Experiment

• Experiment
• Provide UAV track data to air battle
  management/C2 node
• Provide ground track and video data to air battle
  management/C2 node
• Issue UAV camera control messages from C2 node to
  UAV for video feed
• Benefits
• Shared awareness
• Increased Speed of Action
• Collaborative response and decisions

Battle Management Display
UAV Track
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Time-Sensitive Target Experiment

• Experiment
• Provide UAV track data to air battle
  management/C2 node
• Provide ground track and video data to air battle
  management/C2 node
• Issue UAV camera control messages from C2 node to
  UAV for video feed
• Benefits
• Shared awareness
• Increased Speed of Action
• Collaborative response and decisions

Battle Management Display
UAV Track
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Thoughts.

• Evidence has grown concerning the utility of
  networked operations.
• Desert Storm vs. Iraqi Freedom
• Asymmetric Warfare
• FCS
• NCCT
• Open architecture systems with common standards
  crucial to efficient Through Life Capability
  management
• Interoperability is a critical measure imperative
  to success