Modeling Bilateral Interoperability Through Command and Control Architecture

摘要

C4ISR architecture development and implementation is complicated when the systems belong to different services and nations. Combined interoperability - that is, interoperability between different services from different nations - is challenging. Sustained interoperability cuts across two dimensions: laterally between countries and horizontally over time. The essential starting point for combined C4 planners is the existing communications architecture. Common architecture formats greatly expedite combined C4 planning. This is particularly obvious in operational architecture planning for US Forces, and there is no reason to think that resolving differing architecture formats would be any easier in a combined operation. Most importantly, it is network simulation that provides the means to exercise and validate such architectures.