Civil Reserve Information Services (CRIS) Concepts and One Possible Solution

摘要

This paper addresses the concepts of a future Civil Reserve Information Service(CRIS) using the success of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) as a model. The author's objective is to develop CRIS doctrinal concepts and relate those concepts to a possible solution using a commercial personal communications system. The author provides a foundation for the concepts by reviewing the CRAF program and how the CRIS program can use it as a model. Tasking and control issues of the CRIS program are analyzed and a recommendation for a command and control structure is offered. From this analysis, the author describes how a program like CRIS could help solve communication and information requirements facing the Department of Defense. The author then offers a specific solution to these requirements by describing a worldwide digital, satellite-based, cellular communications system and how it can be integrated into the CRIS program.