Dynamic Targeting in the Information Age

摘要

This paper presents a list of operational deficiencies facing military planners in the era of dynamic targeting and provides a discussion of potential solutions identifying technical issues needing to be resolved in order to meet operational needs within the information age. The paper outlines and discusses a notional solution enabling real-time re-tasking and reallocation of airborne assets through utilization of information integration within an enterprise solution. The enterprise framework is designed to support a collaborative Distributed Command & Control construct that utilizes: efficient spectrum management; policy-driven approaches; generation of rule- based solutions within the context of a users request and constraints; adaptive protocol management; and knowledge-based processing to provide war fighters a real-time re-targeting capability. Technical issues such as: communications and network architectures; seamless, secure, reliable data-linking and networking; limited throughput capacity; efficient management of links & networks; and quality of service (QoS) responses in constraint- driven environments are highlighted and discussed. Experimental data is presented that demonstrates how operationally a secure real-time retargeting capability can be achieved through the enterprise framework, web enabled technologies, collaborative software applications, spectrum management techniques, quality of service (QoS) enforcement algorithms, and prioritization & optimization of network scheduling and data linked information that re-assigns aircraft to prosecute time sensitive high-value targets of opportunity.