Understanding and Evaluating Command & Control Effectiveness by Measuring Battlespace Awareness

摘要

Establishing and maintaining effective Command & Control (C2) is essential to mission success. Over time, C2 has evolved due to changes in technology, doctrine, and threats. While C2 may be necessary, it is not sufficient to guarantee mission success, which depends on many factors. This research investigates a time-valued information entropy-based method used to quantify battlespace awareness. The goal of this research is to determine how this existing information entropy-based method can be extended to aid C2 decision makers in understanding and evaluating military C2 effectiveness independent of mission success, particularly for complex military System-of- Systems network architectures. The end result is a set of analyses that can be incorporated into traditional Modeling & Simulation techniques to evaluate and classify C2 system performance under varying factors and conditions. These changes can include differences in the following: C2 systems and approaches, enemy action, information sharing and decision making, planning, intelligence collection and data gathering, platform and sensor performance, etc. From this, a more quantitative estimate of desired C2 attributes such as agility, robustness, and responsiveness can be achieved. Collectively, this set of analyses is referred to as TABS or Tracking Awareness in the Battlespace during Simulation.