COURSE # ROO-410
C4ISR PRINCIPLES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Most comprehensive treatment of C4ISR, from basic scientific
principles to the network-centric vision for the next century.
Modern warfare is conducted at longer ranges and with greater precision
than ever before. Overall mission effectiveness increasingly depends
upon systems and services external to a weapon system. Those systems
and services fall in the domain of "C4ISR".
This course presents C4ISR from the ground up. It begins with
fundamental scientific principles, shows how those principles are
exploited in various technologies, describes current systems that take
the technology into the theater of war, and concludes with a look at the
vision of the future "network-centric" battlespace.
Applications and benefits:
You will benefit by enhancing your understanding of the:
- Role of C4ISR in the modern military and how to measure its
effectiveness.
- Theory and operations of command, control and communications (C3)
systems.
- Physics of materials signatures, sensors, and detection mechanisms.
- Technologies and systems used to collect, fuse, and disseminate
information.
- DoD vision for networking a system of systems to support Joint Vision
2010
Who should attend:
This course is intended for engineers, analysts, and operators who are
involved in one or more aspects of C4ISR and desire a broader view, as
well as for all those who are entering the field. For maximum benefit,
a scientific or engineering background is helpful but not required.
Course Outline:
Part I: Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
- Command and Control
- Battle Management
- C2 Hierarchy: Systems and Commands
- TBMCS, CTAPS
- TAMPS/ AFMSS/ JMPS-the evolution of mission planning
- New Mission Planning Requirements
- Navigation & Positioning
- Inertial Navigation
- Position Fixing, Terrain Following Using DTED
- GPS
- Navigation and Geolocation for Aviation
- Target Location
- Methods of geolocation
- Errors in Target Location
- Computers
- JTA/ DII/ COE-DoD C4ISR Architecture Requirements
- JV2010 background
- Interoperability-Software/Hardware
- Image Dissemination:NITFS, DataCompression for Low Bandwidth Channels
- Computing and Avionics-1553 BUS; New Aircraft Systems
- Communications
- Overview: Definitions, Concepts for Networks
- Network Layers
- Bandwidth
- Military Comms. Channels
- JTIDS/ Link-16
- Satellite Communications
- Overview: Definitions, Benefits, Trades
- SATCOM Links: Example Link Analysis
- SATCOM Systems: Milstar, FLTSATCOM, etc.
- SATCOM errror detection and correction: FEC, Coding Schemes
- Designing a C4 System: Students explore the process and trades of developing their own system to meet interoperability and user requirements
Part II: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
- Observables and Sensors
- Photon Detectors: solid state devices, optics, exploitation
- Wave detectors
- Passive sensors: antennas, signals intercept, direction finding
- Active sensors: AMTI, GMTI, SAR, ISAR, IFSAR
- Platforms and Sensors
- National: Corona
- USAF: DSP, AWACA, JSTARS, Rivet Joint
- USA: Quickfix, Guardrail
- USMC:Firefinder
- USN: Hawkeye, Hornet, ADS
- Future: Discoverer II, SBIRS-Low, UAVs
- Architectures
- Current:Stovepipe
- Future: JV2010, JTA
- Effectiveness Analysis
- Principles
- Examples
About the Instructors
Thomas E. Duerr, M.S., is presently a senior physicist in the Power
Projection Systems Department of The Johns Hopkins University, Applied
Physics Laboratory, where he is currently engaged in modeling
surveillance and reconnaissance systems in support of Theater Ballistic
Missile Defense and strike warfare. He has been contributing to the
fields of modeling, simulation, and evaluation of C4ISR systems for the
past 18 years.
William J. Geckle, M.S., has been working as a scientist in the fields
of imaging and computer technology for 18 years. He is currently a
section supervisor and senior physicist in the Power Projection Systems
Department of The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory,
where he is engaged in several RTIC / RTOC programs. Mr. Geckle was the
lead engineer for a critical portion of the Strike II RTIC demonstration
held in 1996. He is currently working the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, helping to develop the JSF RTIC/RTOC architecture.
Details:
Course: ROO-410 Duration: 4 Days FEE: $1,395 CEUs: 2.88
Please direct any additional inquiries regarding our courses to Robert Blakely, Program Director, by e-mail, FAX: (301) 871-4942 or TELEPHONE: (301) 871-9608.
Call toll free 1-800-683-7267 from anywhere in the Continental U.S. or CANADA.
Last modified July 5, 1999.
