Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2012
Abstract
The Global Information Grid (GIG) is the military’s computer and communications network which supports the myriad of military missions. Military missions are highly planned, passing through many hands in the strategy-to-task methodology to ensure completeness, accuracy, coordination, cohesion, and appropriateness. A benefit of this planning is the possibility to collect knowledge of future conditions that could be of use to network designers whose goals include optimizing and protecting the GIG. This advanced knowledge includes which networked military equipment will be involved, what their capabilities are, where they will be, when they will be there, and particulars on the required data flows. A Network Tasking Order process is proposed as a means of collecting this information, analyzing the information to generate network taskings, and disseminating those taskings. Tactical integration of assets in mobile networks is introduced as another planning variable in the battlefield; not unlike logistical considerations such as fuel, ammunition, water, and so on used currently in operation planning. Modeling and simulation is used to support the proposed benefits.
DOI
10.1177/1548512910371702
Source Publication
Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation
Recommended Citation
Compton, M. D., Hopkinson, K. M., Peterson, G. L., & Moore, J. T. (2012). Using Modeling and Simulation to Examine the Benefits of a Network Tasking Order. Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 9(3), 205–217. https://doi.org/10.1177/1548512910371702
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Computer Sciences Commons, Other Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering Commons
Comments
AFIT Scholar furnishes the draft version of this article. The published version of record appears in The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation and is available by subscription through the DOI link in the citation below.