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Application of Network Centric Warfare Concepts to a Land-Air System
1 Introduction
In an attempt to demonstrate that the coordination and synchronisation of force elements of a
Land-Air System-of-systems (LAS) could be effectively achieved with the use of Network Centric
Warfare (NCW) concepts, we have constructed a system concept demonstrator (SCD) and
exercised this in a Synthetic Environment (SE). The LAS is a synergism of platform components,
C4ISR technologies and the people and procedures. Traditionally the formation, tasking and
command and control (C2) of Battlegroups, such as the LAS, has been accomplished by following
standardised procedures involving hierarchical lines of command and communication. This
process can lead to large time delays between task initiation and required effect and also can
impose a lot of rigidity to the mission plans. As a consequence, air strike missions in support of
land operations, for example, are not very responsive and tend to be restricted to targets with
fixed location. There is considerable potential for NCW technology to change this situation but
any introduction of technology must be accompanied by the development of new procedures and
operational doctrine. We have previously described (ref 1) a system-of-systems (SoS)
development and evaluation methodology, which is a combination of system architecting,Page 2
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