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Post-Westgate SWAT : C4ISTAR Architectural Framework for Autonomous Network Integrated Multifaceted Warfighting Solutions Version 1.0 : A Peer-Reviewed Monograph
Police SWAT teams and Military Special Forces face mounting pressure and
challenges from adversaries that can only be resolved by way of ever more
sophisticated inputs into tactical operations. Lethal Autonomy provides
constrained military/security forces with a viable option, but only if
implementation has got proper empirically supported foundations. Autonomous
weapon systems can be designed and developed to conduct ground, air and naval
operations. This monograph offers some insights into the challenges of
developing legal, reliable and ethical forms of autonomous weapons, that
address the gap between Police or Law Enforcement and Military operations that
is growing exponentially small. National adversaries are today in many
instances hybrid threats, that manifest criminal and military traits, these
often require deployment of hybrid-capability autonomous weapons imbued with
the capability to taken on both Military and/or Security objectives. The
Westgate Terrorist Attack of 21st September 2013 in the Westlands suburb of
Nairobi, Kenya is a very clear manifestation of the hybrid combat scenario that
required military response and police investigations against a fighting cell of
the Somalia based globally networked Al Shabaab terrorist group.Comment: 52 pages, 6 Figures, over 40 references, reviewed by a reade
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Predictive policing management: a brief history of patrol automation
Predictive policing has attracted considerably scholarly attention. Extending the promise of being able to interdict crime prior to its commission, it seemingly promised forms of anticipatory policing that had previously existed only in the realms of science fiction. The aesthetic futurism that attended predictive policing did, however, obscure the important historical vectors from which it emerged. The adulation of technology as a tool for achieving efficiencies in policing was evident from the 1920s in the United States, reaching sustained momentum in the 1960s as the methods of Systems Analysis were applied to policing. Underpinning these efforts resided an imaginary of automated patrol facilitated by computerised command and control systems. The desire to automate police work has extended into the present, and is evident in an emergent platform policing – cloud-based technological architectures that increasingly enfold police work. Policing is consequently datafied, commodified and integrated into the circuits of contemporary digital capitalism
Network Centric Operations and the Brigade Unit of Action: A System Dynamics Perspective
In the midst of fighting a global War on Terror, the U.S. Army is concurrently attempting to
transform to a more agile and deployable organization, which is centered largely on the
integration of new information technologies into its command posts. While most Army leaders
are reporting that many of these new information “tools” such as the Army Battle Command
System (ABCS) give them an unprecedented level of situational awareness and are beginning to
enable a new style of war labeled by some as Network Centric Warfare, other leaders are
reporting that the integration of this new digital technology comes with some unintended
consequences that in some cases actually slows and decreases the quality of information flow by
orders of magnitude. We studied the “Brigade Unit of Action” concept with specific emphasis
on the Brigade’s ability to disseminate and process information within and between command
posts, using System Dynamics as a modeling tool to help better understand the impact of various
policy decisions made by the U.S. Army. Our study concentrated on some of the possible
strengths and pitfalls of NCW theory, and led to the formulation of five heuristics that Army
leaders should consider when developing the future command and control architecture for the
Brigade Unit of Action
Electronic Forms-Based Computing for Evidentiary Analysis
The paperwork associated with evidentiary collection and analysis is a highly repetitive and time-consuming process which often involves duplication of work and can frequently result in documentary errors. Electronic entry of evidencerelated information can facilitate greater accuracy and less time spent on data entry. This manuscript describes a general framework for the implementation of an electronic tablet-based system for evidentiary processing. This framework is then utilized in the design and implementation of an electronic tablet-based evidentiary input prototype system developed for use by forensic laboratories which serves as a verification of the proposed framework. The manuscript concludes with a discussion of implications and recommendations for the implementation and use of tablet-based computing for evidence analysis
Self-Sustaining Cooling System
The rucksack loads that military, law enforcement, and hiking enthusiasts need for their tasks can be excessive and may lead to heat exhaustion. Cooling strategies have been proposed in the past, but there are significant constraints associated with these concepts. This MQP aimed to cool the body by pumping cooled water around the upper torso absorbing the body heat into the cooling water. The closed-system of cooled water flows to the back of the rucksack where heat is exchanged to an evaporative cooling system using a separate, non-potable water system. Field tests of the unit have documented significant quantitative cooling using this process
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