Designing and Provisioning for a Consistent C2 Approach for Marine-Machine Teaming

NPS NRP Project PosterDesigning and Provisioning for a Consistent C2 Approach for Marine-Machine TeamingMarine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL)This research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Joint Fires in Support Distributed Maritime Operations

NPS NRP Executive SummaryJoint Fires in Support Distributed Maritime OperationsN2/N6 - Information WarfareThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Designing and Provisioning for a Consistent C2 Approach for Marine-Machine Teaming

NPS NRP Executive SummaryDesigning and Provisioning for a Consistent C2 Approach for Marine-Machine TeamingMarine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL)This research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

MQ-25 Manned/Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T)

NPS NRP Executive SummaryManned aircraft coordinate with tankers locally through voice, hand signals and lighting. MQ-25A coordination is through a remote operator, typically through beyond line of sight communications. Degradation or loss of that communications link would inhibit refueling capability. MUM-T may be a key enabler for increased reliability and resilience in the unmanned tanking mission. Further, advanced MUM-T capability may enable force multiplier missions, increasing war fighting capabilities of the carrier air wing. Co-Active Design and interdependence analysis are two proven methods for identifying human machine teaming requirements that enable resilience, reliability, and identify potential pitfalls.Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)ASN(RDA) - Research, Development, and AcquisitionThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

MQ-25 Manned/Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T)

NPS NRP Executive SummaryManned aircraft coordinate with tankers locally through voice, hand signals and lighting. MQ-25A coordination is through a remote operator, typically through beyond line of sight communications. Degradation or loss of that communications link would inhibit refueling capability. MUM-T may be a key enabler for increased reliability and resilience in the unmanned tanking mission. Further, advanced MUM-T capability may enable force multiplier missions, increasing war fighting capabilities of the carrier air wing. Co-Active Design and interdependence analysis are two proven methods for identifying human machine teaming requirements that enable resilience, reliability, and identify potential pitfalls.Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)ASN(RDA) - Research, Development, and AcquisitionThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

MQ-25A Manned/Unmanned Teaming

NPS NRP Executive SummaryManned aircraft coordinate with tankers locally through voice, hand signals and lighting. MQ-25A coordination is through a remote operator, typically through beyond line of sight communications. Degradation or loss of that communications link would inhibit refueling capability. Human machine teaming may be a key enabler for increased reliability and resilience in the unmanned tanking mission. Further, advanced human machine teaming capability may enable force multiplier missions, increasing war fighting capabilities of the carrier air wing. Co-Active Design and interdependence analysis are two proven methods for identifying human machine teaming requirements that enable resilience, reliability, and identify potential pitfalls. This year's research effort focuses on enhancing mission capabilities by exploring two key areas: enhanced ISR capabilities, and operations in non-permissive communications and position, navigation, and timing environments.ASN(RDA) - Research, Development, and AcquisitionThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

MQ-25A Manned/Unmanned Teaming

NPS NRP Project PosterManned aircraft coordinate with tankers locally through voice, hand signals and lighting. MQ-25A coordination is through a remote operator, typically through beyond line of sight communications. Degradation or loss of that communications link would inhibit refueling capability. Human machine teaming may be a key enabler for increased reliability and resilience in the unmanned tanking mission. Further, advanced human machine teaming capability may enable force multiplier missions, increasing war fighting capabilities of the carrier air wing. Co-Active Design and interdependence analysis are two proven methods for identifying human machine teaming requirements that enable resilience, reliability, and identify potential pitfalls. This year's research effort focuses on enhancing mission capabilities by exploring two key areas: enhanced ISR capabilities, and operations in non-permissive communications and position, navigation, and timing environments.ASN(RDA) - Research, Development, and AcquisitionThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Modeling SIGINT

NPS NRP Executive SummaryOPNAV and NAVAIR seek to more accurately assess both the engineering-level capability of a set of airborne SIGINT sensors against a representative set of threat emissions, and the impact of those airborne SIGINT sensors on effects chains. Intent is to assess current and future performance, better informing investment and design trade space decisions. The research objectives are threefold: survey existing SIGINT Modeling capabilities within the DOD, design and implement engineering level SIGINT modeling capabilities as required, and finally, match/aggregate those engineering level results to mission level models such as the Naval Simulation System (NSS) and the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM). The research approach will be straight forward. All researchers will collaborate on surveying the existing SIGINT modeling domain. Then the research team will create two sub teams. The first will investigate possible SIGINT Engineering modeling solutions. The second team will investigate the requirements for feeding SIGINT engineering details into the mission models. Deliverables are intended to be a completed survey of SIGINT Modeling, with an analysis of possible capability gaps, design and or production of engineering level SIGINT Models, and instructions for how to aggregate SIGINT engineering models into mission level models.N9 - Warfare SystemsThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Modeling SIGINT

NPS NRP Project PosterOPNAV and NAVAIR seek to more accurately assess both the engineering-level capability of a set of airborne SIGINT sensors against a representative set of threat emissions, and the impact of those airborne SIGINT sensors on effects chains. Intent is to assess current and future performance, better informing investment and design trade space decisions. The research objectives are threefold: survey existing SIGINT Modeling capabilities within the DOD, design and implement engineering level SIGINT modeling capabilities as required, and finally, match/aggregate those engineering level results to mission level models such as the Naval Simulation System (NSS) and the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM). The research approach will be straight forward. All researchers will collaborate on surveying the existing SIGINT modeling domain. Then the research team will create two sub teams. The first will investigate possible SIGINT Engineering modeling solutions. The second team will investigate the requirements for feeding SIGINT engineering details into the mission models. Deliverables are intended to be a completed survey of SIGINT Modeling, with an analysis of possible capability gaps, design and or production of engineering level SIGINT Models, and instructions for how to aggregate SIGINT engineering models into mission level models.N9 - Warfare SystemsThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Digital Mission Command in the Joint Force Operations

NPS NRP Project PosterThe Naval Special Warfare Command (NAVSPECWARCOM) needs to envision and design a C5I systems architecture so hyper-networked that SOF personnel will acquire emergent and disaggregate information, plan/decide/act faster; and use disruptive technologies to create decisive effects in all domains. Adopting Digital Mission Command (DMC) in Joint All Domain Command & Control (JADC2) environment assures asymmetric advantage for SA, decision timeliness and knowledge ubiquity. Our prime research objective advances this by designing a "SA knowledge" service, an adaptive service closing a feedback loop between the dynamic world view and an operator's decision space over this view. The aim is to address the customer's research objective which is dynamically managing discerning workflows at the tactical edge. The approach on this study will define major functional requirements for the disruptive storage. This will include exploring the suitability of multi-dimensional cubes storage for DMC of the Future. Our research team will envision how to represent battlespace situations via graph data models using events to make it adaptive to the world view. We'll also delve into multiple contexts available for a given situation. Finally, we'll explore an idea of a "world state" for a given situations, and how to use "action" events to present dynamic world model by moving from one "world state" to the other. The results of studying current and envisioned architectures to ensure alignment must be captured in IPR presentations and a final report. They will include proposed C5I architecture based on disruptive technologies with recommendations for envisioned capabilities that satisfy future requirements. Our research will ensure proposed C5I architecture will be scalable and extensible.Naval Special Warfare Command (NAVSPECWARCOM)N7 - Warfighting DevelopmentThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.