Author: Committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: groups, strike, naval, future, c4isr
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $61.75
ISBN-10: 0309096006
ISBN-13: 9780309096003

The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of this construct is the need for flexible, adaptive command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. To assist development of this capability, the Navy asked the NRC to examine C4ISR for carrier, expeditionary, and strike and missile defense strike groups, and for expeditionary strike forces. This report provides an assessment of C4ISR capabilities for each type of strike group; recommendations

Author: Committee on Army Science and Technology for Homel
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: report, c4isr, security, homeland, science, technology, army
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2004-08-19
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 0309091640
ISBN-13: 9780309091640

Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Army asked the National Research Council (NRC) for a series of reports on how science and technology could assist the Army meet its Homeland defense obligations. The first report, Science and Technology for Army Homeland Security - Report 1, presented a survey of a road range of technologies and recommended applying Future Force technologies to homeland security wherever possible. In particular, the report noted that the Army should play a major role in providing emergency command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, survei