Future Combat Systems – Data and Information Science Technologies as a Force Multiplier
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Authors
Gallup, Shelley
Nissen, Mark
Subjects
knowledge flows
knowledge simulation
knowledge dynamics
knowledge simulation
knowledge dynamics
Advisors
Date of Issue
2018-04
Date
Presented April 10-12, 2018
Period of Performance: 01/01/2018-12/31/2018
Period of Performance: 01/01/2018-12/31/2018
Publisher
Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Project Summary: This research project developed and applied a new methodology for understanding the needs and performance of networks to do work. Networks are now considered a warfighting platform and have increased in performance, complexity and importance. Currently the work intended through the use of networks may not be well described by the engineering performance of hardware and transport layers alone. Instead, we propose that performance is also related to the dynamics of knowledge sharing amongst the actors in the network. In this research, we used emerging constructs of knowledge dynamics to describe and analyze knowledge flows. To test this methodology, we looked at knowledge flows in a tactical situation, in the act of distinguishing friendly tracks from hostile or neutral ones (combat ID, or CID). A simulation is used to show how knowledge flow parameters may be used to help define network requirements and to assess network performance and further, how including new information technologies and data treatments amplify the utility of combined networks.
Type
Report
Description
NPS NRP Executive Summary
Series/Report No
Department
Organization
Naval Research Program
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-18-N196-A
Sponsors
N2/N6
Funder
NPS-18-N196-A
Format
4 p.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.