A comprehensive guide to C3 system development

Abstract

This thesis provides guidelines to develop a C3 system, including both organizational and physical systems. It contains the concept, architecture, design and engineering approaches, the integrated C3 framework, test and evaluation methodologies, system acquisition procedures, system development constraints and environment, and C3 research trends. This thesis is mainly descriptive and is comprehensive to help beginners in the C3 research area. It will give a fundamental understanding about the roles of all individual researchers, that is, the roles of people in computer science, operations research, military science, physiology, social science, organizational management, and so on. The focus of this thesis is on the decision-oriented design and engineering activities based on a consistent approach such as time-uncertainty distribution over the command and control process. For the real implementation of the C3 application system, the battlefield equation is introduced as a primary model modifying prior studies. .