Knowledge Flow Mesh and its Dynamics: A Decision Support Environment / 13th ICCRTS, "C2 for Complex Endeavors"
Abstract
The exciting advances in modern communications and networking ability have spawned
a revolution in decision support systems within the greater network centric framework.
Note the ongoing development and operational use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
in the Global War on Terror and the geographically distributed C2 environment. Sensor
saturation and the maturation of mobile technology has advanced at rate in which the
current crop of decision and sense making technology has failed to pace against. This
leads to one of the most interesting questions pertaining to the current field of decision
support systems: Which one is best suited for today’s rapidly adapting and evolving
network centric tactical situations? In this paper we introduce the concept of knowledge
flow mesh dynamics within a decision support environment, which we argue is the
logical heir to a new type of decision support system as seen through the network centric
lens. Using the ongoing work by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and United
States Special Operations Command Tactical Network Topology (TNT) Field
Experimentation as a framework for exploration, we offer a systems approach to
identifying those criteria which form the basis for the new decision support system. It is
our goal that this model be incorporated in future versions of the NPS TNT Field
Experiments for validation.
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13th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), June 17-19, 2008, Seattle, WA.
13th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposia (ICCRTS 2008), 17-19 Jun
2008, Seattle, WA
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