Transcript Dominant Air Power: Design For Tomorrow…Deliver Today

Aeronautical Systems Center
Dominant Air Power: Design For Tomorrow…Deliver Today
SOA Development
and Assessment
Challenges
September 27, 2007
Tim Menke
ASC/XRA
937-255-1276
[email protected]
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Date: 9/12/2007. Document Number ASC 07-0297.
Overview
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Challenge
Network Enabled Warfare
Assessment
Two Potential Uses of SOA
Summary
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Challenge
Dominant Air Power: Design For Tomorrow…Deliver Today
The Air Force recognizes the need to fight in a
net-centric world! What type of infrastructure is
required to enable this capability?
- Not a clean slate design!
- AF must leverage its existing investments!
- Not a static, permissive, IP environment!
- Lots of network solution competitors
AF question: How do we sort through all of these options to
cost effectively optimize our combat capability?
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Network Enabled Warfare
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We understand that information must be
developed, assessed for value (perhaps
fused), packaged appropriately for
distribution, shared (transmitted or made
available through a publish/subscribe
service), unpacked, assessed for value
(perhaps fused), acted upon (the reason it
is valuable)…
Ultimately, the human is responsible for assessing this information
for value and in the military world that assessment is performed under
a lot of very unfavorable circumstances and constraints…
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Network Enabled Warfare
Applied with a Capability Focus
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Capability focus
enabled by an
integrated system
of systems!
Distributed
Fusion
-Among Task Force
-To/From GIG
Gateway?
Fusion
-On Board
-Multi-Ship
Uplinks/Downlinks
- Direct
- Entry into the GIG
Gateway?
Fusion
Reach-back
Global
Information
Grid (GIG)
-On Board
-Four-Ship
Fusion
-On Board
-Four-Ship
Tactic needs dictate high performance!
- Guaranteed delivery in real time!
Information is Agnostic! It doesn’t care what network it resides within….and neither do we!
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So where does a SOA fit?
Lots of opinions but very little practical data!
Dominant Air Power: Design For Tomorrow…Deliver Today
UHF/SATCOM
IP.SOA?
There is little doubt
that a SOA will be
useful for our C2
functions!
Link16
Weapon Data Link?
LINK16?
IP based link? (SOA?)
Tight coupling
required to “steer”
the weapon to achieved
desired battlespace effect!
There is a lot of debate about the military utility of a SOA within our
tactical networks!
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Modeling and Simulation
within the AF
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Air Force
Integrated
Collaborative
Environment
(AF-ICE)
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Linked live-virtualconstructive
AWACS
JSTARS
SBR
Senior Scout
Rivet Joint
Sensor
DSP
U2
Predator
Global Hawk
DCGS
JSTARB
AWACS
CRC
AOC
Battle Management
Scalable, multiresolution models
F-15E
B-2
EA-6
F-16CJ
UAV
Strike Platform
B-52
JDAM
EM
EM
Jamming
Jamming
Weapon
TargetIADS
SDB
Cluster
Munitions
TCTs
SA-xx
Persistent, reusable, interoperable,
composable, integrated
Align functional responsibilities to meet AF goals
Leverage existing expertise and investments
Improve response time to field capability
Field credible net-centric capability
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A National Test Bed?
An AF-ICE Objective
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Sufficient fidelity &
credibility to enable
system/network
certification
Distributed
Fusion
-Among Task Force
-To/From GIG
Gateway?
Fusion
-On Board
-Multi-Ship
Uplinks/Downlinks
- Direct
- Entry into the GIG
Gateway?
Fusion
-On Board
-Four-Ship
Global
Information
Grid (GIG)
- Used to support:
-- Network Development
-- Network/System Integration
-- Network Certification
Fusion
-On Board
-Four-Ship
ESC: CEIF
Hanscom
(MCSOA)
Boeing: CFID
St Louis
LMC: DEVNET & TBMCS
Colorado Springs
AFMC 412th TW: ATIC
Edwards
(DIADS)
AFCA: NOSC-X
Scott AFB
ASC: SIMAF
Wright Patterson
(EAAGLES/
MCSOA)
AFC2ISRC: TC
Langley
(CDE)
SMC/TD: DSL
LA-AFS
SWC: SPAIF
Peterson
LMC: Lighthouse
Suffolk
Raytheon: MS
Tucson
Quantified in terms the operational
world understands….mission
effectiveness!
OAS 705thEXS: DMOC
Kirtland
(DMO)
LMC: IWDC
Fort Worth
Key:
Investigating connection
options into AF-ICE
AFAMS: CVC
Pentagon
NGC: CAOC-X
Melbourne
AAC 46th TW: GWEF
Eglin
Future AF-ICE Connectivity
National Capabilities
Analysis Collaborative
Near-term AF-ICE Connectivity
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New tools for a new set of requirements
Enhanced Air-to-air & Air-to-Ground Linked Environment Simulation
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EAAGLES - Capabilities based design for
 Electronic combat
 Robust air-to-air and air-to-ground
 Support of hundreds of players
 Proven real-time architecture
 Reconfigurable player representation
 Variable and Scalable Fidelity in H/W & S/W
 Integration with / reuse of legacy and other codes
 Distributed simulation via DIS and HLA & Others
 Robust support for Hardware-in-the-Loop
 Optimized for the PC, platform independent
 Affordable: Single PC to Networked “clusters”
 Community developed and owned, government managed software
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Some pressing questions?
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1. Can a SOA meet our performance requirements in a
real-time tactical network?
- Fighter “steering” a munition against a moving target
- Must have reliable (guaranteed) delivery
2. In an IP based network, how much bandwidth will be
consumed by discovery services attempting to update
moving node locations?
- Our “cell towers” are moving and our enemies
are actively seeking to deny us service
3. What services would be tactically useful (buy their way
onto a fighter in improving combat capability) across
the varied mission sets?
- Functions the war-fighters deem valuable
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Summary
Dominant Air Power: Design For Tomorrow…Deliver Today
• Clearly, SOAs have a place in the Air Force!
• Questions remain within the tactical fleet!
• The means to address these issues will require
manned simulation to address the cognitive
nature of net centric warfare, reduce development
risk, provide pre-test credibility, and do so within
an operationally understandable syntax,
namely, mission effectiveness!
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Cleared for Public Release by ASC Public Affairs. Disposition Date: 9/12/2007. Document Number ASC 07-0297.