CONVERTING SENSOR DATA TO TACTICAL INFORMATION

The U.S. military has made substantial progress in developing and fielding C4ISR systems that can collect and gather overwhelming amounts of valuable raw sensor data. A new challenge that has emerged with the deployment of numerous state-of-the-art ISR collection systems is the effective and timely use of the collected surveillance and reconnaissance information, or simply stated an architecture that pushes the timeliness and accessibility of this situational awareness data to the tactical edge – “the right data at the right time to the soldier.” Delivery of real time key information to include situational awareness to a decision maker is what makes the difference between loss and victory on the battlefront. This paper is an extension of a GVSETS paper that was presented in the 2010 symposium. This paper discusses in more detail the integration of command and control (C2), video management, and collaboration capabilities, such as chat and telestration, with the sensor collection that enables more timely and efficient situational awareness.