Toward a Science of Command, Control, and Communications

To properly engineer systems to provide unity of effort in command and control systems, it is necessary to have a science of command, control, and communications (C3). This book, the results of the Joint Directors of Laboratories Basic Research Group Program, is a collection of papers toward the goal of a science of C3. The topics include the logic of data fusion, command and control decision systems modeling and behavior, experimental findings, models of command and control, and models of C3 architectures. This variety provides the reader with state-of-the-art perspective on concepts, models, and experiments to understand command, control, and communications. The results of a focused DoD basic research program in command, control and communications will be of particular interest to professionals and students working in the C3 field.