YSANAOYOA

Maj Roger Roland, USMC, Ret.

Open Source ... They gotta Cream for that..

IBID.

Operational Architecture

How we do what we do With or Without specialized tools

Except....

TRANSFORMATIONAL TOOLS

For Example:

The RADIO

- We can do things farther away from each other- We can have a much larger frontage- Effects over larger areas

-Perfected by German Tankers .... Blitz

Software Transformation

INTERNET == Better Radio

WWW == INFORMATION EFFECTS

- MORE, BROADER, NEW DIMENSIONS

TRANSFORMATIONAL?

But ...

What can SMART Radios Do?

Don't Care .. We're Gonna Win Anyway ...

OK .. Maybe we care, But ...

What does SMART Mean anyway?

Increase TACTICAL AWARENESSIncrease PRECISIONIncrease SPEEDIncrease SURVIVABILITY

Can't we already do this? ...

Not Hardly

POSITION LOCATION INFORMATION (PLI)

Common Operational Picture (COP)

Stupid Radios

Crappy Software

ACQUISITIONS FAILURE MODEL

POSITION LOCATION INFORMATION (PLI)

Common Operational Picture (COP)

YSANAOYOA

POSITION LOCATION INFORMATION (PLI)

Common Operational Picture (COP)

PLI is about INFORMATION SHARING

Current Systems don't share on purpose

- Stupid security- Vertical Integration- HARDWARE focus- Do it WRONG BETTER

Can't Solve Problems with same thinking that caused them- Albert E.

COMBAT RELEVANT PLI

REQUIRES

AWARENES

OF

THE

OPERATIONAL ARCHITECTURE

COMBAT RELEVANT PLI

REQUIRES

OPEN
SOFTWARE

INTEGRATION

OK LET'S FIX THIS

Information is a SOFTWARE problem

Software is NOT a radio

Radio == Internet

Software == WWW

What does a RADIO need to be AWARE OF To EXTEND range through CYBERSPACE ?

Operational Architecture.

What is OPERATIONAL ARCHITECTURE ?

WHOWHATWHEREWHENWHY

DATA MODEL FOR OPERATIONAL ARCHITECTURE:

WHO == IDENTITY

WHAT == RANK, SPECIALTY

WHERE == LOCATION ON PLANETWHERE == LOCATION IN CYBERSPACE

WHEN == NOW !

WHY == MAKE A DECISION

MARINE AIR GROUND TASK FORCE(MAGTF)

MAGTF SHARED AWARENESS

COMBAT RELEVANT PLI

TACTICAL DATA NETWORK EXTENSION

- REQUIRES MORE THAN CONNECTIVITY -

WHY OPEN SOURCE FOR TACTICAL COMPUTING?

BLUE FORCE TRACKER = FAILURE MODEL

WWW = SUCCESS MODEL

WWW = SHARED DATA

WWW = OPEN SOURCE

OSS = SUCCESS MODEL

WHY OPEN SOURCE FOR TACTICAL COMPUTING?

Share Data Stop FratricideCoalition IntegrationContinuous Improvement

WHY OPEN SOURCE FOR TACTICAL COMPUTING?

Fix Stupid

SEMPER FIDELIS !!