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Modeling War as a Business Process with the Assistance of Service Oriented Architecture

Authors:
Tapio Saarelainen

Keywords: Business Process; Service Oriented Architecture; Future Force Warrior

Abstract:
The pace of war is increasing since militaries are adopting the ideas of Network Centric Warfare (NCW). Therefore, the process of war has to be modeled into the Business Process in order to benefit from available resources in real-time. There is an increasing need to automate command and control tools utilized in military operations because of the versatility and increased tempo of operations. Operations can be commanded and orchestrated with the assistance of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA is currently seen as a technology that can satisfy these needs of network centric operations (NCO). The Business Processes are chains of logic that request SOA services. This paper argues that in the case of a military setting, in order to achieve maximum impact with minimal effort (cf. downsizing), military operations need to be modeled as Business Processes (BP) (e.g., a dismounted company attack). This asks for using a Resource Manager (RM), a Scheduler and a Battle Secure Scheduler (BSS) in allocating the requested services (e.g. processing a fire support order). In the future, a single Future Force Warrior (FFW), an essential performer in military operations, can benefit from the Business Processes approach via enhanced performance, improved Situational Awareness (SA) and with decreased instances of fratricide.

Pages: 1 to 7

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: February 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3964

ISBN: 978-1-61208-316-2

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 23, 2014 to February 27, 2014