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Towards Optimized Performance in Military Operations

Authors:
Tapio Saarelainen

Keywords: Grid for Interface Assisted Decision Making, Business Process, military operation, Resource Manager, Service Oriented Architecture

Abstract:
Succeeding in military operations requires that the available resources be timely assessed and optimized. Sustaining combat performance asks for suitable tools for organizing services and resources that allow drawing from Situational Awareness, Common Operational Picture and utilizing Graphic User Interfaces. When aiming at maximum impact with the resources available, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be used as a tool in the process of organizing the services. This paper presents an idea-phase introduction of how to facilitate military decision-making process with the assistance of the systems described here. The objective involves increasing the performance capability to allow time-efficient execution of military operations. The paper examines the optimization of services requested by means of SOA when viewing a military maneuver as a Business Process (BP) and sketches a preliminary Grid for Interface Assisted Decision Making (GIADM) to facilitate timely and accurate data processing. GIADM exploits the data offered by means of SOA, the Resource Manager (RM), and BP, and aims at facilitating the decision making process of a military commander at the planning stage of a given operation including evaluating Courses of Action (COA). The paper sets out to identify how to utilize the collected data from the battlespace to empower the process of decision-making and how to benefit from SOA in the creation process of Grid for Interface Assisted Decision Making

Pages: 82 to 95

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2014. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 30, 2014

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2601