Re-Envisioning Command and Control

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Main Authors: McDowell, Kaleb, Novoseller, Ellen, Madison, Anna, Goecks, Vinicius G., Kelshaw, Christopher
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Published: 2024
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author McDowell, Kaleb
Novoseller, Ellen
Madison, Anna
Goecks, Vinicius G.
Kelshaw, Christopher
author_facet McDowell, Kaleb
Novoseller, Ellen
Madison, Anna
Goecks, Vinicius G.
Kelshaw, Christopher
contents Future warfare will require Command and Control (C2) decision-making to occur in more complex, fast-paced, ill-structured, and demanding conditions. C2 will be further complicated by operational challenges such as Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) communications and the need to account for many data streams, potentially across multiple domains of operation. Yet, current C2 practices -- which stem from the industrial era rather than the emerging intelligence era -- are linear and time-consuming. Critically, these approaches may fail to maintain overmatch against adversaries on the future battlefield. To address these challenges, we propose a vision for future C2 based on robust partnerships between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This future vision is encapsulated in three operational impacts: streamlining the C2 operations process, maintaining unity of effort, and developing adaptive collective knowledge systems. This paper illustrates the envisaged future C2 capabilities, discusses the assumptions that shaped them, and describes how the proposed developments could transform C2 in future warfare.
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spellingShingle Re-Envisioning Command and Control
McDowell, Kaleb
Novoseller, Ellen
Madison, Anna
Goecks, Vinicius G.
Kelshaw, Christopher
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
I.2.6; I.2.7; J.7
Future warfare will require Command and Control (C2) decision-making to occur in more complex, fast-paced, ill-structured, and demanding conditions. C2 will be further complicated by operational challenges such as Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) communications and the need to account for many data streams, potentially across multiple domains of operation. Yet, current C2 practices -- which stem from the industrial era rather than the emerging intelligence era -- are linear and time-consuming. Critically, these approaches may fail to maintain overmatch against adversaries on the future battlefield. To address these challenges, we propose a vision for future C2 based on robust partnerships between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This future vision is encapsulated in three operational impacts: streamlining the C2 operations process, maintaining unity of effort, and developing adaptive collective knowledge systems. This paper illustrates the envisaged future C2 capabilities, discusses the assumptions that shaped them, and describes how the proposed developments could transform C2 in future warfare.
title Re-Envisioning Command and Control
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
I.2.6; I.2.7; J.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07946