Model-Driven Development of Command and Control Capabilities For Joint and Coalition Warfare

Warfighter operational requirements for Joint tactical battle management and command and control (BM/C2) now reflect warfare capabilities required of networked interoperable systems, as opposed to the previous single-system orientation. However, network-centric warfare won’t realize full combat potential until the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition processes are geared toward developing system-of-systems materiel responses. DoD acquisition processes for solving interoperability must be transformed from a system-system interface basis, which leads to an unworkably complex N problem, to unprecedented (for DoD) holistic networked-system approaches. Initial such thrusts at the DoD-enterprise level, e.g., architecture frameworks, generalized technical architectures, Net Centric Enterprise Services, and the Net Centric Operations and Warfare Reference Model, are not sufficient to address the real time and complex adaptive system engineering challenges of Joint tactical BM/C2. The Joint Single Integrated Air Picture System Engineering Organization (JSSEO) is pioneering the technical and organizational processes needed for engineering development of information technology systems of systems, and prototyping DoD materiel solutions for network-centric operations. This paper discusses the JSSEO Model Driven ArchitectureTM approach to developing Joint tactical aerospace BM/C2, and points out the implications of broader application to Joint and Coalition command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance system-ofsystems network-centric transformation.