TEAM SPAWAR Chief Technology Officer

1
TEAM SPAWAR Chief Technology Officer Leadership
and Innovation
TEAM
Keynote Network Security
Mr. Gary Wang 7.0 National Lead SPAWAR
CTO SSC-SD Dir, ST, ENG
SSC San Diego
Overall Classification // Unclassified //
2
Outline

• Why you want to be in SD
• What is C4ISR
• Drivers/Emerging Technologies
• Value Chain
• Example
• Issues

3
San Diego is the IT Research Focus of the Nation

• Qualcomm, Inc
• SAIC
• Nokia Mobile
• Phones
• ViaSat
• Leap Wireless
• Kyocera America
• Titan Wireless
• Applied Micro
• Circuits Corp.
• Wireless Facilities
• Siemens

Best place in country for business and
careers - Forbes magazine

• San Diego is the hot
• spot for careers in
• information technology
• Kaplan Newsweek Careers

UCSD
SDSU
SSC San Diego
4
SPAWAR Co-Located with the Fleet, Industry and
Academia
Naval Special Warfare Command Naval Region,
Southwest Naval Station, San Diego Naval
Amphibious Base Naval Air Station Naval Sub
Base 3rd Fleet

JPEO JTRS
Camp Pendleton MC Air Station Miramar
5
Drivers and Technologies

• Drivers
• Extreme Mobility
• Location Based services economy
• Internet Altruism
• A wise crowd in action
• Emerging GIS economies
• Technologies
• Large fields of networked sensors
• Superconducting electronics
• Advanced materials ( nano this nano that)
• Human Behavioral research
• Micro Electro-Mechanical Machines
• Energy harvesting
• Cloud computing, pervasive connectivity

6
What is C4ISR

• C4ISR is an aggregation of diverse command and
  control, intelligence, surveillance and
  reconnaissance elements that provide military
  information to a Commander and, when brought
  together with appropriate communication and
  computer networks, may be thought of as a
  virtual, enabling capability for military
  operations. Clark and Moon

7
Definition

• C4ISR is defined in the Joint Technical
  Architecture (JTA Defense Information Systems
  Agency, 1999) as those systems that support
  properly designated commanders in the exercise of
  authority and direction over assigned and
  attached forces across the range of military
  operations collect, process, integrate,
  analyze, evaluate, or interpret available
  information concerning foreign countries or
  areas systematically observe aerospace,
  surface or subsurface areas, places, persons, or
  things by visual, aural, electronic,
  photographic, or other means and obtain, by
  visual observation or other detection methods,
  information about the activities and resources of
  an enemy or potential enemy, or secure data
  concerning the meteorological, hydrographic, or
  geographic characteristics of a particular area.

8
Value of C4ISR

• Most advanced weapon is useless if employed
  against wrong target or at wrong time
• Move to net-centric warfare driven by warfighter
• Enabler of efficient and effective operations
• Relevant, timely, accurate information for
  decision making

8
9
Digital Value Chain Proposition

• Synthesis of data, knowledge and information to
  bring out new insights and understanding

• Xxx.ip ? Geo.xxx
• Cpu centric ? Storage centric
• unwired ?Connected
• Wikis , blogs, search, social networks
• Visualization and Information economies
• Bio-inspire and gaming

Innovation
Knowledge

• Contextual, relevant, actionable. Tacit versus
  explicit.

Information

• Organized or processed data

• Collection of facts

Data
Internet Access, Speed, Expectations
10
C4ISR Value Chain leads to Decision Supremacy
Data

• Collection of facts

Information

• Organized or processed data

Knowledge

• Contextual, relevant, actionable. Tacit versus
  explicit.

Innovation

• Synthesis of data, knowledge and information to
  bring out new insights and understanding

C4ISR as an Enabler
11
MDA/MIO Example

• Assigned to do MDA watch
• Log into portal, select MDA tab
• Brings up map with AIS data
• Automated workflow process runs a series of
  agents
• Maritime motion model agent runs to filter out
  tracks behaving as expected
• Agent looks for inconsistencies in AIS data
• (more agents)
• Agent helps operator assign tasking to resources
  to get look at platforms of interest

11
12
Take Advantage of the Web

• Billions of of RD each year
• Hard technology - search engines, visualization,
  mashups,
• Soft technology - social engineering, user
  generated content, people networks,
• These are the capabilities younger generation
  expect to have at work
• Creating Collaborative environments, Becoming
  Knowledge Brokers

12
13
Web 2.0 in a C4ISR context
Accuracy
Timeliness
13
14
Shift Away from Kinetic Operations

• US embracing waging peace, growing influence of
  information operations
• Issues
• Increased use of Unmanned Systems
• Importance of understanding networks (social,
  economic, etc.)
• Reliance on reach back for distributed C4ISR
• How do you measure effectiveness?
  Interoperability?

14