The Concept of Network Centric Warfare feat. India
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Network Centric Warfare (NCW) is military's response to the Information Age we live in. Various countries have adopted different approaches to implement this technology-based warfare. India is not far behind but has a long way to go. Gone are the days when Conventional Wars would be fought, NCW is the new doctrine/methodology of modern warfare. This presentation is from the point of view of India with status as on Dec 2013.
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The Concept of Network Centric Warfare feat. India
- 2. The Aim of this presentation is to acquaint about Network Centric Warfare.
- 3. Phase 1 : The Concept of Network Centric Warfare(NCW) Phase 2 : NCW in Indian Context Phase 3 : Future Prospects and Challenges for India
- 5. Translates an Information Advantage into a decisive War-fighting Advantage. Information Advantage - enabled by the robust networking of well informed geographically dispersed forces. Characterized By: •Information sharing •Shared situational awareness •Knowledge of commander’s intent War-fighting Advantage – exploits behavioral change and new doctrine to enable: •Speed of Command •Increased Combat Power
- 7. A robustly networked force improves information sharing Information sharing enhances the quality of information and shared situational awareness Shared situational awareness enables collaboration and self- synchronization, and enhances sustainability and speed of command These, in turn, dramatically increase mission effectiveness
- 9. Information Superiority Shared Awareness Speed of Command Self Synchronization Dispersed forces: Non-contiguous Operations Demassification Deep Sensor reach Compression of levels of war
- 10. Operation Enduring Freedom (2001-02) Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003) Operation Neptune Spear
- 12. “The need for a state-of-the-art Tactical Communication System (TCS) has been long felt. The TCS being conceived for the force will bridge the gap between existing and contemporary technologies in the sphere of military communication”. - Lt Gen SP Kochhar Signal-Officer-in-Chief
- 13. Army • Tac C3I Sys • ASTROIDS • CIDSS • BSS • BMS • ADC&RS • ACCCS • TCS Navy • Early Developmental Stage Air Force • IACCCS • AEW&C GIS IRNSS
- 14. In the absence of integrated and synergistic oversight that could only happen if there is a Chief of Defence Staff or Permanent Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee there is little tri-service integration with each service is evolving their own path with a working perspective of their eventual integration. A vital requirement in a networked system is not only interoperability of the system under development but also facilitation of information sharing among systems that were not originally designed to talk to each other. For inter-Services interoperability, there is requirement of a comprehensive and well documented tri-service model which forms the basis for reference at the conceptual and development stage.
- 16. Perils of emulating US example Staff and Line functions Access to information Training and HRD (Man behind the Machine) Homogenous ground-sea-aerospace medium needs to be achieved. A joint HQ integrating security plan and controlling flow of info and data is required
- 17. Integrate and use what we have. Use available tools with imagination and innovation. Goals start from war plans; divide war plans into achievable modules while maintaining your capability. Address each module separately; but make each module open-ended for subsequent integration. Plan small changes incrementally, easier on fiscal planning; ensure the organisation is comfortable with the change. In each module, identify key effects, and through them the technologies required to achieve those effects. Though we may be far from jointness, ensure our equipment isn’t, as that’s what will take time.
Editor's Notes
- Network-centric warfare is an emerging theory of war in the Information Age. It is also a concept that, at the highest level, constitutes the military’sresponse to the Information Age. The term network-centric warfare broadly describes the combination of strategies, emerging tactics, techniques,and procedures, and organizations that a fully or even a partially networked force can employ to create a decisive warfighting advantage.
- The term network-centric warfare broadly describes the combination of strategies, emerging tactics, techniques, and procedures, and organizations that afully or even a partially networked force can employ to create a decisive warfighting advantage.
- • NCW is an information superiority-enabled concept of operations that describes the way forces organize and fight in the information age.• NCW generates increased combat power by networking sensors, decision makers, and shooters to achieve shared awareness, increased speed of command, high tempo of operations, greater lethality, increased survivability, and a degree of self-synchronization.• NCW translates information superiority into combat power by effectively linking friendly forces within the battlespace, providing a much improved shared awareness of the situation, and enabling more rapid, effective decision making.
- Physical Domain: It spans the land, sea, air, and space environments where military forces execute the range of military operations and where the physical platforms and communications networks that connect them reside.Information Domain: The information domain is the domain where information is created, manipulated, and shared. It is the domain that facilitates the communication of information among warfighters.Cognitive Domain: The cognitive domain is in the mind of the warfighter. This is the realm of EBO. Many, though not all, battles, campaigns, andwars are won in this domain. The intangibles of leadership, morale, unit cohesion, level of training and experience, and situational awareness are elementsof this domain. This is the domain where commander’sintent, doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures reside. This is also where decisive battlespace concepts and tactics emerge.Social Domain: The social domain describes the necessary elements of any human enterprise. It is where humans interact, exchange information, form shared awareness and understandings, and make collaborative decisions.
- Fight First for Information Superiority: Generate an information advantage through better timeliness, accuracy, and relevance of information.Shared Awareness: Routinely translate information and knowledge into the requisite level of common understanding and situational awarenessacross the spectrum of participants in joint and combined operations.Speed of Command and Decision Making: Recognize an information advantage and convert it into a competitive advantage by creating processes and procedures otherwise impossible (within prudent risk).Self-Synchronization: Increase the opportunity for low-level forces to operate nearly autonomously and to re-task themselves through exploitation of shared awareness and the commander’s intent.Dispersed Forces: Move combat power from the linear battlespace to non-contiguous operations.Demassification: Move from an approach based on geographically contiguous massing of forces to one based upon achieving effects.Deep Sensor Reach: Expand use of deployable, distributed, and networked sensors, both distant and proximate, that detect actionable information on items of interest at operationally relevant ranges to achieve decisive effects.Compressed Operations and Levels of War: Eliminate procedural boundaries between Services and within processes so that joint operations are conducted at the lowest organizational levels possible to achieve rapid and decisive effects.
- OEF : USCENTCOM employed Special Operations Forces (SOF) teams on the ground working directly with Afghan allies. These SOF elements were networked with other friendly forces on the ground and U.S. aircraft capable of delivering advanced precision-guided munitions. This combination proved extremely effective. The ability to pass information gathered by Predator and Global Hawk UAVs to ground commanders in Afghanistan enabled near-real-time battlefield situational awareness.
- The fulcrum of net-centricity being developed by the Indian Army is actually what is generally referred to as the Tac C3I System (Tactical Command, Control, Communications and Information System).Army Strategic Operational Information Dissemination System (ASTROIDS) is a secure information dissemination system which connects Army Headquarters with Command and Corps Headquarters for exchange of terrain, operations intelligence and logistics information. Command Information and Decision Support System (CIDSS) is the hub centre of tactical C3I which connects Corps headquarters to infantry battalion. It has computer nodes linked through suitable communication media and provides processed information to commanders and staff on terrain, operational, intelligence and logistics functions for decision making. Battlefield Support System (BSS) has been developed to provide an automated data fusion of surveillance devices and operational information system to commanders at field force level so as to facilitate decision making in battle in near real time. Artillery Combat Command and Control System (ACCCS) and Air Defence Control and Reporting System (ADC&RS) are in their advance stage of development. IACCCS - The complete system is being established under a two-phase programme costing Rs 160 billion designed as a robust, survivable network-centric C4I3 infrastructure that will receive direct real-time feeds from existing space-based overhead reconnaissance satellites, ground-based and aerostat-mounted ballistic missile early warning radars and high-altitude-long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles, and manned airborne early warning & control (AEW & C) platformsThe Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS) is an autonmous regional GPS based satellite navigation system being developed by the ISRO.The GIS provides spatial information platform such as digital maps, digital elevation maps and satellite images to visualise the operational scenario. This enable the disposition of enemy deployments and better planning of own forces’ deployment.
- Brig GurmeetKanwal (Retd), Director CLAWS