Fiscal Year	2023
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Johnson, Bonnie W.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	A tenet of the Navy and Marine Corps' vision for future operating environments is the ability to operate inside actively contested maritime spaces in support of the fleet. This requires the ability to perform command and control (C2) in a degraded and emissions controlled (EMCON) environment. C2 for Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) relies on information exchange between the fleet and forward-deployed forces that includes mission commands, commanders' intent, and baseline situation awareness. Current U.S. communication equipment is "loud" in the Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS), and therefore potentially visible to adversaries, and the shared information is vulnerable to exploitation. This project will study DMO and EABO communication requirements for mission effectiveness - identifying the information whose mission-criticality of being shared exceeds the risks of adversary detection. The project will develop a risk analysis framework for evaluating the risk of communication during DMO and EABO EMCON conditions and will conduct an evaluation of a set of mission scenarios. The project will explore innovative solutions for low probability of detection (LPD) and low probability of interception (LPI) communications.
Keywords	EMCON, LPI, LPD, TACSIT, risk, DMO, EABO
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