Research Summaries

Back Joint Fires in Support of Distributed Maritime Operations

Fiscal Year 2019
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department NPS Naval Research Program
Investigator(s) Paulo, Eugene P.
Sponsor NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary As the Distributed Maritime Operation (DMO) concept continues to evolve, the idea of Joint Fires in support of DMO is gaining traction. This study explores the employment of Joint assets in support of Maritime Operations, and enables Maritime calls for fire supported by land based assets. This concept could include Army and Marine Corps rockets and artillery against maritime targets, provide support to Sea Control operations, and assist in establishing friendly A2AD. The increased use of cross-domain sensors and fires requires integrating sensors, networks and communications to support fires between different domains, ensuring accurate targeting and Combat ID. This might include the use of self-healing and organizing mobile ad hoc mesh networks of sensors and platforms. In order to understand the challenges of providing integrated support to the Navy fleet, or our land forces when exercising Joint Fires within DMO, we develop a framework, or systems architecture, that clearly defines the application of Joint Fires to DMO. This systems architecture addresses the development, implementation, and analysis of the overall research effort, which includes operational simulation that allows the surface navy to examine different options for providing Joint Fires in support of naval forces operating in distributed fashion. This Joint Fires systems architecture serves to form a basis of an operational simulation to analyze possible Joint Fires capabilities, both from a technical and doctrinal perspective; assess the impact of these varying capabilities on mission success; and model such concepts as the "fog of war", situational awareness, higher headquarters, and human error. This study compares these potential technical and doctrinal approaches, which represent evolving concepts, and investigates possible improvements when compared to existing capabilities. Project deliverables include a student thesis or capstone team report and a final project report summary.
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