Vertical-sensing Effectiveness & CONOPS Tool for Operational Requirements: (VECTOR)

J. Catanzarite, G. Green, D. Jacobs

Abstract: The ability to attain information superiority over an enemy and to quickly exploit it will be the core of the continued success of U.S. forces. Speed of command and decision-making will not only affect the outcome of future battles but drive the outcome of future battles. The Military Transformation Vision for the Department of Defense allows for an increased competitive advantage by creating future concepts of operation that will aid in the speed and effectiveness of defeating future enemy threats. At the core of the transformation vision is the Network Centric Warfare (NCW) concept of high quality shared awareness. NCW will better facilitate both the allocation and application of forces. General Dynamics, under the sponsorship of AFRL/SNR, have completed a series of studies that evaluate the impact of sensor and reference system information and accuracies upon warfighter effectiveness. These studies required a unique simulation methodology that has become, by design, a new M&S tool. This paper introduces this new tool called VECTOR. Consistent with the studies’ methodologies, VECTOR leverages other simulations such as the Theater-wide Information Management SIMulation (TRIMSIM) for combining reference errors, GIANT for geometry, navigation errors and weapons effects, and the Global Architecture Combat ID Effectiveness Requirements (GLACIER) tool for the combat ID function. VECTOR considers all reference system position, velocity, attitude, frequency and time (PVAFT) parameters for the complete evaluation of the impact of them on NCW. With future planned upgrades, VECTOR will provide a user with the capability to evaluate and visualize all aspects of an NCW scenario: reference errors, ISR sensor errors, data links, combat ID, and pilot/operation decision rules.
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2006)
September 26 - 29, 2006
Fort Worth Convention Center
Fort Worth, TX
Pages: 152 - 156
Cite this article: Catanzarite, J., Green, G., Jacobs, D., "Vertical-sensing Effectiveness & CONOPS Tool for Operational Requirements: (VECTOR)," Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2006), Fort Worth, TX, September 2006, pp. 152-156.
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