Concepts for description and evaluation of military C3 systems

A logical structure of a new C3 system model which is independent of national origin and tactical situation and which forms the basis for development of a comprehensive computer simulation for analysis of C3 systems performance is introduced. This model characterizes the function of C3 systems completely by the behavior of the information of various forms within those systems. This model is used as the foundation for three classes of measures of effectiveness (MOEs) for C3 systems. These three classes when taken together describe all the critical elements of C3 systems performance. One of these classes includes most of the MOEs which have been proposed and utilized previously and describes how information moves through the system. The other two classes include measures of the effects of information consistency as well as measures of the knowledge differences between elements of a force and between opposing forces. Each of these MOE classes has both local and global interpretations which permit evaluation of the component parts of a C3 system as well as of the performance of the C3 system as a whole.