Dr. Harold Carter
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The success of a military conflict is increasingly determined by the combatant with information superiority. Of particular interest is the assured collection, dissemination, presentation, and security of dynamic real-time information present throughout the physical and temporal scope of military conflict. The Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) is a combat information management system that provides individual users with the specific information required for their functional responsibilities during crisis or conflictRef 1. In many ways, the information technologies to be employed by the JBI are the same as those being developed by Microsoft for its Windows 2000 platformsRef 2 and the C-130J Software IPT for its CMM Level 4/5 Digital Nervous SystemRef 3.
This talk presents the JBI concept from a technical point of view and relates it particularly to air and space military assets, including, but not limited to, the F-22, the Joint Strike Fighter, the C-130J, the C-5, and the DoD satellite network. The potential impact of the JBI on aircraft and spacecraft systems will be addressed. More information on the JBI can be found on the website of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory BoardRef 1.
This presentation is not classified, and information on the JBI was released to the public by the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board in February 2000. The Powerpoint slides of this presentation will be published on the Lockheed Martin corporate network after 1 September 2000.
Dr. Harold (Hal) W. Carter is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He currently performs research on several projects for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)Ref 4 that relate to the JBI, including collaborative technologies, modeling, and simulation. His is funded by AFRL as the Principal Investigator of the PRDA entitled The Development, Exploitation, and Transition of Computer-Aided Engineering Tools and is a key contributor to the Ada and Software Engineering Library projectRef 5. At the University of Cincinnati, Hal serves as the Director of the Digital Processing Laboratory, the Director of the Electronic Design Automation Research Center, and the Coordinator of the Computer Engineering Research Consortium of Ohio (which includes Ohio State University, the University of Dayton, and the University of Cincinnati).
Prior to joining UC he spent 20 years as a military officer in the U.S. Air Force, during which he performed engineering, research, and project management for selected advanced ballistic reentry systems, electronics support systems for thermonuclear weapons, and space reconnaissance systems. Hal has served as Project Director of the Microelectronics and Information Systems Division of the National Science Foundation, as a Professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, as a Research Associate in the Electrical Engineering Research Department at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and as a Project Officer in the 6595th Aerospace Test Wing at Vandenburg AFB.
1 United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, "Report on Building the Joint Battlespace Infosphere, Vols 1 and 2," SAB-TR-99-02, December 17, 1999, available from http://www.sab.hq.af.mil/Archives/index.htm.
2 Gates, William, Business @ The Speed of Thought, Warner Books, 1999, ISBN 0-446-52568-5, http://www.speed-of-thought.com/
3 Conn, Richard (Software Process Engineer, C-130J Software IPT), Electronic Process Guides and Digital Nervous Systems, American Society for Quality Southeastern Quality Conference 2000, 30-31 October 2000, Atlanta, GA (to be released/published by November 2000); this conference is cosponsored by the Greater Atlanta Section 1502 of the American Society for Quality, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, BellSouth Telecommunications, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and Southern Polytechnic State University; information on the conference can be found at the Atlanta ASQ website http://www.asqatlanta.org/
4 The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) includes elements at Wright Aeronautical Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio and Rome Air Development Center in New York, and Dr. Carter collaborates with both of these organizations. Among its many functions, AFRL provides support to the F-22, F-16, Joint Strike Fighter, C-130, and C-5 Special Projects Offices as required. The AFRL website is http://www.afrl.af.mil/.
5 Conn, Richard (Principal Investigator), Ada and Software Engineering Library project, websites at Free Software (sponsored by Walnut Creek CDROM) and Kennesaw State University (sponsored by the Computer Science and Information Systems Department)