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RTO-MP-063 AC/323(SCI-085)TP/29 NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION RTO-MP-063 RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION BP 25, 7 RUE ANCELLE, F-92201 NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE CEDEX, FRANCE Note: There is an Addendum to this publication containing the PowerPoint presentations. RTO MEETING PROCEEDINGS 63 Systems Concepts for Integrated Air Defense of Multinational Mobile Crisis Reaction Forces (Concepts de syst`emes pour la d´efense a´erienne int´egr´ee de forces internationales mobiles d’intervention en situation de crise) Papers presented at the Systems Concepts and Integration Panel (SCI) Symposium held in Valencia, Spain, 22-24 May 2000. 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Published March 2001 Copyright RTO/NATO 2001 All Rights Reserved ISBN 92-837-1052-5 Printed by St. Joseph Ottawa/Hull (A St. Joseph Corporation Company) 45 Sacr´e-Cœur Blvd., Hull (Qu´ebec), Canada J8X 1C6 ii Systems Concepts for Integrated Air Defense of Multinational Mobile Crisis Reaction Forces (RTO MP-063 / SCI-085) Executive Summary The subject of the symposium on “Systems Concepts for Integrated Air Defence of Multinational Mobile Crisis Reaction Forces”was very timely with the current NATO multinational air operations in the Balkans. A different approach was followed for the conduct of the paper presentations. Each session of the symposium started with a presentation of the panel’s perspectives and ended up with a presentation of the rapporteur’s summary remarks and closing comments about that session. A total of 19 papers were presented during the symposium with an additional four presentations of the panel perspectives. The keynote address on “Air Defense Opportunities and Challenges for Expeditionary Forces” summarizing all the major issues and the basic trends in air defense for the new millenium. Six papers were presented during the first session on Systems Concepts, covering various aspects of air defense. Four papers were presented during the System Architecture session which were all related to the future air defence system architectures. The third session had six papers related with the integration aspects of the air defense systems. The last session of the symposium was on Interoperability with four paper presentations on the interoperability aspects of air defense systems. The panel’s perspectives on system architectures revealed some important aspects related to the integrated air defense. Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) was pointed out as being one of the major issues of the information systems directly supporting the military operations. It is also stated that the C4SIR architecture frame work should embody the operational, the systems and the technical views of an information architecture with defined set of products describing each view. The panel’s perspectives on the systems’ integration focused basically on the system integration at the level of defence acquisition with particular emphasis on the systems of systems approach. The concept of “smart procurement” is introduced as a result of various factors such as cost over runs and slippage, increasing complexity and diversity in defense systems and rapidly changing structure of the defense industry. The smart procurement life cycle is introduced to ease the acquisition of large-scale battlespace systems of systems which can be perceived to be of autonomous or semi-autonomous subsystems in implemented operational terms. This has to be a fully integrated, functionally-based systems of systems concept, yet flexible to allow the evolution of the system to accommodate component obsolescence, technology inserts, etc. Hence, the acquisition cycle is smarter to control programme costs whilst taking advantage of the evolutionary opportunities for system capability provided by technology inserts. The panel’s perspectives on mission management and interoperability put forward the concept of systems of systems for integrated air defense systems and the elements of mission management. Technology push and demand pull of the military community are evidenced to reach the goals for mission system development. The life cycle of a system starting from transformation of goals into process modelling, then to systems and finally to its management are detailed in order to reach a specific goal. The architecture of the mission management function is given in relation to integrated military mission systems. Finally, the application of these concepts to air defense operations and automation are detailed. iii Concepts de syst`emes pour la d´efense a´erienne int´egr´ee de forces internationales mobiles d’intervention en situation de crise (RTO MP-063 / SCI-085) Synth`ese Le th`eme du symposium sur “Les concepts de syst`emes pour la d´efense antia´erienne int´egr´ee de forces mobiles internationales d’intervention” etait´ en prise directe avec l’actualit´e des op´erations a´eriennes internationales de l’OTAN dans les Balkans. Une d´emarche originale a et´´ e adopt´ee pour la pr´esentation des communications. Chaque session du symposium a d´ebut´e par la pr´esentation des perspectives de la commission et s’est achev´ee avec la pr´esentation des remarques sommaires du rapporteur et les mots de clˆoture de la session. En tout, 19 communications ont et´´ e pr´esent´ees pendant le symposium, avec, en plus, 4 pr´esentations de perspectives de la commission. Le discours d’ouverture sur “ les possibilit´es et les d´efis dans le domaine de la d´efense antia´erienne pour les corps exp´editionnaires” a r´esum´e les questions principales et les grandes tendances dans le domaine de la d´efense antia´erienne pour le nouveau mill´enaire. Six communications ont et´´ e pr´esent´ees lors de la premi`ere session sur les concepts de syst`emes, couvrant diff´erents aspects de la d´efense antia´erienne. Quatre communications en relation avec les architectures des futurs syst`emes de d´efense antia´erienne ont et´´ e pr´esent´ees lors de la session sur les architectures de syst`emes. La troisi`eme session etait´ compos´ee de 6 communications concernant les aspects int´egration des syst`emes de d´efense antia´erienne. La derni`ere session du symposium etait´ ax´ee sur l’interop´erabilit´e, avec 4 communications sur les aspects interop´erabilit´e des syst`emes de d´efense antia´erienne.