Visualizing the Tactical Ground Battlefield in the Year 2050: Workshop Report
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Authors
Kott, Alexander
Alberts, David
Zalman, Amy
Shakarian, Paulo
Maymi, Fernando
Wang, Cliff
Qu, Gang
Issue Date
2015
Type
Reports
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Keywords
Long-term technology forecast , Information technology , Cyber affects , Military History
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Abstract
This report describes the proceedings and outcomes of an Army-sponsored workshop that brought together a diverse group of intellectual leaders to envision the future of the tactical ground battlefield. The group identified and discussed the following 7 interrelated future capabilities that they felt would differentiate the battlefield of the future from current capabilities and engagements: augmented humans; automated decision making and autonomous processes; misinformation as a weapon; micro-targeting; large-scale self-organization and collective decision making; cognitive modeling of the opponent; and the ability to understand and cope in a contested, imperfect information environment. The workshop concluded that a critical challenge of the mid-21st century will involve successfully managing and integrating the collections, teams, and swarms of robots that would act independently or collaboratively as they undertook a variety of missions including the management and protection of communications and information networks and the provision of decision quality information to humans. Success
in this aspect of command and control (C2) would depend upon developing new C2 concepts and approaches.
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Citation
Alexander Kott, David Alberts, Amy Zalman, Paulo Shakarian, Fernando Maymi, Cliff Wang, and Gang Qu. "Visualizing the Tactical Ground Battlefield in the Year 2050: Workshop Report". U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 2015.
Publisher
U.S. Army Research Laboratory