Capabilities Discovery eXchange (CDX) for Netcentric Warfare and Sensor Target Pairing: To provide dynamic solutions for allocating available sensors against targets to be tracked or collected against, there must be situational awareness regarding the sensors available. Sensor capability and current tasking information is available within the stove-piped systems using and controlling organic sensors. The purpose of this SBIR is to open up visibility into these sensors in a collaborative Netcentric environment. CDX provides this capability with a generalized infrastructure that improves commandersÂ’ situational awareness by fusing execution data, mission plans and unit capabilities. This mission-level situational awareness provides operational perspective and tactical awareness of the capabilities available to commanders and the current utilization or plans for the units around them. CDX recognizes and confirms planned milestone events involving geospatial maneuvers or alerts that these events are not taking place within the anticipated timeframe enabling other affected commanders downstream to self-synchronize and adjust missions. CDX demonstrates these abilities by exposing the air component and Air Tasking Order plans from Theater Battle Management Core Systems and execution from Tactical Data Link, and land component plans and execution from Combat Decision Aid System representing capabilities planned for Future Combat System
Keywords: DATA FUSION, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, SELF-SYNCHRONIZATION, NETWORK-CENTRIC WARFARE, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, WARNING SYSTEMS, COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
