Implications of Technology

The past decade has witnessed fundamental changes in the information environment, which makes availability and access to information more prevalent than in the past. For this reason, we must develop and maintain the ability to influence the content and flow of information to potential adversaries, as well as foreign civilian audiences in the area of operations.

The Battle of Big Hole in 1877 demonstrated well the dynamics of communication, strategy, and risk assessment in every stage of the battle, from the gathering of information to the aftermath of the slaughter. The materials of gathering intelligence, for example, can literally make or break the matter of mission completion. In this case, communication between commanders aided in U.S. Army in cutting off the path to Canada for the fleeing Nez Perce Native Americans.

The Battle of Big Hole in 1877 demonstrated well the dynamics of communication, strategy, and risk assessment in every stage of the battle, from the initial gathering of information to the aftermath of the slaughter. The materials of gathering intelligence, for example, can literally make or break the matter of mission completion. In this case, communication between commanders aided in U.S. Army in cutting off the path to Canada for the fleeing Nez Perce Native Americans.

In the future, technology and digital systems will continue to play an important role in how the United States Army fights and wins our nation’s wars. As technology improves and becomes an increasingly integral part of every Army system, it is important that leaders maintain the ability to fight and win without these benefits. Over reliance on digital systems and unfettered information is a weakness that our enemies will exploit on future battlefields. Ukraine learned this lesson very devastatingly in the recent annexation of Crimea. In order to safeguard the trust emplaced on leaders by the American people, it is a lesson not repeated by the US

Military forces deploy to vastly different environments across the globe. However, two of the most important discriminating factors which shape how operations are conducted are acceptance and protection of US forces by the local population. Operational environments are roughly sorted into two major categories. Permissive environments are locations where the host nation has control of its territory and supports US operations. Non-permissive environments refer to locations with hostile or uncertain local response. Although the weapon’s systems and sensors do not change from one location to the next, the environment surrounding a deployed Air Defense unit has a significant impact on how it is best operated. The Patriot and Avenger weapons systems clearly demonstrate the disparate considerations that must be taken for implementation of each asset when employed in a permissive and non-permissive environment respectively.

Technology examples are computer which is a new paradigm. Also, radio, telephone and telegraph. The commanders and managers process classified and unclassified information by using security media, hardware and software.

In response to the threat on American allies and partners in the regions of Iraq and Syria, the U.S. and over 60 nations and partner organizations created a U.S.-led global coalition, OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE (OIR), aimed at degrading and destroying threats posed by ISIL. Combat operations alone will not result in the degradation and destruction of ISIL. Operation Desert Storm was viewed by military strategists as the first of a new generation of conflicts where victory is no longer ensured only by physical force, but also by the ability to win the information war and to secure information dominance. Given the long-war aspect of irregular warfare, enhancing and strengthening information operations is the key to mission success and

This new technology, extended the scope of command and control, one drawback was that field commands had to have a telegraphists or signal men, and that it be equipped with suitable

Since there are so many wireless telephones is use, it made sense to pull in some of the newer technology to try and locate victims in the WTC. “Cutting-edge radio frequency sniffers” from Lucent Technologies were used to try and track down wireless phone devices. [2] Also with so many Americans stuck in airports due to the grounding of all airplanes in American air space, MCSi and PictureTel came together and offered free service of their videoconference equipment so people could get in touch with loved ones. Ken Hayward reported that one insurance company used videoconferencing to put insurance partners together and was used in emergency planning, especially in terms of telecom infrastructure.

2. Fighter aircraft are classified into generations (gen). Currently the United States has the only combat ready fifth gen fighter, the F-22. The introduction of the F-35 will increase United States air dominance by providing stealth capabilities, integrated sensor information, and advanced network operations. This will allow the F-35 to act as a mobile command and attack center.1 The R&D that went into the JSF program not only created a new airframe, however other technologies including the Northrop Grumman’s Distributed Aperture System (DAS) which incorporates into Rockwell Collin’s helmet mounted display system (HMDS).2, 3 The DAS collects imagery data from six infrared cameras located around the airframe. This real time video allows the F-35 pilot to “see through” their aircraft. The DAS displays in the HMDS, the world’s most advanced display system that promises to increase the pilot’s situational awareness, tactical capability and mission effectiveness.4

The continued development of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) creates new capabilities and continually improves legacy platforms. A system in development over the years is the RQ-7 Shadow. This platform has a wide verity of uses and capabilities ranging from tactical to strategic mission sets. The United States developed this system to provide Brigade (BDE) commanders with improved capabilities and situational awareness within their area or responsibility (AOR) (TC 2-22.7, 2011). Through these advancements UAS are improving the capabilities within the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) profession by helping to solve GEOINT intelligence problem sets.

Project Abstract: The following is a discussion of the application of Army Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) capabilities which are employed in order to enhance the targeting and effects of the Ar-my’s Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) Sections. The aim is to address how the assimila-tion of assets, programs, and capabilities currently available to the Army SIGINT Community by the Army CEMA Sections could significantly enhance their ability to conduct and execute the war-time mission, thereby enhancing the commanders’ understanding of the enemy’s tactical use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS). This, in effect, would also reduce the time invested in acquiring EMS specific information and increase the precision and execution of Electronic Attack (EA), Elec-tronic Protect (EP), and Electronic Warfare Support (ES) by strengthening and

It will be defined by an enemy who will challenge our ability to maintain freedom of maneuver and superiority across air, cyberspace, land and space domains (Perkins 2017). To aid commanders, the camera of the Churchill system allows video to be recorded and downlinked to a command center for up to the

For thousands of years warfare remained relatively unchanged. While the tactics and weapons have changed as new methods of combat evolved, men and women or their weapons still had to meet at the same time and place in order to attack, defend, surrender or conquer. However, the advent of the of the internet has created a new realm of combat in which armies can remotely conduct surveillance, reconnaissance, espionage, and attacks from an ambiguous and space-less digital environment. Both state and non-state actors have already embraced this new realm and utilized both legal and illegal means to further facilitate their interests. What complicates cyber security further is as states attempt to protect themselves from cyber-warfare, private

Abstract—This document presents information about the different types of communication systems used in a military for locating enemy’s weapons, tracking their fire and destroy it in Air, keeping eyes on enemy’s movements, messaging to each other etc. In earlier decades’ communication were delivered by soldiers on foot. Later on revolution comes in military communications system and the technology developed. RADARs are developed and used in different areas of military purposes. In India many radars and satellites are developed by DRDO and some