M1A3 MBT and LVS-False?
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Actually, after what the Israelis pulled off in Syria, I think NCW has moved on to the "Security" aspect. How to prevent ourselves for kena-ing such a stunt.
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dun agree that technology behind NCW is developed by the civilian sector also.
Since, internet is developed and used by the military before opening to the civilian sector, i would say the idea behind NCW is made possible by harnessing today's or future technology.
Hmmm...
Lets see:
This capability may seem to be decades away from reality with hundreds of millions of dollars of research being needed before the NCW is ready for prime time.The reality is that systems such as the ones described here are only several years off (see Figure 3).Given the current strategy that seeks to leverage commercial off-the-shelf software and hardware, the time to develop and deploy advanced NCW capabilities in the not so distant future is realistic.Many operational components required for a system such as this are in commercially available and in use today. Supply Chain software in use today by most corporations can serve as the basis for the logistics support and modeling.Commercially available computer aided dispatching (CAD) systems in use by police departments, emergency medical services and fire departments could also serve to accelerate the custom application components that specifically address the unique challenges faced by the military.The conceptual systems hardware requirements pose a bit more of a challenge.Hardened and tamper proof packaging technology must advances to protect the integrity of fielded systems in the event some of this equipment would fall into enemy hands.
And what does our own Mindef's report on NCW?
NETWORK-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE
Use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Technologies (COTS)
The emphasis will also be on adapting commercial components and processes to reduce combat system space and weight, minimise ship impact and reduce life-cycle costs. COTS integration has the bonus of increasing combat system capability over the long - term. As commercial technologies mature, COTS systems (processors, displays, LANs) can be expected to exhibit greater functionality over those they supercede. The result could be by way of an increase in processing power, disk space or networking capacity within the existing combat system architecture that can then be applied to future combat system upgrades. The challenge remains one of enabling improvements by adopting a learning systems-of-systems approach that culls new employment concepts and tactics, training, logistics support to derive optimum performance benefit from the COTS advancements.
Just in case you thought that I was making it up as I went along...
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i am sure you did not :D
mind posting the source of these 2 paragraphs ?
forgive me, these 2 paragraphs are emphasising that NCW should adapt COTS items.
Never really state that NCW uses COTS items nor NCW has adapted any civilian software applications.
Words like "could, expected to, will be, should be, seeks to..." tell me that everything is not firm.
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GIYF
type "NCW COTS"
Also, look up the IT-21 network.
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Thanks to google, i discovered something.
The 2nd paragraph is not a report by Mindef
It is in fact a journal by Cpt Irvin Lim on a major policy speech at Naval War College, 15 June 1999.
1999 !!!!
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Thanks to google advance search, i found the most updated news on NCW.
It is confirmed that using COTS is still the biggest challenge of NCW.
Computing and Communications Infrastructure for Network-Centric Warfare: Exploiting COTS, Assuring Performance
Abstract: In network centric warfare (NCW), the effectiveness of warfighters and their platforms is enhanced by rapid and effective information flow. This requires a robust and flexible computing and communications software infrastructure, and a degree of system integration beyond what has ever been achieved. The design of this infrastructure is a tremendous challenge for a number of reasons. We argue that an appropriately architected software infrastructure can employ COTS software to realize much of the required functionality, while having the necessary degree of performance assurance required for military missions. Perhaps the biggest challenge is system resource management allocation of computing and communications resources to COTS and custom software alike so that performance requirements can be met. We describe an approach to system resource management appropriate to the NCW environment. -
Whoops, my bad. I must have misread the article.
In any case you said it yourself, if everything was going to be internally developed, why even bother with COTS in the first place for NCW unless there is some rhyme and reason behind it?
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After going thru related articles,
I guess the reason to go COTS is the cost, talking about equipping a large network for NCW with COTS, it is dirt cheap. Etc
But then they could realised performance could be compromised. COTS items could be without after sales support. Encryption issue. Quality issue. Etc
All about balancing Cost vs Performance, which is still unresolve till now :)
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As you said, why reinvent the wheel?
Not sure about quality issues, it depends on which contractor you pick. Plenty of the military stuff the US use after all created by civillian agencies who bid for the project and the QA basically is via contract.