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Integrating Air, Land, and Sea Operations: C2 Teams and their Technologies

We are currently seeking papers for a Special Issue on Integrating Air, Land and Sea Operations: C2 Teams and their Technologies.

Scope of the Issue

Military operations have always sought to integrate air, land, and maritime forces to achieve maximum effect, for purposes as diverse as fire support, maneuver, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, logistics, and medical evacuation. This integration is demanding of command and control teams. Controllers must coordinate the action of distributed, heterogeneous personnel and equipment in a fluid, time sensitive situation. Furthermore, as the range and persistence of military systems increase, the scale of the challenge grows. Successful integration allows effects to be delivered in a timely, accurate, and secure manner. The result of unsuccessful integration can be delays in obtaining effects, wasted resources, and errors that may include fratricide and collateral damage. The outcome ultimately depends on the specialized teams and the technologies they use to perform this coordination.

Teams charged with integrating air, land, and maritime forces assume their duties guided by doctrine and training. The teams are in turn shaped by the nature of the particular operation. Operational orders, command structures (especially those involving coalitions), technology, and security shape the teams and the tactics, techniques, and procedures they use to coordinate force components. This Special Issue will consist of papers that examine how command and control teams and their tools influence the integration of component forces during military operations.

We are soliciting papers that examine the factors that influence the processes and outcomes of teams charged with integrating air, land, and maritime forces. Factors of interest include, but are not limited to:

Team structure
Work processes
Information and data technologies
Individual differences
Environmental and operational stressors on the command team
National and organizational cultures
Submissions

Draft papers must be submitted by close of business on 30 September 2010 to our Guest Editor, Stuart Grant at STUART.GRANT-AT-forces.gc.ca.

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