TARGETING IN COMMAND AND CONTROL OF FIELD ARTILLERY

2012 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Tomasz CAŁKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Control Process ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Decision Problems ◽  
Control Procedures ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future

One of the most significant issues in exercising command and control is the implementation of such methods and procedures that could enable the most effective use of field artillery capabilities. One of these methods is targeting. This process has been implemented in the Command and Control Procedures of the Polish Armed Forces for several years.This article focuses on the targeting process in the Land Forces. Special attention is paid to the functions involved in this process and its significance in the command and control process. Assuming that in the near future the implementation of this process will become fact, a number of organizational and procedural arrangements in field artillery will have to change. Therefore, the article mainly attempts to determine the impact of targeting on specific aspects of the command and control of field artillery in order to identify problem areas where these changes may be necessary. As a result, the focus is on the decision problems solved as part of targeting and organizational considerations.

scholarly journals The Lessons Learned Process in the Czech Armed Forces

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Janka Kosecová ◽  
Monika Grasseová-Motyčková
Keyword(s):  
Process Optimization ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Current State ◽  
Standard Part ◽  
And Control ◽  
Functional Areas ◽  
The Way

Abstract The Lessons Learned Process was introduced in the Czech Armed Forces in 2004. Since then the LL process has become a standard part of the command and control process as well as one of the tools generating input to abilities development of units, formations, and staffs at all levels. The LL process allows to learn from both own and others’ mistakes; it also allows to use the best general procedures in all functional areas of development and deployment of armed forces. Not only does the article describe achievements, it also focuses on barriers which impede the efficient development of the system and the LL process. The focus of the article lies in the LL process current state analysis; here the authors come to the conclusion that one of the main problems is that commanders misunderstand the LL process. Another obstacle is the way the identified LL are analysed at the strategic level of command. In the conclusion, recommendations describing the way the identified barriers can be overcome and thus ensure further process optimization are presented.

Using Work Domain Analysis to Evaluate the Impact of Digitization on Command and Control

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Jenkins ◽  
Neville A. Stanton ◽  
Paul M. Salmon ◽  
Guy H. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Command And Control ◽  
Domain Analysis ◽  
Work Domain Analysis ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work Domain

U.S. Regulatory Approaches: A Critical Appraisal

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
R. L. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Treatment Technologies ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

The American approach to environmental regulation is characterized by fragmentation of responsibilities, primary reliance on command and control regulations, extraordinary complexity, a preference for identifiable standards, and heavy resort to litigation. This system has provided important benefits, including significant reduction of environmental contamination, substantial use of science in decision-making, broad participatory rights, and the stimulation of new treatment technologies. However, these gains have been achieved at excessive cost. Too much reliance is placed on command and control methods and especially on technology-based standards. There is too much resort to litigation, and inadequate input from science. Participatory rights are being undermined, and there is a poor allocation of decision-making among the federal agencies and the states. Over-regulation sometimes leads to under-regulation, and insufficient attention is given to the impact on small entities. The responsibility for these difficulties rests with everyone, including the federal agencies, the Congress, the general public and the courts. Changes in the regulatory system are needed. We should abandon the use of technology-based standards to control toxic substances under the Clean Water Act in favor of strong health- and environmentally based standards, coupled with taxes on toxic substances in wastewater.

Poland

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew A. Michta
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Territorial Defence ◽  
Eastern Flank ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Command And Control System ◽  
T State

This chapter analyses the adaptation of Poland’s defence policy and armed forces to the rapidly changing security environment along NATO’s north-eastern flank. First, it examines the impact of a resurgent Russia on Poland’s security calculus, especially since Russia’s seizure of Crimea and the war in eastern Ukraine. Next, it addresses the evolution of Warsaw’s views on the relative utility of NATO and the European Union and its efforts to return NATO to its traditional territorial defence role. It then focuses on the modernization of Poland’s armed forces, with a special emphasis on doctrinal change, the reform of the command and control system, and the creation of the Territorial Defence units. It also reviews the t state of key hardware purchases as of mid-2017. The chapter concludes with an overall assessment of the level of capabilities and the readiness of the armed forces in the changing threat environment along NATO’s north-eastern flank.

Nurturing an emergent city: parade making as a cultural trope for urban policy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Symons
Keyword(s):  
Urban Policy ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City ◽  
Held Back

This chapter argues for an ‘emergent city’ urban policy, inspired by organisers of civic parade in Manchester which involved over 1,800 participants from 90 community groups. The analysis compares the top-down, command-and-control process of cultural strategy development in the city with the nurturing emergent approach of the organisers commissioned by the council to produce a civic parade. Drawing on parade making as a cultural trope, the chapter describes how the parade makers held back, allowing the parade shape to develop rather than over-directing it. It suggests that city decision makers can learn from this restrained approach.

Networked Operations

2014 ◽  
pp. 49-70
Author(s):  
E. J. de Waard
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Design ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Network Centric Operations ◽  
The Many ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
And Control

Decentralized, peer-to-peer command and control is a key principle of network-centric operations that has received a lot of scholarly attention. So far, robust networking, another principle, has remained rather underexposed in the academic debate. This chapter introduces theory on modular organizing to start a discourse on network robustness from an organizational design perspective. Above all, the chapter makes clear that the level of system decomposition influences the command and control process of composite military structures. When military organizations follow a fine-grained modularization approach, the structure of a task force deployed may become complex, asking for extra coordination mechanisms to achieve syntheses between the many contributing functional organizational components. In addition, it is argued that modularity's principle of near-decomposability has to be incorporated into the available mathematical models on network-centric operations. A point of concern, in this respect, is that the current modeling parameters make no clear distinction between the different types of actors—or nodes—in a military network structure, whereas in reality, technological, organizational, and human actors all live by their own specific rules.

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