COMTHIRDFLT – Sea-Based Battle Lab

COMTHIRDFLT – Sea-Based Battle Lab

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Operational Environment

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ROC N ROLRemote Ops Center Network Real-time Operational Links

Sea-Based Battle Lab

ROC-N-ROL

Onboard assessment of hardware, network, and operational requirements

– Wireless LAN assessment

– Initial roaming ops objectives assessment by ship staff

– COTS hardware assessment by ship staff

Demonstrate the ProcessSystems Level Approach

Completed onboard assessment of requirements• Hardware• Network• Operational

Informal Task Analysis– Education

• Our Team: Battle Flow • Ship Staff: Technology

– COTS hardware assessment by ship staff– Initial roaming ops objectives defined– Implementation plan developed

Approach

• Determine ROC operational scenarios and sensory feedback requirements for situational awareness.

CAT

JSC

CMOC

JLC ACPJPCJOC J2

CONF

ROOM

JIB

TARTS

JBT

Modularity and Flexibility

AFT FWD

JMC

Flag Quarters/ Messing

Blue Fiber Backbone

Wireless LAN

PerimeterShip’sBridge

ROC-N-ROL

Onboard Implementation of Core Technology

– Wireless Handhelds (Ipaq )

– Wireless Wearables (Charmed)

– Head Mounted Displays (Microoptical and Sony Glasstron)

– Network Web Server (Cobalt)

ROC ‘N ROL

InternetNetfortress hardware

pathway of connection between handheld WinCE devices andWin98/WinCE computers

encrypted communication (Netfortres)

existing network

index.htm( frame1.htm, frame2.htm )

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message1message2

write message1/message2 into the selected files (ipaq1.htm,…)

send.pl

ipaq1.htm

ipaq2.htm

ipaq3.htm

ipaq4.htm

acknowledgedmessage was sent

create

modify

server client/ipaq

bidirectional

message1/message2 from op center

automaticrefresh

acknowledge

write acknowledgeinto frames (frame21.htm,…)

receive1.pl

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ipaq1ipaq2ipaq3ipaq4

message1message2

ipaq1

ack.

ipaq2

ack.

ipaq31

ack.

ipaq4

ack.

frame1.htmframe21.htm frame22.htm frame23.htm frame24.htm

ipaq1

automaticrefresh

automaticrefresh

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Potential contributions to long-term research questions

• Explore:– Metrics to evaluate communications success– Fundamental usability questions with ROC– Potential data visualization strategies– Situational awareness strategies– Distributed communications protocols– Multimodal sensory communication models– Role of adaptive computing