| The United States Joint Forces Command Joint Center for Operational Analysis tasked the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) to conduct a study of communications bandwidth in terms of architecture, capacity, usage, and performance for before, during, and after the joint combined combat operation of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this session, the IDA researchers will present their findings. The session will have four presentations, one covering bandwidth for joint operations and then more detailed pictures from the land, maritime, and air operations perspectives. The session will provide key conclusions and high level recommendations concerning communications capacity and network management shortfalls, limitations, and areas for potential improvement. |
| John A. Stine (M'99) received a BS in general engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY in 1981. He received MS degrees in manufacturing systems and electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX in 1990 and later a PhD in electrical engineering, also from The University of Texas at Austin in 2001. He served as an engineer officer in the United States Army for 20 years with relevant assignments as an assistant professor in electrical engineering at West Point and as a lead analyst in the Army’s Task Force XXI experiment which was the Army’s first attempt to network a brigade size maneuver force. He has been with The MITRE Corporation in McLean, VA, since 2001 where he does research in ad hoc networking and consults on projects concerning ad hoc networking, spectrum management, and modeling and simulation of command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. Dr. Stine is a registered professional engineer in the state of Virginia. |