| C4ISR Architecture, Design and Simulation | |
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| Curtis, Thomas ORGANIZER: Curtis, Thomas | |
| This session focuses on the challenges of implementing C4ISR networks-specifying requirements, selecting an architecture, designing a network and simulating its performance under a wide range of conditions prior to deployment. Successful completion of all these steps is essential for the successful implementation of new network-centric communication systems for military use. The papers presented in this session include an overview of the C4ISR architecture process, the use of modeling and simulation to validate operational concepts, the use of the DODAF tools for documenting architectures and examples of toolkits to facilitate the network architecture process. | |
| Thomas H. Curtis received his B.A. degree in Mathematics from Kenyon College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University. He is currently with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he is the director of the New Jersey office, supporting the Ft Monmouth community. Before joining APL, he was CEO of Ultra Fast Optical Systems, working on the commercialization of fast optical switching technology developed at Princeton University. Prior to that worked for AT&T Labs and Bell Labs, where his career spanned Acoustics Research, Digital Signal Processing, Satellite Transmission, Government Communication Systems, Digital Access and Cross-Connect system development and Internet Security. He has numerous publications and is actively involved with technology conference organization and paper reviews. | |