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System wizyjny do nocnych poszukiwań nawodnych zintegrowany z łodzią typu RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat)

Pyrchla J., Zboina J., Zieliński M.

Bezpieczeństwo i Technika Pożarnicza

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2014

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Nr 3

129--137

PL

Cel: Przedstawienie przygotowanego rozwiązania na potrzeby ratownictwa wodnego składającego się z dedykowanej łodzi motorowej typu RIB dostosowanej do prowadzenia poszukiwań w nocy lub w warunkach ograniczonej widzialności oraz z systemu wizyjnokoordynacyjnego wspomagającego to działanie. Wprowadzenie: System wizyjno-koordynacyjny oraz zintegrowanie go z dostosowaną łodzią motorową do prowadzenia poszukiwań w nocy realizowano w ramach projektu badawczego celowego nr UDA-POIG.01.04.00-22-008/11-00. Wszystkie prezentowane rozwiązania zostały przetestowane w warunkach rzeczywistych, przez specjalistów praktyków. Prezentowane rozwiązanie wpisuje się w priorytetowe kierunki badań naukowych i dotyczy obszaru technologicznego związanego z rozszerzeniem sfery bezpieczeństwa publicznego o okres nocny. Wyniki: Technologią, która została opracowana, jest łódź motorowa dedykowana do poszukiwań nocnych, zintegrowana z systemem wizyjno-koordynacyjnym dla ratownictwa wodnego. W artykule przedstawiono efekty pracy nad projektem zmian konstrukcyjnych łodzi motorowej dostosowujących ją do zadań poszukiwawczo-ratowniczych realizowanych w nocy, jak również nad systemem wizyjnym dla wspomagania ratownictwa wodnego. Koncentrując się wokół problemów związanych z planowaniem poszukiwań nocnych na akwenach śródlądowych, przedstawiono algorytmy przebiegu i składowe procesu realizacji misji poszukiwawczoratowniczych. Szczególną uwagę zwrócono przy tym na wizualizację sytuacji w rejonie poszukiwań oraz wpływ na ich efektywność dostępu do danych środowiskowych. Zaprezentowano sieciocentryczną mapę wykonaną w technologii GIS, która pozwala wizualizować w postaci warstw aktualne i prognozowane warunki hydrologiczno-meteorologiczne. Przedstawiono propozycję skoordynowania ww. sieciocentrycznej mapy ze wsparciem informatyczno-organizacyjnym pozwalającym na poprawę dokładności lokalizacji łodzi z jednoczesną wizualizacją jej pozycji na mapie. Śródlądowe obszary wodne są niewielkie i dlatego pozyskiwanie danych hydrometeorologicznych z serwisów internetowych musi być interaktywne i pozwalać dostosowywać dane do sytuacji operacyjnej. Znaczenie kroku obliczeniowego przedstawiono na przykładzie obszaru Zatoki Gdańskiej przyległego do portu Gdynia wraz z basenami portowymi (zobrazowano go – z krokiem 1 mili morskiej oraz – z krokiem 0,1 mili morskiej). Wnioski: Autorzy przedstawili sposoby planowania poszukiwań na akwenach wodnych w warunkach nocnych. Dotychczasowy system planowania wzbogacono o mapy elektroniczne zespolone z danymi środowiskowymi, pobieranymi automatycznie z serwisów internetowych. Zwiększono dokładność pozycjonowania podmiotów poszukujących, co przekłada się bezpośrednio na efektywność podejmowanych działań. Uzyskaną tym sposobem platformę sieciocentryczną można również wykorzystywać do symulowania działań poszukiwawczo-ratowniczych.

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Goal: The main goal of the paper is to present a dedicated to water rescue speedboat (RIB type) adapted to conducting search at night or in low visibility conditions, as well as, a video-coordination system supporting rescue actions. Introduction: The video-coordination system integrated with a speedboat for a night search was developed within the research project No. UDA-POIG.01.04.00-22-008/11-00. All presented results were tested in real conditions by specialist practitioners. What is more, presented solutions correspond with the priority directions of scientific and technological research areas associated with the improvement of public safety at night. Results: A technology presented by the authors is a speedboat dedicated to night exploration (search), integrated with video-coordination system for water rescue. The paper describes the results of the project, aimed at introducing construction changes to a speedboat. These adapted the boat to search and rescue actions realised at night. The speedboat is also equipped with a video system supporting water rescue. To concentrate on the problems related to the planning of night actions on the inland waters, the algorithms of components of the implementation process of search and rescue actions were presented. Particular attention was paid to visualization of the situation in the area of exploration and the importance of the access to the environmental data. Presented network-centric charts were made in GIS technology which allowed to visualize in the form of layers current and forecasted hydrological and meteorological conditions. The paper showed a proposal of coordinating network-centric charts with the information and organizational support, thus allowing to improve the precision of the boat localisation and simultaneous visualisation of its position on the map. Inland water areas are small and, therefore, downloading hydrometeorological data from web services should be interactive. System has to adapt the data to the operational situation. An example of how important the calculation step is has been shown on the area of the Gulf of Gdansk, adjacent to the harbour of Gdynia with the docks depicted in steps of 1 nautical mile and in 0.1 nautical mile. Conclusions: The authors presented planning methods of rescue research on water areas at night. The current planning system is enhanced with electronic maps combined with environmental data downloaded automatically from websites. While the accuracy of positioning seeking entities is enhanced, the effectiveness of taken actions is also better. The developed network-centric platform can also be used for simulation of search and rescue operations.

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Właściwości przyszłych wojen oraz ich implikacje społeczne

Polcikiewicz Z.

Zeszyty Naukowe / Wyższa Szkoła Oficerska Wojsk Lądowych im. gen. T. Kościuszki

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2012

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Nr 1

94-111

PL

W artykule przedstawiono analizy i oceny dotyczące przyczyn, źródeł, uwarunkowań oraz charakteru przyszłych wojen. Zostały one oparte o doświadczenia wynikające z działań zbrojnych, które miały miejsce pod koniec ubiegłego i na początku obecnego stulecia, a także poglądy współczesnych polemologów, politologów i specjalistów wojskowych. Zidentyfikowano zasadnicze rodzaje przyszłych wojen oraz dokonano ich charakterystyki ze względu na udział podmiotów, zasięg, intensywność, czas trwania i inne właściwości. Zaprezentowano także przewidywane następstwa wojen, wśród których szczególną uwagę zwrócono nie tylko na dezintegrację struktur oraz destabilizację ekonomiki i gospodarki państw, ale przede wszystkim na skutki społeczne, takie jak: straty fizyczne, ubóstwo, epidemie, niekontrolowane masowe migracje, demoralizację społeczeństw i elit politycznych oraz pogłębienie antagonizmów, postaw nacjonalistycznych czy innych wrogich stereotypów. Przedstawione treści mogą stanowić podstawę do określenia pożądanych kierunków działania podmiotów bezpieczeństwa, których celem jest zapobieganie sytuacjom kryzysowym, często rozwiązywanym za pomocą takiego narzędzia polityki, jakim jest wojna.

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The article presents the analyses and evaluations of the causes, sources, conditions and nature of future wars. They were based on the experience of the military action that took place at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century. Moreover, contemporary views expressed by polemologs, political scientists and military experts were taken into account. The article identifies the principal types of future wars and their characteristics as regards involvement, scope, intensity, duration and other properties. In addition, it presents the expected consequences of war, among which special attention was paid not only to the disintegration of the structures and the destabilization of the economy and state economies, but also to social consequences, such as physical damage, poverty, epidemics, uncontrolled mass migration, the demoralization of society and political elites, and the deepening antagonisms of nationalistic attitudes or other hostile stereotypes. The article can be the basis for determining the desirable directions of security subjects, aimed at crisis prevention, often solved with such a policy tool as war.

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Morski sieciocentryczny system informacji geograficznej jako element ochrony portowej

Pyrchla J., Zieliński M.

Archiwum Fotogrametrii, Kartografii i Teledetekcji

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2012

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Vol. 24

323--332

PL

Zapewnienie bezpieczeństwa w rejonie przybrzeżnym, a w szczególności obszarach portowych, wymusza na państwach nadmorskich prowadzenie badań w zakresie integracji różnych danych środowiskowych. Referat jest przeglądem literatury nt rozwiązań technologicznych w zakresie systemów sieciocentrycznych, stosowanych do tej pory w działaniach wojskowych. Przedstawia integrację elektronicznych map nawigacyjnych z ortofotomapami terenów przybrzeżnych jak i danymi hydrometeorologicznymi. Koncentruje się wokół problemów związanych z tworzeniem sieciocentrycznego środowiska integrującego dane dystrybuowane w różnych formatach. Jednym z urządzeń zaawansowanych technologicznie mogących działać tylko w takim środowisku są zdaniem autorów np. bezzałogowe pojazdy nawodne. Przedstawiono cząstkowe wyniki badań nad ww. zagadnieniami wykonanych w ramach projektu rozwojowego nr O R00 0105 11 finansowanego przez Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju.

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The ensuring of security in the coastal area (especially in harbour area) makes in coastal countries necessary to do research work towards integration of environmental data integration. The present report is a review of the literature on technological solutions for centric network systems used so far in military activities. This paper reveals the effects of work taken in effort to build charts, which are integrated electronic navigational chart with photo chart of coastal terrain as well as with hydrological and meteorological data. The article is focused on problems connected to creation of network centric environment which integrates data available in several different formats. One of the efficient and technologically advanced tools, which can act in such an environment is (in authors team opinion) unmanned surface vehicle. To sum up, partial results of research work ware presented regarding those issues made during a development project number O R00 0105 11 financed by National Research and Development Centre.

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Informacyjne przygotowanie pola walki w ramach koncepcji działań sieciocentrycznych

Kacała T.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2011

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nr 3(84)

491-505

EN

The centric network war concept is the future, and in some cases maybe the present time, of conducting military operations. It is the response of military thought to transformations in modern societies and organizations, military ones including, and the change of contemporary threats. Although they largely result from the development of technologies and entering the information era, the theory of centric network war cannot be associated merely with technology, but also or mostly with structural, organizational and doctrinal aspects. Nevertheless, applying new technologies will be the foundation of waging a centric network war and computer networks as elements supporting the decision making process will be one of the basic tools to achieve centric network requirements of the battlefield.

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Sieciocentryczna infostruktura procesów decyzyjnych

Sienkiewicz P., Mąka D.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2008

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nr 4(73)

102-119

EN

The article attempts to make an approach to the impact of network centric infostructure on the command, control and management processes. The thesis of the article is to confirm the complexity of the mutual interaction between network centric architecture and decision making systems. Basing on the conducted considerations both the operational and functional models of network centric infostructure are developed according to the Information Superiority value chains quoted by RAND Institute. Following chapters present the effectiveness of network centric structures in the area of C4ISR and management processes resulted from sensors architecture and performance. Issuing from network centric warfighting concepts and approach has been done on the evaluation of the impact of information advantage and domination on military operations. At the end of the article the Euro-Atlantic approach to the network centric infostructure is quoted. The achievement of NATO Network Enabled Capability is being treated as a key issue to NATO transformation and has been reflected and developed as a conceptual Overarching and Technical Architecture. Such an approach has also an impact on one of the principal information security rules - “need to know”, revaluated to the principle of “need to share”. The conclusion points out, that the “synergic effect” of network centric infostructure should raise the “situational consciousness”.

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Wyróżniki działań sieciocentrycznych wpływające na organizację sieci teleinformatycznych

Janczak J.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2007

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nr 3(68)A

91-102

EN

The article features the conditions of centric network operations determining net-centric organisations of command system and its teleinformatic networks. The author’s considerations take into account the fact that the inseparable part of network centric is information domain, the basis of which is Global Information Grid (GIG) and its physical platform is the teleinformatic network capable of ensuring the real functioning of this concept. As a consequence of the mentioned above assumption, there were specified network centric operations’ characteristics and factors which may affect command, control and communications. Also the specific character of net-centric command system organisation was defined and features of teleinformatic networks organised in net-centric operations were presented.

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Walka sieciocentryczna wyzwaniem XXI wieku

Wołejszo J., Siedlecki M.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2007

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nr 3(68)A

29-35

EN

The development of teleinformatic technologies, the Internet and global computer network initiated information revolution involving free access to information gathered in the net and fa st information exchange via the Internet. Commercial sector experiences became the basis to adopt the Information Superiority notion for the military domain needs. Treating armed forces as a net-centric company, military specialists saw the possibility to increase the armed forces effectiveness in a similar way through radical relations’ improvement of engaged forces versus achieved tactical (operational, strategic) effect. The article authors present the network centric origins and idea in a crosssectional and graphic way (numerous pictures) treating Network Centric Warfare as the 21st century challenge. Apart from notions’ explanations, the authors feature the division of Network Centric Warfare space into physical, informational or cognitive domains or in another approach into layers, e.g. command, information layers etc. In the conclusion the capabilities to reach standards required by this concept were stressed and the USA military leading role in this area was shown. It is also worth paying attention to the proposal of measures that the Polish Armed Forces have to undertake in order to implement solutions identified with net-centric operations.

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Uwarunkowania techniczne bezpieczeństwa informacji w środowisku sieciocentrycznym

Frączek M.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2007

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nr 3(68)A

122-133

EN

The article features contemporary threats to teleinformatic networks which evolve together with the development of technical thought. Both currently and in the near future, the factor determining information security is the use of the latest technical developments in order to transmit information. It is essential to answer the question if in the Network Centric Warfare concept, information exchanged in order to command forces and use weapons is safe and if a potential enemy could get it and use it to his own needs. Teleinformatic network organised for the needs of contemporary and forecasted operations in net-centric dimensions requires protection in organisational and technical areas. Technical equipment to transmit information faces high requirements referring to information security. The way of sending information, equipment and connections identification and technical protection of the equipment used causes creating (obstacles) barriers effectively securing information against unauthorised persons. The technical aspect features basic ways of technical protection (security) which will also function in net-centric environment. Particular attention was drawn to the following problems: equipment security, electromagnetic protection, software security (protection), equipment physical protection, cryptographic security (protection). Desired directions of changes in the area of technical equipment development were presented in the conclusion.

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Transformacja artylerii w aspekcie wymagań działań sieciocentrycznych

Polcikiewicz Z.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2007

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nr 3(68)A

111-121

EN

The requirements of future operations conducted in the Network Centric Warfare space determine the development of artillery. The purpose of the article is to present the forecasted directions of transformations, particularly qualitative ones in order to ensure effective functioning of this kind offerees in new conditions. The leading armies of the world currently implement modern developments in the troops modernisation area. This refers mainly to the USA where the Future Combat Systems (FCS) programme is being introduced. It is also planned that by 2008 the American army will be have been equipped with modern rocket launchers, self-propelled howitzers and NLOS type mortars. These assets are fully autonomous and show high effectiveness, mobility and resistance to enemy activities. Furthermore, they will provide shooting with precise GPS guided missiles which after firing correct their flight trajectory and because of this achieve high accuracy of hitting the target. It is also highly significant to introduce modern reconnaissance assets, mainly imagery ones, as well as command and control automation of fire which will ensure taking optimal advantage of artillery combat capabilities. This modernisation must be carried out in many aspects. Due to the transformations artillery will still remain in the future a basic fire support asset for fighting troops, available to commanders regardless the situation and external conditions.

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Operacje o zamierzonych skutkach

Żarkowski A.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2007

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nr 3(68)A

70-77

EN

Effects Based Operations (EBO) is a concept/philosophy of effective response to threats emerging in the security area. This concept, which was developed by the Americans, takes advantage of the advances in science, technological progress, as well as experiences and observations on various aspects of combating security threats in the contemporary world. The first part of the article features basis assumptions of the EBO concept. The notion of Effects Based Operations were defined basing on American sources, the notion of holism and systems theory were explained, and also perceiving operational environment according to EBO theory was described. In the second part of the article, the author presents the origins of the concept and its reference to the history of wars. The main idea is to draw attention to strong connection between the way the operations were waged in the past with the basic EBO assumptions. The final part of the article overviews the strategy to implement the EBO concept and practical side of its use. There are included opinions concerning its usability on various levels of command and examples of its application by fighting sub-units on the tactical level in the stabilisation operation in Iraq.

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Kierunki transformacji systemu dowodzenia w środowisku sieciocentrycznym

Pilarski G.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2007

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nr 3(68)A

103-110

EN

During recent years, armed forces have been used not only to wage armed fighting but also to support the activities of various international organisations, conduct humanitarian operations or rescue operations during natural disasters. This multitude of tasks necessitates the transformation process which is manifested in the tendency to reach network centric capabilities, i.e. the capabilities to reach the intended operational effect using the information infrastructure. In order to attain this goal, gradual changes should be introduced in the area of organisation of command and command post system (so called Dispersed Virtual Command Post), as well as command process itself. The final effect is to achieve information superiority and consequently decision superiority which allows achieving an intended goal in a short time using the military potential effectively.

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Istota wojny (walki) sieciocentrycznej

Huzarski M.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2007

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nr 3(68)A

21-28

EN

NetWork Centric Warfare (NCW) is a notion that frequently appears recently in various publications and considerations relating to development trends and evolution of conducting operations. Today together with technological progress, there emerge more and more sophisticated ways of conducting warfare based most of all on knowledge and appropriate understanding of phenomena taking place in the operations’ environment. Information - its acquisition, analysis and transmission - becomes the key to success. All this linked by technology gives the picture of the range and net-centric capabilities. The introduction of the article features the idea of Network Centric Warfare. There the author explains the importance of key net-centric notions such as Network Centric Warfare, operations or the net-centric idea. In the further part of the article the author presents goals that net-centric operations lead to, for instance deep cooperation, independence in operation or understanding the guiding principle. Then the determinants of conducting net-centric operations in J. Kręcikij's approach were defined. Here several terms were explained such as tendency to gain Information Superiority, acquire access to information, due to the needs of command level, a fast cycle of command, self-synchronisation and many others. The final part of the article shows features that differentiate net-centric operations and Polish Armed Forces ’ capabilities to implement NCW principles and includes a short characteristics of the current state and measures that must be taken in order to achieve full net-centric capabilities. The need to implement NCW solutions is stressed in the conclusions.

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Identyfikacja potrzeb operacyjnych niezbędnych do prowadzenia operacji sieciocentrycznych

Trembecki J.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2007

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nr 3(68)A

36-46

EN

The process of identifying operational needs necessary to conduct net-centric operations is connected with tasks defined for the armed forces and resulting from them directions of transformation. As operations within the Alliance are the priority for our Strategy, it can be assumed that the way of defining operational needs within NATO may be also applied to assess operational needs necessary to conduct net-centric operations by the Polish Armed Forces. In the article the author refers to the assumptions developed in NATO strategic commands, i.e. Allied Command Operations (ACO) and Allied Command Transformation (ACT), according to which operational requirements relating to Transformational Objective Areas (TOAs) for NATO forces should be analysed taking into consideration the following areas: Effective Engagement, Integrated Logistics, Expeditionary Operations or Enhanced Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC). In the further part of the article the author characterises more widely these particular areas. In the conclusion the author stresses special requirements set for the command system which, when appropriate “operational awareness” is reached, will be able to gain superiority and consequently lead to the enemy’s defeat.

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Istota działań sieciocentrycznych

Kręcikij J.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2006

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nr 4(65)

125-143

EN

The article is an attempt to answer how the Network Centric Warfare (NCW) theory can influence the widely understood command and control matters. To achieve such an aim, the essence of NCW was explained, but from the tactical-operational and real commander’s point of view than from the typical, pure technological approach. Basic rules of military operations conducted according to the new concept were identified and described and some differences in comparison to “classic” warfare were defined. On that basis the author explained the main C2 problems drawn from a new concept, focused on two basic components of the C2 system-organization of command as well as command and control process. An important point was also the problem of command & control styles which could cover needs of new concepts.

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Walka sieciocentryczna stymulatorem rozwoju zaawansowanych technik informacyjnych

Amanowicz M.

Przegląd Telekomunikacyjny + Wiadomości Telekomunikacyjne

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2006

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nr 12

353-357

PL

Omówiono źródta i uwarunkowania rozwoju nowej koncepcji prowadzenia operacji militarnych zwanej walką sieciocentryczna. Przedstawiono jej reguty oraz sformułowano podstawowe wymagania systemowe i techniczne na infrastrukturę informacyjną systemu wspomagania dowodzenia. Podkreślono rolę technik informacyjnych w osiąganiu dominującej pozycji w walce. Szczególną uwagę zwrócono na te techniki informacyjne, które wyznaczać będą tempo oraz zakres osiągania przez sity zbrojne zdolności do prowadzenia operacji sieciocentrycznych.

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The origins and conditions of development of an emerging theory of war in the information age, called Network Centric Warfare, is presented in the paper. It describes the rules of conducting an advanced military operation in networked environment and specifiesthe basie requirements for command and control networking and information infrastructure development. The paper emphasizes a fundamental role of information technologies in achieving decision superiority. In particular, it describes selected technologies that significantly stimulate the scalę and progress in obtaining networked enabled capability.

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Zmiany w taktyce lotnictwa i ich uwarunkowania

Karpowicz J.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2005

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nr 3(60)A Numer Specialny

62-75

EN

The article content concerns conditions to use assault air force in crisis management operations and the operational and tactical analyses of asymmetry that makes in the art of operations a new assumption modifying the principles of its use in this type of operations. The author also presents premises to support air operations with space systems within the framework of the battlefield Network Centric Systems. He points out the enlargement of air force combat systems with unmanned aerial vehicles and the phenomena of using commonly in air forces platforms difficult to detect and highly manoeuvreable, equipped with long range and high target precision missiles. The article predicts that in the nearest future military aviation will have to be prepared to perform both classic operational tasks typical for war and crisis management tasks as well. The author in an innovative way presents the assault air force tactics in new conditions. The article also contains the systemic scheme of crisis management operations dividing it into two groups. The first one includes peace operations approved by the Alliance, the second one involves planned operations conducted in multilateral, bilateral and unilateral dimension.

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Zastosowanie technologii sieciocentrycznych w logistyce wojskowej

Wojciechowski A.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2005

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nr 3(60)

147-158

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Armed forces of the world leading armies face new challenges. The changing character of the battlefield enforces searching new technologies and solutions. One of them is Network Centric Warfare (NCW). The article presents various aspects of using network centric technologies in logistic processes in the Polish Armed Forces. According to the author, NCW technologies will dominate contemporary IT techniques in the nearest future and will be widely applied in new system of troops commanding, military logistics including. NCW will make the military scientists create new thinking in operational art and tactics, which in consequence may change the character of future military operations.

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Rozwiązania sieciocentryczne w siłach morskich

Zieliński M.

Zeszyty Naukowe AON

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2005

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nr 1(58)

186-198

EN

The scientific exploration conducted by the author focused on problems of centri-network as a notion and connected with it practical technical solutions to apply in the navy. The analysis of the system developments introduced in the navy currently was carried out in the aspect of previously implemented applications. It related to centri-network the vessels' air defence, its application to organised coastal defence as well as maritime blockade, paying special attention to enforcing embargo activities. The hypothesis assumed by the author, that the notion of centri-network developed as a result of the increasing complexity of organisation processes of the mentioned above activities was fully confirmed during the research. It has been stated that a great majority of suggested techniques derived from the past and was conducted through the evolution of technical solutions connected with the development of technical possibilities. The article codifies the centri-network notion in American, British and German approaches. Moreover, the author classified the presented solutions in the levels of networks defined in publications.

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Introduction of the Network Centric Warfare concept to Czech Armed Forces

Eichelmann P., Lukáš L.

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

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2004

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nr 4

53-57

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One of the features determining the strength of troops is command and control. The quality of command and control is determined by the quality of the command and control systems (C2S). The Czech Armed Forces are developing tactical command and control systems (TC2S) for the Ground and Air Forces. The TC2S were a little bit separately developed. Now, we want to use the benefit of shared situation awareness. The concept of Network Centric Warfare is a solution of this problem. The integration of both TC2S's is its main objective. To apply this concept, separate C2S's of different units are integrated into one logical system, into one joint C2S. Thus it is possible to create the common operation picture for all units of the task force.