Development and experimentation of collaborative Red Force Tracking in service oriented architecture for tactical networking systems

This paper presents the development and the experimentation of new collaborative services in order to manage global tactical information. The aim is to improve perception and awareness of the surrounding events at the tactical level in order to improve mission execution, bringing higher safety and allowing quicker actions for protection. These services are implemented as distributed processes over tactical information systems. The paper describes service urbanisation that encapsulates automatic tracking, course of action analysis, user interactions and related interfaces. A particular insight is provided on data fusion functionality. It generates hypothesis on spatial and temporal observation associations, on different time scales to provide a relevant Enemy Course of Action. The service characterises targets and estimates tracks but also performs consistent checking over the set of tracks and observations. Results have been provided in the frame of the Phoenix 2010 experiment.