Evolvable real-time C3 systems-II: real-time infrastructure requirements

MITRE's Evolvable Real-Time Command Control, and Communications (C3) project, funded under the Air Force Mission Oriented Investigation and Experimentation (MOIE) program attempts to develop an approach that would enable current real-time systems to evolve into the systems of the future. The project has chosen the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) as an example to test the concepts and architectures to be developed. We discuss the requirements for the infrastructure for next generation complex real-time command and control systems. This discussion also includes an overview of the infrastructure requirements for each of the three architectures that we have considered.