Today's modern air picture has become extremely complex with more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) than ever before. Modern Command & Control operators such as U.S. Joint Force Command (USJFCOM) are expected to synthesize all these legacy information feeds (stovepipes) in real time and make time critical decisions on what assets to task for specific targets. Often these stovepipes present data in a 2D form that is hard to understand and visualize. Decision makers are required to infer what is being presented and to manually synthesize and link this incoming data with other ISR data feeds.

The SGI Decision Support Center solution for Command & Control delivers a new environment based on SGI flexible middleware that runs on top of a range of hardware, such that a variety of applications can be brought in to the same collaborative environment. Multiple ISR and related data feeds are synthesized and presented in one big 3D picture of the battlefield. This 3D data display is used in conjunction with flight simulators to test, model, and study various Command & Control scenarios in a collaborative environment. The SGI real-time solution facilitates collaboration between weapons control, force control, and force coordination expertise within the Warfare Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) environment.

The SGI Decision Support Center solution for Command & Control enables prosecution of high priority targets in a timely manner, increases realism and training effectiveness by delivering:

• Seamless access to distributed, complex data
• Large data visualization, applications, image, video, and audio streams
• An intuitive 3D workspace for evaluating complex data
• Streamlined local and remote collaborative workflow
• An immersive environment for users to maximize creativity and collaborative decision making within the battle space comprised of weapons control, force control, and force coordination