ABSTRACT Modeling Command & Control Centers

To date, legacy simulations of all operation levels have not dealt with the C4ISR aspects of the battle space. Nearly all of these simulations assumed either perfect C4ISR capability on both sides or employed some unjustified approaches to take C4ISR capabilities of the opposing forces into account. These approaches to modeling C4ISR did not make it possible to evaluate C4ISR systems and their contribution to the mission effectiveness. Currently, especially developed countries are well aware of the potential contributions of robust and integrated C4ISR systems to overall military effectiveness and working on concepts like Information Warfare, Network Centric Warfare and etc. Most of these countries are spending large portions of their budgets on procuring / developing C4ISR systems. C4ISR systems are inherently very complex and as a result it is very hard, if not possible, to develop architecture, concept and tactics with pure analytical approaches. At this point, simulation seems to be the most suitable candidate for this kind of C4ISR analysis. This paper will present a detailed description of the Command, Control, Communication and Computer Analysis Tool (C4AT) that is currently being developed by the Turkish General Staff Scientific Decision Support Center. When the first version is completed, the tool will be capable of simulating peace tim