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REPUBLIC OF SERBIA MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Material Resources Sector Defensive Technologies Department
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CONCEPTUALIZING SIMULATION FOR LAWSON’S MODEL OF COMMAND AND CONTROL PROCESSES
Strategic Research Institute, MoD, Belgrade, nebojsa2008_g@yahoo.com
Abstract: In its essence, Lawson’s model of military command and control process consists of several consecutive phases as follows: sensing, processing, comparing, deciding and acting. Sensing phase is related to the situational awareness: collecting data primarily about the opponent forces. Rough data from sensors are then processed through communication lines to the higher level of decision making hierarchy. Comparing phase assumes contrasting filtered data towards desired end state, that is, using information distilled from sensing data to achieve efficient performance of a given orders. After that follows creation of a final decision for action enabling. Military decision making process assumes generation of more possible options, than follows mutual comparison of the option set according to a given criteria. After finished decision making follows final decision implementation, which contains formulation of the decision, issuing order to the appropriate units, acting or realization of order in practice, observing the effects of the acting and reporting to the higher authority who gave the order. Lawson’s command and control model is not collection of pure technical components, but include human factor as well. Main factors that bring randomness into the model are variability of performances of human factor and inherent stochastic nature of data collected through the first phase – sensing. Additionally, the consecutiveness of the phases and the nature of the processes suggest reliance on the tandem queueing models. This paper presents development of conceptual model for simulation of basic Lawson’s model of command and control. Keywords: concept, simulation, command, decision, queueing. |
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