ABSTRACT
The Joint C4ISR Decision Support Center (DSC)* in DoD has performed numerous studies to determine the value of C4ISR in general and for fusion in particular. The DSC view is that value does not refer to measures of the technical merits of alternative ISR approaches; it refers instead to the value of C4ISR to support military command and control (C2). Increasingly, the C2 process has become a near-real-time decision based on perceived information. Obviously better ISR improves the data and information, but can it do so in a timely manner with high confidence? And what is the value of that information?
