This report presents an approach to making future command and control data more timely and robust through the use of replicated distributed data management techniques. The report includes "situational awareness" data needed by Army tactical commanders from platoon through corps, including mission plan and progress, represented as machine-processable operation orders, enemy situation, and friendly situation and status. The conceptual solution described in the report would give war fighters near-real-time common pictures of the battlefield for situational awareness in spite of communication delays due to jamming and congestion, network partitioning, node failures, and other hostile actions that might interfere with the rapid dissemination of data. .

"Arroyo Center"--T.p. "National Defense Research Institute"--T.p. "Prepared for the United States Army and Advanced Research Projects Agency"--T.p.

Summary -- Acronyms -- Introduction and background -- Approach to replicated databases for robust command and control -- Research issues and future directions -- Appendix: transaction processing and concurrency control.