VISIONLABS has over 14 years of experience in Defence Intelligence and provides lifecycle development support for NCW, C4ISTAR and C5I Systems

Network-centric warfare (NCW), now commonly called network-centric operations (NCO), is a military doctrine or theory of war pioneered by the United States Department of Defense. NCW/NCO seeks to translate an information advantage, enabled in part by information technology; into a competitive warfighting advantage through the robust networking of well informed geographically dispersed forces. This networking combined with changes in technology, organization, processes, and people may allow new forms of organizational behavior.

Decision Support Systems are the nerve centre of any Command and Control System for a Defence or Security Agency. Every MIL DSS is built to utilize multiple data sources to assimilate situational awareness, plan deployment and actions and to respond in a pro-active manner to changing threat perception.

C4ISTAR is the the military functions defined by C4 (Command, Control, Communications, Computers), I (military intelligence) and STAR (Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance) in order to enable the coordination of operations. C5I combines a fifth ‘C’ to C4I, that is COMBAT. All these systems are variants of NCW.

Command – Development of tactical warfare planning and analysis systems

Control – Development of Control Centres (both for integrated equipment/resource control and for tactical control and analysis)

Communications – ComDF Applications, Embedded DF system operating on real-time data from Digital Signal Processors

Computers – Multi-system Client Server based Simulators, Decision Support Systems, Operational Support Systems

Combat – War gaming,

Intelligence – COMINT, HUMINT, IMINT, ELINT Systems

Surveillance – COMINT and ELINT Monitoring Systems

Target Acquisition – Fire Control Systems, Radar based systems

Reconnaissance - COMINT and ELINT Recce and Scanning Systems, Image Processing Systems