The prime objective of network-oriented defense concepts – such as Network-Centric Warfare (NCW), Network Enabled Capability (NEC), and Network-Based Defense (NBD) – is to improve and extend operational capabilities by connecting decision makers, effectors, and information sources to a common network. Advantage is taken of the great advances within civilian information and communication technology.

In the approach presented here, service-based C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) solutions for network-oriented defense are based on

- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Networks-of-networks using a variety of communication technologies
- Situation adapted combinations of units and systems,

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