The proliferation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) information is radically changing the landscape of the defense and intelligence community. Countries are now following a strategy of information superiority to defend against a broad range of multi-domain threats, whether they be asymmetrical, insurgent, nuclear or mass armies.
A herculean effort has been directed at collecting data through satellites, unmanned vehicles and the monitoring of social media and other information sources. The processing and analysis of this information happens in a secure command and control operations center, often with joint and coalition forces (across branches as well as countries) working together. The number and size of these centers is growing exponentially throughout the world.
The current focus of the men and women who design and operate these command centers is “Achieving Instant Situational Awareness;” that is, “how can I use the ISR information sources available to me to give me a full and instant picture of the situation to better support the warfighter?”
Typical mainstream IT and AV technologies are not designed for these types of multi-domain applications and are not efficient in delivering multiple sources of information when they are at multiple classifications. Organizations typically need to invest in, maintain, and manage multiple separate and parallel data infrastructures – one system for each network or classification – to accomplish this capability and meet demanding Information Assurance (IA) standards.
Thinklogical’s uniquely secure KVM and video distribution solution resolves this issue, creating a highly-efficient and flexible environment where any source of information may be instantaneously displayed at any end point, while giving the administrator the ability to restrict a source from being displayed as the need arises. As such, Thinklogical is the technology that is being used across the world in hundreds of these centers today.
A next-generation command and control infrastructure solution such as from Thinklogical simplifies this multi-classification architecture and allows these defense and intelligence organizations to streamline their IT needs. This provides the ability to quickly share information among teams and be more flexible to address rapidly-changing mission requirements.
- Achieve information superiority and instant situational awareness through and immediate access to critical video and data resources via “any-to-any” switching
- Get a more accurate picture of the multi-domain battlespace and make faster, better-informed decisions
- Simplify management of multiple classifications of information through a single IA (information assurance) accredited secure infrastructure
- Increase the cyber security profile of command and control facilities while mitigating the threat of intentional or accidental breach, hack or data loss by insiders
- Future-proof video, audio, and computer signal distribution systems to support advances in technology, including 4K/8K resolutions and HDR, virtualization, cloud, etc.
- Enable flexible and rapid reconfiguration of command and control resources to quickly adapt to dynamic mission requirements
- Reduce up-front IT and AV infrastructure expense while lowering long-term total cost of ownership (TCO)
To summarize: Thinklogical helps organizations make faster and better informed decisions by delivering accurate data quickly and securely to the people and groups who need it most.