Battlefield management system

A battlefield management system (BMS) is a system meant to integrate information acquisition and processing to enhance command and control of a military unit[1] through multiple other C4ISR(Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) solutions to give commanding officers, NCOs or individual vehicles better situational awareness to friendly units around them and prevent "blue on blue" incidents, provide better situational awareness to OPFOR units seen by friendly units, speed relaying of orders and thus accelerate combat operations and maneuvers, facilitating fire support orders as an enemy can be marked by a squad leader on his terminals map and then have the location relayed directly to artillery, CAS or other firesupport[2][3]

A picture of Lattice's interface
Anduril Industries (Joint Base Andrews) Lattice at a 2020 field test of the Advanced Battle Management System

Denmark

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Systematic SitaWare C4ISR(Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance)[4] is a large scale battlefield management system used by the United States, Germany, Latvia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Ireland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.[5][6]

France

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The French Army is using SICS (Système d'Information du Combat de SCORPION - SCORPION combat information system),[7] a battlefield management system developed by Atos.[8]

Italy

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BMS made by Leonardo[9]

Israel

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WIN BMS made by Elbit Sytstems[10]

Pakistan

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The Pakistan Army has been using an integrated battlefield management system called PAK-IBMS (Rehbar).[11]

India

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The Indian Army was developing its first BMS, with estimated completion in 2025. However, recent developments indicate foreclosure of this project.[12]

Sweden

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9Land BMS Made by SAAB[13]

Ukraine

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See Delta.

References

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  1. ^ Carl W. Lickteig Technical report "Design Guidelines and Functional Specifications for Simulation of the Battlefield Management System's (BMS) User Interface", JUL 1988, Accession Number ADA201189 [1] Archived 2012-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ SitaWare Tactical Communication - the heart of our SitaWare Suite, retrieved 2023-05-18
  3. ^ SitaWare Suite explained, retrieved 2023-05-18
  4. ^ A/S, Systematic. "SitaWare suite | C4ISR across all domains and levels of command". Systematic A/S (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  5. ^ Forsvarsministeriets Materiel- og Indkøbsstyrelse (21 February 2023). "Ny 20-årig rammeaftale med Systematic om operative it-systemer til hele forsvaret".
  6. ^ A/S, Systematic. "Systematic Defence | Cases". Systematic A/S (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  7. ^ [2] SICS (Système d’information du combat de SCORPION)
  8. ^ [3] Digital Battle Management System
  9. ^ "Command and Control Systems - Multimission Solutions". electronics.leonardo.com. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  10. ^ "Battle Management Systems (BMS)". elbitsystems.com. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  11. ^ [4] Battlefield Management System
  12. ^ [5] Battlefield Management System
  13. ^ "9Land BMS | Saab". Start. Retrieved 2023-05-18.