Battlefield management system

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

  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