Command, Control and Communications (C3)
Reflecting on this week’s reading by John May (Sensing: Preliminary Notes on the Emergence of Statistical-Mechanical Geographic Vision) and Peter Galison (War Against the Center), it is clear that the importance of the optics of war cannot be underestimated, either in their purely military application or their civilian and scientific emergence. Galison helps us to think about how military logics, both those of attack and counter-attack, have played an important role in how the US urban landscape developed as we know it today. Likewise, May offers an important insight into how we go about seeing, and the ways that statistical probability and and its related logics of reduction and abstraction have played an important role in the geological science, from mapping and thermal imaging to what we use almost every day in the form of something such as Google Earth.
Thinking back to our earlier readings, how has the work of people like Norbert Weiner and his AA guns advanced in terms of modern technology and warfare? Well, here are a few such examples we might consider.
On Guard – IBM and Defense
Ratheon’s Cooperative Engagement Capabilities
Northrup Grumman’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Early Airborne Early Warning Aircraft
UAV UAS Infrastructure and Structural Surveys
FLIR Thermal Imaging
