RADAR MEN - in Operations C I C
USS Kawishiwi AO-146................Cruise 1969-1970

Pippin,  Freck,  Fawcett,  Gross,  Sizelove,  Martin,  Lysaght
Their duties:
The Tactical Decision Making simulation system, or CIC for short, executes a real-time, interactive simulation of an AEGIS-like radar system on board a military ship. The task concerns maintaining the safety of one's own ship by monitoring, communicating with, and acting upon various air and sea craft in the area. The tactical decision maker executes commands via mouse actions. These commands are then shown textually in a 'communication' area of the screen. Verbal responses to the decision maker's commands are also shown in this area - these may be confirmations from other crew members or answers from aircraft and ships that have been contacted by the decision maker.

During the conduct of an exercise the various ships and aircraft move about, some in cooperative response to the commands issued by the decision maker, others perhaps in more hostile postures. Depending upon the intentions of the craft involved in a particular exercise, some aircraft or ships may attack the ship.

In summary, the CIC system is:
 

  • an authoring system for rapidly producing real-time tactical exercises;
  • a simulation of a shipboard radar that is tracking surrounding aircraft and ships;
  • a simulation of individual air and sea craft having intentions unknown to the operator; and
  • a research tool capable of generating exercises and recording detailed performance data.

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