Large data: New engine of military transformation

Before you know the big data, the world is a data age, and when you know the big data, the world is inevitably divided into big data times, small data ages and no data ages. Large data will affect an era, because it has aroused the attention of experts in the community, the reason for the establishment of an era, because it will be widely used in military, economic, cultural and even the thinking of many fields. If, as Victor Maire-Schoenberg said, "The essence of the world is data", then the large data age will profoundly affect the future of the world's information process. In the military, with the technology and thinking of the small data age, it is difficult to fight against the weapons and ideas of the big data age. In the face of the big data era of military opportunities and challenges, either actively advance, or passive follow-up, it is difficult to disregard.

Large data form military core combat

Large data is both a database and a "Trump". Future impact, the core of the decision military action in the data, the accumulation of data, data analysis and processing capacity will become the decisive factor to gain battlefield advantage. The real-time information on the battlefield, the intelligence collected by various reconnaissance platforms, and each instruction of the Operation command Center are in the form of data and play a role. It is these fast-changing, complex mass of data constitute the most basic, most objective, the most comprehensive battlefield situation, so that large data itself becomes the focus of war attack and defense. By plundering, destroying and destroying each other's data resources to establish their own data advantages, it is possible to quickly achieve operational decision-making and operational advantages, and into a battle victory. When large data becomes an important weapon, a new style of warfare-"Data center warfare"-may be opened. Hostile parties around the seizure of "data sovereignty", aiming at "data dividend", in the "Data Shinkansen" on the fierce competition, the result is often "get the data of the world."

Large data accelerates the process of weapon and equipment intellectualization

The wide application of large data in weaponry means that the construction of weapon and equipment will focus on the change of data processing and application from attaching importance to the development information system, from the interconnection of information system to the transparency interoperability of information system. At present, the information level of weapon equipment is more and more high, and it is more and more convenient and reliable to share with each node in the equipment system, but it also brings the outstanding problem, such as the original information scale is too big, the value is not high enough, the difficulty of extracting the required information directly is increased Thus, the system of weapon and equipment is greatly reduced in the efficiency of information acquisition. The large data generated in this context provides an effective method for solving the above problems. Large data is devoted to the innovative use of massive amounts of data, using artificial intelligence to process natural texts and knowledge representations, in place of expensive and time-consuming information processing methods that rely on experts and technicians. With the benefit of large data technology, the weapon system will be upgraded from battlefield information users to highly intelligent and autonomous systems. The specific process is: after the intelligent processing of high-value information into the battlefield network link, the weapon system, which integrates with the battlefield network, can automatically perceive the related threats, and the automatic sensing of all equipment nodes, including my emotion and enemy, will decompose the combat task highly autonomously under the limited participation of the combatants. Define operational objectives and action plans, and perform relevant operations after appropriate approval process.

Large data provides new path to battlefield intelligence

The key to gain intelligence advantage in the future battlefield is to effectively remove the new "fog of war", namely "data fog" ability. Information warfare is recognized as a complex giant system, only the arms of weapons and equipment and combat environment data, it is large enough to make the ordinary information processing ability stretched, and the complication of the enemy and foe confrontation, the data volume is exploding, which brings huge "data fog". However, there is no doubt that the deep mechanism of information warfare is deeply embedded in the "Data Fog". The "information right" of the information war also depends on the ability of "data fog". Usually people study the mechanism of war, search for the law of war there are three kinds, also known as the three paradigms. The paradigm of experimental science, to demonstrate and improve the combat plan through repeated military confrontation exercises during the pre-war period; The theoretical scientific paradigm uses mathematical formulae to describe the process of engagement, such as the classical Rand equation; computational science paradigm, based on computer, develops simulation systems to simulate the warring scenes between different combat units. However, the above research paradigm can only make people perceive the process and result of engagement, and not effectively improve the ability of management, storage and analysis of massive data. The data mining model with large data as the core technology is called the fourth scientific research paradigm. People can effectively use large data to explore the internal laws of information warfare, rather than drowning in the vast numbers of the helpless. Large data research paradigm by software processing a variety of sensors or simulation experiments generated by a large number of data, the information or knowledge stored in the computer, based on a variety of data rather than the existing rules to write programs, using a variety of high-performance computers, including the quantum computer to explore the mass of information, The computer intelligently looks for the association hidden in the data, discovers the unknown law, captures the valuable intelligence information.

Large data leads to new changes in operational decision making

One of the important changes brought about by large data is the change of thinking, mode and method of decision making. Based on empirical decision making in the small data age, decision making based on full sample data in the large data age is established. Decision making is the process of data analysis, action plan design and final selection of action plan. The decision is based on the correct analysis and forecast of the enemy's situation, the aim of which is to optimize the attacking target and design the best action method and step of accomplishing the task through reasonable distribution of military weapon. In the past, it is difficult to guarantee the authenticity and accuracy of the data itself when the war is made and the decision is not enough. At present, under the information conditions of the war, but also lack of massive data analysis and extraction capabilities, so commanders actually rely more on experience to make relatively rough or extensive decision-making. In the big data age, commanders make decisions more and more based on data and their analysis, rather than on the dominance of experience and intuition. As long as the amount of data provided is large enough to be true, through the data mining model, we can accurately grasp such complex problems as the thinking law of the enemy commanders, the prediction of the opponents ' operations and the development and change of the battlefield situation. The high speed computing power provided by large data also helps commanders to design action plans more accurately and quickly. For specific combat opponents and combat environments, the modular grouping is carried out on each of the tens of thousands of their own functional units or platforms, so as to achieve the optimization of the overall combat capability; In the face of a number of different types of attack targets with different protective forces and varying threats, the firepower of finite quantity, finite strength and limited precision is allocated, To reap the maximum operational benefits and so on. In the big data age, the light of military experts and technologists is dimmed by the advent of statisticians and data analysts, who are not influenced by old ideas to listen to the "sound" of data. By this influence, the empirical decision will give way to the whole sample decision, and the decision method based on large data will rise from "decision assistant" status to "decision support" status.

Large data drives new development of operational command flow

The increasing popularity of the network, based on information flow and sharing is not a difficult problem, people began to pay attention to the knowledge of information, and the ability to transform information into knowledge. Adapting to it, information technology has also shifted from a focus on T (Marvell) to focus I (information). From the construction of information systems such as C4ISR, overall management of the "battlefield information acquisition, transmission, processing and distribution" of the entire information process, to pay attention to large data processing applications, integrated data acquisition, processing platform and analysis system, unified optimization Management "battlefield data acquisition, transmission, analysis and application" of the full data flow Through the development and processing of massive data, the ability of extracting high value information from massive data is greatly improved, thus realizing real-time perception and cognitive synchronization of battlefield comprehensive situation, further compressing Ooda command cycle, shortening "knowing and making line" time and improving rapid reaction ability. With the continuous improvement of data mining technology, large-scale parallel algorithm and artificial intelligence technology, it is widely used in military information, decision-making and combat integration will make rapid progress, not only the UAV can be formed to real-time capture the important goal of "discovery is destroyed" type of precision attack, but also through the fusion of intelligence front-end and back-end , so that the data flow and combat flow seamless link and drive each other, the construction of all-round joint operation of the "integrated" system, so as to achieve a systematic "from the sensor to the shooter" a major breakthrough.