Het lukt ons niet de sociale samenhang in Nederland te versterken. Met deze bijdrage wil de auteur onderzoeken of, en in hoeverre, de invoering van een Sociaal-culturele Service een bijdrage kan leveren aan het versterken van de sociale samenhang.

The authors discuss the need for a C4I architecture for the Netherlands armed forces and list the progress that has been made up to now. Several challenges are identified, such as unique real-time requirements, interoperability and agility and unique security requirements.

In this paper the authors describe the iTasks workflow system. The iTasks system is a software library written in the declarative programming language Clean, which allows for the highlevel specification of multi-user workflows. An important advantage of the iTasks system above commercially available …

In this issue, the members of the Combat Systems Department inform the defence community and (military) research institutes about their current and future research projects. The contributions cover a large part of the field of technological academic research that military organisations require

De Nederlandse krijgsmacht kampt met een chronisch tekort aan personeel. ‘De tekorten hebben invloed op de inzetgereedheid en als verbetering uitblijft, komt op termijn de uitvoering van operationele taken in het geding’, aldus staatssecretaris van Defensie J. de Vries. Leger en vloot hebben in het verleden ook …

In juli 2007 kondigde de minister van Defensie aan dat hij, vanwege de kosten van de inzet in Uruzgan, wilde snijden in een aantal belangrijke wapensystemen. De helft van de opbrengst zou worden gebruikt om het exploitatietekort te verminderen. Bij gelijkblijvende ambities leiden dergelijke ingrepen …

The capabilities inherent in small naval forces are examined, using the Royal Netherlands Navy as a case study. International partnerships and effective strategies for control of littoral, estuarine and riverine areas are ways in which a small navy can make the most of limited resources.

Orienting paper about kinetic non-lethal weapons. One of its purposes is to help the non-specialist reader better understand scientific and technological aspects of these new weapon systems. Physical parameters and experimental methods are reviewed. Performance tests of two existing non-lethal weapon …

This paper describes research into generic sensor management principles that enable the development of a support system that is capable of bridging the growing gap between the available knowledge and the required sensor management related knowledge

The authors investigate performance of sensor selection schemes in a target tracking scenario. In current NLDA research on air and surface picture compilation with a network of naval radar systems a sensor selection approach is based on the Particle Filter target tracking technique and a minimisation …