India is in no hurry to sign Communication Inter-operability and Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA) with the USA, a defence pact which provides for installation of American Comn Systems on US-made mil aircraft with certain guarantees.
The US has been wanting India to sign the CISMOA as it intends to enhance the inter-operability of the Indian and American forces. It also ensures secrecy of its C4ISR (command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) systems.
C4ISR Definition of the US: C4ISR encompasses systems, procedures, and techniques used to collect and disseminate information. It includes intelligence collection and dissemination networks, command and control networks, and systems that provide the common operational/ tactical picture. It also includes information assurance products and services, as well as communications standards that support the secure exchange of information by C4ISR systems. Under the C4ISR umbrella, systems exchange digital, voice, and video data to appropriate levels of command. This section focuses on C4ISR systems that process and protect classified information for military operations or homeland security purposes. The two key classified aspects of C4ISR systems are access to secure networks controlled by Information Security (INFOSEC) products and services and the classified data resident in the C4ISR networks.
Signing CISMOA in C4ISR environment has wider implications. India needs to evaluate its fall-out deliberately.
Brigadier(Retired) Sukhwindar Singh
http://www.svipja.com/
(A Global Solution for Offsets)
Credit: USIBC News & Its Agencies.
The US has been wanting India to sign the CISMOA as it intends to enhance the inter-operability of the Indian and American forces. It also ensures secrecy of its C4ISR (command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) systems.
C4ISR Definition of the US: C4ISR encompasses systems, procedures, and techniques used to collect and disseminate information. It includes intelligence collection and dissemination networks, command and control networks, and systems that provide the common operational/ tactical picture. It also includes information assurance products and services, as well as communications standards that support the secure exchange of information by C4ISR systems. Under the C4ISR umbrella, systems exchange digital, voice, and video data to appropriate levels of command. This section focuses on C4ISR systems that process and protect classified information for military operations or homeland security purposes. The two key classified aspects of C4ISR systems are access to secure networks controlled by Information Security (INFOSEC) products and services and the classified data resident in the C4ISR networks.
Signing CISMOA in C4ISR environment has wider implications. India needs to evaluate its fall-out deliberately.
Brigadier(Retired) Sukhwindar Singh
http://www.svipja.com/
(A Global Solution for Offsets)
Credit: USIBC News & Its Agencies.
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