Patent ID: 7519569

Claim:
A system, comprising: a communications grid; two or more different types of military systems, each one of the two or more different types of military systems having a respective two or more different types of war-fighting elements coupled to communicate on the communications grid, each one of the two or more different types of war-fighting elements selected from among a war-fighting communications element, a war-fighting sensor element, a war-fighting effector element, a war-fighting platform element, and a war-fighting command and control element, wherein the war-fighting communications element is configured to communicate war-fighting information on the communications grid, the war-fighting sensor element is configured to communicate war-fighting sensor data on the communications grid, the war-fighting effector element is configured to communicate war-fighting information on the communications grid and to perform a war-fighting function in accordance with the war-fighting information, the war-fighting platform element is configured to communicate war-fighting information on the communications grid and to move the war-fighting platform element in accordance with the war-fighting information, and the war-fighting command and control element is configured to communicate war-fighting information on the communications grid and to perform war-fighting command and control functions local to a respective one of the two or more military systems in accordance with the war-fighting information; and a common-decision-execution-capability module coupled to communicate on the communications grid with the two or more different types of war-fighting elements of the two or more different types of military systems.