These Research Notes form part of a series of notes extracted from work undertaken by Innovation Science in the establishment of Openness and Evolvability assessment Methods and Processes. This set of Research Notes focusses on Interface Assessment. This work was undertaken from the late 1990s to 2007 and focussed on the application to Submarine Combat Systems.

This report outlines the results of a scoping study, subject matter expert discussions and workshop, and use case development for automated and autonomous systems for Combat Service Support.

This report presents algorithms that can be utilized in a GPS receiver to convert satellite-to-receiver pseudo-ranges to receiver position estimates. The report discusses a method that is used to determine instantaneous estimates of receiver position and then goes on to develop three Kalman filter based estimators, which use stationary receiver, low dynamics, and high dynamics models for the receiver motion, respectively.

System(s)-of-Systems (SoS) is broadly acknowledged as an engineering challenge for defence organisations, due to high complexity of various military SoS and their development processes. This report introduces a systems thinking-based approach, SoS thinking, which offers a language and a thoughtful process to conceptualise, understand, communicate about and assess military SoS.

Recently, a novel tilted-wire' scatterer model has been developed that can provide an accurate and sparse representation of radar returns from such objects. Following a literature review on compressed sensing algorithms, covering both greedy and lp minimisation methods (0 < p ≤ 1), the report focuses on a comparative study of various greedy pursuit algorithms, using both simulated and real radar data, with a particular emphasis on the use of the tilted-wire scatterer model.

This paper describes the Logic, Assumptions and Risks Framework (LARF) developed by DSTO to establish a mechanism to improve the analysis, transparency and decision paths that underpin planning and evaluation.

This report proposes that Mobile Agent (MA) technology could provide a means to introduce new information exchange paradigms and computer automation opportunities in the battlespace. More specifically, a MA)is an agent which is able to migrate (move) from one computer to another and to continue its execution on the destination computer.

Studies investigating the operational performance of the system for surveillance of Space and the contribution it could make to the Space situational awareness mission used the System Kit Tools to develop and model of the AN/FPQ-14 C-Band radar.

Computational Red Teaming describes the application of new and innovative analytic techniques, tools and methodologies in support of Red Teaming activities. A framework of three key activities: Information Management; Conduct and Execution; and Scrutiny and Analysis; is developed and decomposed into constituent functions for analysis.