Identification and Analysis of Factors Affecting the Functional Integrated Command and Control Network (C4ISR)

The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the factors affecting the performance of integrated network of command and control for overall understanding, explanation, forecasting and efficiency improvement in the integrated network of command and control. The statistical population consisted of 100 expert staff (randomly selected) from Khatam-ol-anbiya Air Defense Base. In this research, 44 indicators were detected exploratively, validity of the questionnaire was verified by the professors and reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha of 0.85. Then, by factor analysis, factors were reduced to 16 items and classified into 4 hidden factors, and then ranking of variables was done by Friedman test. It was showed that the integrated operation of command and control network from various factors such as agility, network security, practice and repetition, interactions between systems and systems, status awareness, battle scene simulation, reaction steps, inertial defense systems, doctrine and successful experiences, Common language, system intelligence, power at the edge, network-eccentricity, large-scale data systems, stability and durability, rebuilding and re-structuring structures. In terms of application, data collection, observation method, interviews, questionnaires and documents the current study is based on philosophical foundations in the scope of verifiable paradigm.