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Understanding Message Precedence and Alert Levels in Military Communications

This overview discusses the concept of message precedence in military communications, detailing the order of precedence which influences the prioritization of messages based on importance or sequence. It highlights the Combined Communications-Electronics Board (CCEB) message precedence designators from 0 to 2 and explains INFOCON levels used to determine threat levels. The text also mentions other alert systems such as NASA and NORAD, emphasizing the importance of maintaining consistent thresholds for efficient network management and response strategies.

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Understanding Message Precedence and Alert Levels in Military Communications

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  1. Threat Level minimal Precedence is a simple ordering, based on either importance or sequence: Message precedence of military communications traffic Order of precedence, the (ceremonial) hierarchy within a nation or state Order of operations, in mathematics and computer programming CAP XML Alert Level Increase… Machines / Networked devices Process numeric Threshold data Extremely well… Semantic information e.g., “guarded” Not so much… 0,1,2,3,4 CCEB military precedence: The Combined Communications-Electronics Board (CCEB), a five-nation joint military communications-electronics organization (consisting of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States), uses the following message precedence designators, in descending order of PRECEDENCE: 0, 1, 2 INFOCON levels: NORMAL /ALPHA (increased), BRAVO (specific risk of attack), CHARLIE (limited attack), DELTA (general attack). Changing this long standing system WILL BREAK mapping & machine to machine numeric processing… Other 5 Key Five Level Systems: NASA & NURC undersea tone based messaging (for blind) Oh Dear! Instantiate Data Harvesting Cascades Enhancing network management & Network Forensics SINGLE, UNIFIED ALERT / EVENT TRIGGER S.O.S • Multicast / Cell broadcast • Radius / Zone • thresholds & intensity Child Schema’s Child Schema’s Child Schema’s Child Schema’s FAA NORAD NORTHCOM CAP Data Islands NIEM PAYLOADS Combined Communications Electronics Board CCEB Homeland Security Advisory System DHS Tripwire Increase Multicast Zone Payloads Flash Override SEVERE/DELTA FINE FINE FLASH (Z) HIGH/CHARLIE DOES DOES IMMEDIATE (O) ELEVATED/BRAVO BOY BOY PRIORITY (P) GUARDED/ALPHA GOOD GOOD ROUTINE (R) LOW/NORMAL EVERY EVERY

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