T. J. Grant

T. J. Grant is retired but an active scientific researcher in the fields of network-enabled Command & Control (C2) systems, offensive cyber operations, sense-making in novel and unexpected situations, and agent-based simulation. He has a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering (Bristol University, UK), a Masters-level Defence Fellowship (Brunel University, UK), and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (Maastricht University, NL). Tim’s working career covered 20 years as a military officer in the (British) Royal Air Force, 17 years consultancy experience in Atos (a global IT services supplier), and 10 years experience in academia (including a visiting professorship at the University of Pretoria, South Africa). His last appointment was as the Professor of Operational ICT & Communications within the Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA), where he led a team of five lecturers. He become a Professor Emeritus on 1 July 2012, when he founded Retired But Active Researchers (R-BAR) . He collaborates with other researchers and subject matter experts worldwide, and currently supervises two PhD students working on coalition and civil-military information sharing. More details about Tim’s career can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-grant/7/605/3a3.

Publications

Network Topology in Command and Control: Organization, Operation, and Evolution
Network Topology in Command and Control: Organization, Operation, and Evolution
T. J. Grant, R. H. P. Janssen, H. Monsuur. © 2014. 320 pages.
Over the past decade, the Command and Control (C2) field has been making a transformation from top-down, directive command to Network Centric Operations (NCO), peer-to-peer...