SynapseCommand Integration with Saab 9CCIS

Saab publishes 9CCIS as a command and control information system providing tools for enhanced planning, resource management, assessment and evaluation, with functions for multidomain and joint headquarters work across air, land and maritime operations, and for civil users who require a classified working environment.

Saab describes it as a near real-time military system designed to handle information up to Secret level, highly scalable and modular to the customer's need, and as a natural extension of Saab's air, land and naval tactical command and control products, naming 9Air C4I, 9Land BMS, 9LV CMS and 9Maritime. Within the wider 9Air offer, Saab presents 9CCIS alongside 9Air C4I and the 9Air Trainer as the planning and assessment element of a complete solution.

Published functions include air mission management with air support request handling, targeting, intelligence and reconnaissance product management, a common operational picture built on recognised air, maritime and ground pictures, and resource management with interfaces to logistics systems. Published support functions include geographic information and geodata processing, meteorological management, document and office automation, chat, conferencing, and system and security management.

Saab publishes external interfaces to joint-level systems for orders, intelligence and targeting; to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems including still and motion imagery and intelligence reports; to meteorological systems; to air command and control systems; to air operation planning and tasking products including the air operations directive, airspace control order and air tasking order; to squadron and pilot mission planning systems; to air operation assessment and reporting; to land battle management systems; and to naval shore-based surveillance centres and shipborne combat management systems.

At the time of review Saab publishes no standalone 9CCIS product page and no public interface specification. The factual material above comes from Saab's own 9AIR C4I Solutions brochure, which is cited below.

9CCIS occupies the planning, resource and assessment space at a joint or air headquarters. SynapseCommand contributes to the same space without duplicating it. The information system holds the plans, products, resources and assessments; the decision layer reasons over the picture those artefacts describe and produces distinct options, adversary responses and feasibility findings that a staff would otherwise develop by hand under time pressure.

Because 9CCIS is already a headquarters-level, near real-time environment rather than a real-time control system, the integration question is comparatively clean. There is no engagement loop to stay clear of. What matters instead is that the analysis is traceable, that classification and releasability are respected, and that a named human owns every decision that leaves the headquarters.

The published breadth of 9CCIS interfaces, spanning joint, air, land, maritime, intelligence and logistics sources, is what makes it an interesting integration point in principle: a decision layer benefits from a wide and already-reconciled input picture. It remains a possibility rather than a route, because no interface specification is published and no exchange has been built or validated.