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It is a pleasure to acknowledge the ovel all guidance and suppol t for development of the demonstration work station by Daniel Wiener of the Joint, Tactical Fusion Progl am Office Danicl Vcntimiglia of the Rome Air Development Ccntel provided guidance and support fol the work station demonst,ration, and Capt,ain Richard Radcliffe of the Joint Tactical Fusion I'roglam OIlice provided thr dcvclopmcnt, and testing of the correlation tuner The processor aut omatically merges reports and stores descriptions of each detected item Operat,ols query the files constructed by the correlation processor, and the displays respond in formats selected by the operators The operators use these displays t,o deduce t,hc nat,ure and location of significant cncmy deployments By monitoring changes in the enemy deployments they try to anticipate enemy initiatives so they can help t,hcir commander count,er them. The fusion system did what it was designed to do: It, demonstrated the correlation, query, and display capabilities in a test bed in 1981, and the European Command, 1J.S. Forces has deployed the system in a limitedoperational capabilit,y mode. What, has yet to be dcmonstrated is that, these processes enable analysts to help a commander outwit an enemy. The crucial question is no longer whet,hcr sensor reports can be rapidly correlated, but rather how well humans can sort, through large amounts of correlated sensor data t,o assess situations rapidly and accurately. The same is presumably true of all other command and control syst,em elements that depend on human skill.