Jane's C4I Systems

Jane's C4I Systems offers the most current analysis of the intelligence operations supporting the world's armed forces at all key levels of command - strategic, operational and tactical.

This year's entries includes:

• Detailed and accurate equipment and systems descriptions 
• Development and operational status 
• Software and hardware 
• Technical specifications 
• Manufacturers' list

Jane's C4I Systems helps you:

• Support your defense or security operations 
• Assess opponents' defense and security operations 
• Keep apprised of the latest technology
• Locate suppliers

The contents of Jane's C4I Systems include:

• Command information systems 
• Communications systems 
• Intelligence-gathering systems 
• Computing systems both software and hardware 
• Manufacturers' contact details

Jane's C4I Systems is available in three formats:

• Online 
• Yearbook 
• Offline data feed

The online format provides you with many benefits not available with the yearbook, including:

• Continuous online updates 
• Full search capabilities 
• A minimum five-year archive 
• Exclusive access to Excel spreadsheet containing key inventory data

Lt Col Giles Ebbutt MA RM (retd)
Giles Ebbutt was educated at Magdalen College School and Merton College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Marines in 1971 and his early service was in 45 Commando RM, including Arctic Warfare training in Norway.

Having specialized as a Signals Officer in 1978, he went on to hold a variety of communications appointments during his military career, including that of communications staff officer of 3 Commando Brigade and command of both 3 Commando Brigade Headquarters and Signal Squadron and the Royal Marines Signal Training Wing, as well as an exchange posting with the Army at the Royal School of Signals, Blandford. He attended the Army Staff College at Camberley in 1985-86, and subsequent appointments, outside communications, included Fleet Amphibious Intelligence officer on the staff of Commander-in-Chief Fleet and within the Directorate of Naval Operations in the Ministry of Defence. In late 1996 he commanded the multi-national training team in the Baltic States as part of the Baltic Battalion project.

Giles Ebbutt retired from the Royal Marines in 1999 and very soon after was appointed editor of Jane's C4I Systems. More recently, in October 2006, he was also appointed editor of Jane's Simulation and Training Systems.
He is a regular contributor to Jane's Defence Weekly and Jane's International Defence Review, and was co-editor of Jane's World Armies 2005-2006. Giles is married with two daughters and currently lives outside Plymouth.