With shift of focus from traditional offshore waters defence to open seas protection, the formation command information system of the maritime combat forces has changed fundamentally, reflecting more behavioral characteristics of an architecture than a system. This paper studies and analyzes five behavioral characteristics of the command information architecture of maritime composite formation, namely, independence of component units, uncertainty of architecture patterns evolution, variability of command and information process, emergent properties of components and whole architecture, and distributivity of deployment zones. In a word, as a typical example, the command information architecture of maritime composite formation should be taken as an architecture instead of a system in terms of its design, deployment, operation and management.

maritime composite formation  /  command information architecture  /  command information system