Joint Warfighting: Attacking Time-Critical Targets

Abstract

This letter responds to your request that we review the Department of Defenses (DOD) efforts to enhance its ability to attack time-critical targets.1 While DOD has developed and fielded considerable capability to detect, assess, and attack most fixed enemy targets, experiences in the Persian Gulf and more recently in Kosovo revealed that DOD has limited ability to rapidly identify and strike time-critical targets, such as mobile Scud2 and surface-to-air missile sites. Such targets proved to be elusive when our adversaries were able to move critical assets to safety in a shorter time frame than it takes us to implement the sensor-to-shooter process. In fact, the time needed to effectively attack mobile targets is much shorter than DODs established 30 to 72hour targeting cycle for attacking most fixed targets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 2001
Accession Number
AD1105589

Entities

People

  • James F. Wiggins
  • Mary Quinlan
  • William Gillies

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • C4I
  • Human Systems
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  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Acquisition
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  • Department Of Defense
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  • Information Systems
  • Integrated Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • National Security
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Organizational Structure
  • Task Forces
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Time Sensitive Targets
  • Warfare

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