Joint Military Operations: DOD's Renewed Emphasis on Interoperability is Important but not Adequate

Abstract

In a 1987 report, we identified various problems and made recommendations associated with the Department of Defense's (DOD) efforts to achieve command, control, and communications (C3) systems interoperability - the ability of systems, units, or forces to exchange services, enabling them to operate effectively together. DOD concurred with our recommendations regarding certification, waiver, and funding matters and stated that it needed to improve interoperability in certain areas and had established mechanisms to do so. This letter discusses DOD's efforts to overcome persisting interoperability problems. Our focus was on system (equipment) and operational (doctrine, tactics, procedures, and training) interoperability associated with command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C41).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1993
Accession Number
AD1168951

Entities

People

  • Louis J. Rodrigues

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Command Control Communications
  • Command Control Communications And Computer Systems
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fire Support
  • Information Systems
  • Military Communications
  • Military Operations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Persian Gulf
  • Persian Gulf War
  • Program Management
  • Tactical Communications
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control