Information Warfare: Legal, Regulatory, Policy and Organizational Considerations for Assurance. Second Edition.

Abstract

The performance of essential national security-related functional activities is increasingly dependent on U.S. infrastructures and their supporting information components. In view of the dependency, and because the Department of Defense (DoD) information infrastructure is embedded in larger national and international infrastructures, DoD officials, their advisors, and others within and outside the government have recommended to the National Security Council staff that it may be necessary to initiate interdepartmental/interagency discussions. Topics of such a dialogue would include the dependency and vulnerability issues and the need for national policy to deal with them. The Chief, Information Warfare Division (J6K), Directorate of Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems (J6), the Joint Staff, commissioned the original report and this second edition to prepare the Joint Staff to participate in and contribute to these discussions. The breadth and extreme complexity of the subject matter, other related ongoing activities, and the scope of the task limited the number of environmental areas and organizations which could be addressed. The report does, however, address the breadth and complexity of the policy and strategy issues and summarizes the views of those in positions of importance to the development of policy for infrastructure protection and assurance. To develop the organizational policy considerations, the study group reviewed organizations that have a stated role in information warfare and organizations that have related missions and functions. This report presents several key organizations in a broad range encompassing international, national, state and local, public and private, and government and industry organizations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 04, 1996
Accession Number
ADA315317

Entities

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Crime
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Congress
  • Electronic Mail
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Library and Information Science

Technology Areas

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