Information Dominance for the Warfighter: The Present to Year 2025
Abstract
In summary, it is clear that we encounter some difficult challenges as well as some significant opportunities as we enter the next century. Our combat forces will increasingly exploit our "information dominance" to turn inside an adversary's decision cycle. System of systems architectures will provide this kind of information superiority and will dominate the 21st century battlefield. In this environment, the United States will need to extend an "information umbrella" over our friends and allies during coalition operations. Reliance on large system of systems architectures will expose our forces to significant vulnerabilities. The traditional approach, providing a wall around our systems, will not be fully effective against information warfare attacks. Our systems must be robust and continue adequate performance of critical services even after attacks have taken place. To design survivability into our information systems, it is my sense that perhaps we will have to take a broader view and perhaps benefit from understanding how living organisms, populations and societies survive. Information survivability or defensive information warfare is not just a DoD issue. It is a national issue. It is a concern of both public and private institutions. My sense is that there is a tremendous opportunity to leverage investment through cooperative development of dual use technologies. In a famous 1837 lecture, Ralph Waldo Emerson asked his audience, "If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution, when the old and new stand side by side...? " Like Emerson, we, too, live in age of revolution the continuing explosion of information systems raises rich new possibilities as well as some important new vulnerabilities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 08, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA340223
Entities
People
- Paul C. Kaminski
Organizations
- Office Of The Under Secretary Of Defense