Orchestrating Dominant Battlespace Awareness
Abstract
Joint Vision 2010 expresses the vision of a revolution in military affairs through the transformation of maneuver, mass, logistics, and operational protection into four new operational concepts. Although technology is forecast to improve these concepts, JV 2010 shows the prism of information superiority to be the catalyst for dramatic improvement. This paper will focus on the real time awareness piece of information superiority that is called dominant battlespace awareness (DBA). Specifically, the paper examines achieving DBA through the perspective of itnelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance collection. The organization of the early air defense organizations is used as a historical template for creating assured awareness from disparate pieces of information, An expectation of achieving DBA is naive without organizing to achieve it. Although complete awareness is unrealistic, an early and well developed ISR plan can achieve the pockets of battlespace awareness that are sufficient for the "new operational concepts". Real-time DBA requires the orchestration the ISR collection sensor at the operational level of war.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 25, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA351664
Entities
People
- Kevin B. Sherman
Organizations
- Naval War College