Control of the Spectrum via Dominant Spectrum Knowledge Enables Information Superiority.

Abstract

Joint Vision 2010 relies on the principle of Information Superiority to enable its tenets of Dominant Maneuver, Precision Engagement, Focused Logistics and Full-Dimensional Protection and gain Full Spectrum Dominance. Information Superiority relies on the uninterrupted flow of information from source to destination, more often than not via the electromagnetic spectrum. The current spectrum strategy and the one currently in draft focus primarily on what Arthur F. Lykke, Jr. would describe as the means and the end, but neglecting the key component of the ways - those concepts which tie the means together, focusing them to accomplish the end. This paper proposes the two concepts of: 1) Dominant Spectrum Knowledge; to focus the automation efforts of the services and joint community, and 2) Spectrum Rules of Engagement; to focus the tactics, techniques and procedures of the services and joint community to control, as opposed to just manage, the spectrum battlespace.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 07, 1999
Accession Number
ADA364077

Entities

People

  • Joseph P. Yavorsky

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Command Control Communications And Computer Systems
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electromagnetic Spectra
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Law
  • Mobile Phones
  • National Security
  • United States
  • United States European Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.