Push or Pull? Ensuring Commanders, Planners, and War Fighters Get the Information They Need
Abstract
Current and planned pull-based systems for distributing critical war fighting information within the United States military have serious limitations with regards to limiting distribution, ensuring receipt, and administrative overhead. These systems should either be replaced with information broadcast (or pushed) to appropriate recipients or modified with controls and procedures to resolve these key issues. Information superiority is the ultimate goal of DoD's Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Information for the Warrior. As outlined in Joint Vision 2020, information superiority leads to decision superiority by providing the right information to the right people fast enough to make correct decisions before any potential adversary can react. The appropriateness of the recent military trend of developing pull-based command and control information dissemination systems has not been adequately studied for its ability to achieve information superiority and overcome security and administrative overhead problems. This paper describes information dissemination approaches, their advantages and drawbacks, and suggested modifications or replacements of current distribution processes and system architectures.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 13, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA389544
Entities
People
- Brian G. Hermann
Organizations
- Naval War College