Virtual Integrated Planning and Execution Resource System (VIPERS): The High Ground of 2025

Abstract

Effective command and control systems magnify the unique characteristics of air and space power: flexibility, speed, range, responsiveness, precision, and observation. By 2025, plans, decisions, and actions will occur rapidly and with insight into a potential adversary's movements. Our ability to observe, analyze, and predict will reveal an enemy's weakness and possible intent. By extending the conceptual horizon of the war fighter, we will foster a paralyzing tempo and inhibit the enemy's ability to react or recover. This paper takes a high-ground approach concerning combat support in the future. It describes combat support in terms of people, processes, and products and posits a more descriptive name for combat support in 2025 force support.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA392518

Entities

People

  • Barbara Jefts
  • Gregory J. Miller
  • Kurt C. Fecht
  • Laura J. Sampsel
  • Patrick J Smith

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Combat Simulations
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Reasoning
  • Sensor Networks
  • Three Dimensional
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

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