The Emerging U.S. System-of-Systems

Abstract

The things which give military forces their fighting capability are changing, and these changes point toward a qualitative jump in our ability to use military force effectively. Probably relating to the way we plan, program and budget for these things, we are more adept at seeing the individual trees than that vast forest of military capability (the system-of-systems) which the individual systems are building for our fighting forces. The system-of-systems depends ultimately on well orchestrated contributions of all the military services. This assumes a common appreciation of and adherence to what we are building. Most importantly, it requires joint strategic and operational doctrine by which to organize, plan and carry out military operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA394313

Entities

People

  • William A. Owens

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automated Target Recognition
  • Battles
  • Cold War
  • Command And Control
  • Data Processing
  • Detectors
  • Doctrine
  • Friction
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Precision
  • System Of Systems
  • Target Recognition
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Veins

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Strategic Security Studies