Intelligence Collection: Supporting Full Spectrum Dominance and Network Centric Warfare?

Abstract

This monograph examines whether the Army's information collection efforts are supporting the goal of full spectrum dominance and whether these are in harmony with the concepts of network centric warfare. Full spectrum dominance and network centric warfare are central themes in Department of Defense and Army transformation literature and both require information collection and an understanding of the role of cognition empowered by networking for success. More specifically, it examines whether Army collection efforts are focusing too heavily on collection for combat operations and leaving it unable to fully exploit the access to adversary systems during stability operations. This study found that the institutional Army is not fully supporting the goal of full spectrum dominance or network centric warfare but is still myopically investing heavily in efforts to defeat the adversary's conventional capabilities with standoff collection technology and is not creating the organizational, systems and technical architectures necessary to leverage the power of a fully networked force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA432929

Entities

People

  • Bruce D. Moses

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Cognition
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Reconnaissance
  • Reconnaissance Aircraft
  • Surveillance
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Systems Analysis and Design