Are DoD Network Centric Policies, Processes and Edge Organizations Sufficiently Adaptable to Adequately Respond to the Impact of Globalization?
Abstract
Can the DoD adapt quickly enough to ensure that its current military edge is not eroded by globalization? Does unchecked globalization threaten to enable the mass proliferation of capability and weaponry including nano super weapons at the expense of the American warfighter? Force multiplication, increased awareness, better quality of data, improved decision making are all well known aspects of the benefits of net centricity. But does not increased globalization threaten to permit adversaries to exploit their own Network Centric Warfare (NCW) capabilities and also use more accessible GRID supercomputational capabilities to accelerate advanced weapons systems development countering the U.S. advantage? This research concludes that the U.S. DoD needs the ability to rapidly create polices in response to globalization created changes. Thus, in order to provide these capabilities, I recommend the rapid development of composeable policy frameworks, policy semantics models, composeable data warehouses, and intelligent policy analysis agents, in order to provide the policy assessment tools needed to support the adaptability and superior decisions required to succeed in a Post-international, globalist environment. Specifically the paper recommends policy assessment and simulation composeable services targeting: Technical & Scientific Knowledge Base Maintenance, Globalization Impact Analysis for Mutual Defense Treaties, and Nano Weapon Defense Tactics Assessments and Simulations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA457518
Entities
People
- Jack Lenahan
Organizations
- Naval Information Warfare Systems Command