Trust and Influence in the Information Age: Operational Requirements for Network Centric Warfare

Abstract

HOW CAN LEADERS PREPARE FOR THE INFORMATION AGE RMA? (1) The Information Age Drives a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA): (a) Information technology (IT) increases access, amount, and speed of information and information flow; (b) This leads to changes in how we live, work, play, and fight. (2) The Information Age is Also Empowering Our Enemies: (a) Conflicts come in all levels from enforcing sanctions and capturing terrorists, to full-scale theater operations and nuclear war; (b) The Military requires agile and adaptable command and control structures to deal with the uncertainties of new threats; (3) What to Expect from the Information RNA: (a) Decision makers will be younger; (b) Organizational standing becomes less relevant; (c) Lower ranking people will have more power; (d) Innovative projects will surface without certification. ARE LEADERS PREPARED FOR THE NEW CAPABILITIES?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA460945

Entities

People

  • Nicole Blatt

Organizations

  • United States Joint Forces Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Force Structure
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Leadership
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Networks
  • Situational Awareness
  • Total Quality Management
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

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