Agile and Resilient Hierarchies for Defense Departments: Lofty Ideal or an Actionable Proposal

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) must demonstrate agility and resilience in operations at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. The current Command and Control (C2) structure requires improved management of information and knowledge for agility and resilience at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. The challenge is to design the organization around the flows of information, or the management of information information-based operations. In order to do this, a comprehensive approach to information management is needed. Agility, while important, is not the only consideration. Completely agile structures may lose the benefits bestowed by hierarchies. Rather the Defense Department should work towards agile and resilient hierarchies that can recover quickly following setbacks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA463353

Entities

People

  • Kevin C. Desouza

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Ground Zero
  • Hierarchies
  • Information Operations
  • Information Overload
  • Knowledge Management
  • Materials
  • Resilience
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Universities

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.

Technology Areas

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