Binding Technologies to Concepts: Unleashing the Power of the Information Age

Abstract

The Commander of a Combatant Command or a Joint Task Force is responsible for an extensive range of missions and activities that span the spectrum from traditional force projection and war fighting responsibilities to non-traditional activities such as Nation Building, Peace Keeping, and Diplomacy. The Combatant Commander has cognizance of hundreds of simultaneous, ongoing activities within the Command. These can include Crisis Operations, Deliberate Planning, Theater Security Coordination, Political/Diplomatic actions, Exercises and Training, Budgeting and Command House Keeping, to name a few. Whereby existing C2 system constructs are optimized for the staff, today's Decision Maker requires a broader Decision Focused perspective. CINC21 is an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration sponsored at Headquarters, U.S. Pacific Command. This paper highlights the contributions of CINC21 to Command and Control, and details the journey of ideas to innovation. Building from operational concepts articulated in Joint Doctrine, pioneering software concepts provide a sufficiently broad set of functionality from which the power of information emerges. The Decision Focused Command and Control (DFC2) is the realization of concept and technology, and is the showcase product of CINC21. DFC2 provides the Decision Focused framework required by the Combatant and Joint Task Force Commander. This paper will provide an overview of DFC2 as it applies to Joint Operations, and characterize key elements of the technical architecture. The discussion will explore fundamental issues from the perspective of the operational user, capture the reality of a paradigm shift, and expose the challenges of reinventing business processes supported by a robust knowledge-centric framework.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA465998

Entities

People

  • Michael Gilman
  • Terry Mckearney
  • Violette H. Thomas

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Battle Management
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Commerce
  • Control Systems
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Pacific Command
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Web Browsers
  • Xml

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

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