Making Stability Operations Less Complex While Improving Interoperability

Abstract

Military support for stability, security, transition, and reconstruction as well as humanitarian assistance / disaster relief operations is as important and complex an endeavor as is major combat operations. A strategy will be presented, in keeping with US Department of Defense Network Centric Data Sharing policies, to make information sharing during stabilization operations less complex and more effective. This paper exposes how the emerging Stability Operations community of interest can leverage an open standard semantic core for multination command and control information sharing and how it provides an essential, extensible, foundation for communication among international organizations, non-governmental organizations and the military during stability operations. The vision, strategy, and methodology for diminishing complexity and increasing interoperability are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA486779

Entities

People

  • Erik Chaum
  • Gerard Christman

Organizations

  • Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disasters
  • First Responders
  • Governments
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Stability Operations
  • Standards
  • Warfare
  • Web Service

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

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