Evaluation of Organizational Designs with Network-Centric Philosophy

Abstract

The concept of network-centric warfare (NCW) is an evolving construct that has altered the military organizational landscapes. In the asymmetric information domains, there are few studies that actually relate the daily agitations of each of the command centers to the vulnerability of the entire C2 structure. In addition, there are no existing studies that use daily events and incidents to understand the vulnerabilities of each organizational structure. This paper reports on the use of network and organizational theories to derive vulnerabilities of organizational structures based on probabilistic events on each C2 center. Vulnerability is calculated as a function of information surprisal. The results of an empirical study comparing organizational structure designs in terms of vulnerabilities are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA486976

Entities

People

  • Celestine A. Ntuen
  • Eui H. Park
  • Kim Gwang-myung

Organizations

  • North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Basic Programming Language
  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Equations
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Neural Networks
  • North Carolina
  • Organizational Structure
  • Reliability
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vulnerability
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.