Buying Tools for Fighting Teams. A Story with a Happy Ending: Part I

Abstract

Once upon a time, in a land so much like our own nobody could tell them apart, a Small Elite Amphibious Fighting Team realized they had a problem. The SEAFT was sent to far places to discuss things with people who didn't like to listen. Although it sometimes led to fights, it wasn't something the team worried about very much--they were trained to accept that sort of situation and were provided with tools to help them, but mostly they had a lot of desire to do well in every situation. This story came about because the SEAFT was using a portable combat radar system to help them find people?--people who were trying to find them first. Although the radar still did the things it had always done, the world was changing quickly all around them, and the team's radar was very old. In fact, the team hadn't upgraded their radar technology since the days of DOS, the Commodore 64, or the Commodores, for that matter. The radar struggled valiantly to perform capably in the mobile, lethal, integrated fashon the SEAFT expected from their wwarfighting tools in the new era of joint enterprise electronic network operations. But it just couldn't keep up.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA532335

Entities

People

  • Brian Shimel

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Electronic Messaging
  • Financial Management
  • Frequency Agility
  • Information Operations
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Money
  • Radar
  • Supervision
  • Uncertainty
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics