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3 Networks and the Military
Pages 19-25

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... Further military services and DOD have become aware that a suc- complicating the issue will be adapting the highly centralcessful doctrine for warfare in the Information Age demands ized and hierarchical command structures of the Army (and that they engage network issues at many different levels. other service forces)
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From page 20...
... . Conceptual Framework Version 2.0 identifies niques, and procedures, and organizations that a networked the attributes of networked structures and cultures, of netforce can employ to create a decisive war fighting advan- work-centric people, and of how they collaborate, heavily tage." It is said to have "applicability for the three levels of emphasizing the dependence of combat effectiveness on perwarfare -- strategic, operational, and tactical -- and across the formance in the cognitive and social domains.
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From page 21...
... The final analysis of the case study noted the following four points: · FBCB2/BFT improved coalition operations, although in a somewhat limited way, by giving coalition units situational awareness of one another. · The limited deployment, training, usage, and operation of FBCB2/BFT with the U.K.
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From page 22...
... nel and network users; · Network management and lack of joint network con- A military operation consists of a myriad of activities figuration management; occurring in sequence and parallel, with each activity associ · Network security and information assurance; ated with one or more networks that bear on the outcome. A · Requirements to model, simulate, and test large net- biological attack on the United States, perhaps the "mother works before deployment; of all nightmares," is an extreme but excellent example.
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From page 23...
... (The "J" -- for Joint -- numbers are standard military designa tors for the respective staff areas of responsibility shown.) The schematic illustrates how in future Army operations all the network types described in Table 2-1 -- physical, social, and biological -- would be involved.
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From page 24...
... . research to support C4ISR and other advances and develop TABLE 3-1 Network Research Areas Priority Time Commercial for Army Research Area Key Objective Frame Interest Investment Modeling, simulating, testing, and prototyping very Practical deployment tool sets Mid term High High large networks Command and control of joint/combined networked Networked properties of connected heterogeneous Mid term Medium High forces systems Impact of network structure on organizational Dynamics of networked organizational behavior Mid term Medium High behavior Security and information assurance of networks Properties of networks that enhance survival Near term High High Relationship of network structure to scalability and Characteristics of robust or dominant networks Mid term Medium Medium reliability Managing network complexity Properties of networks that promote simplicity and Near term High High connectivity Improving shared situational awareness of Self-synchronization of networks Mid term Medium High networked elements Enhanced network-centric mission effectiveness Individual and organizational training designs Far term Medium Medium Advanced network-based sensor fusion Impact of control systems theory Mid term High Medium Hunter-prey relationships Algorithms and models for adversary behaviors Mid term Low High Swarming behavior Self-organizing UAV/UGV; self-healing Mid term Low Medium Metabolic and gene expression networks Soldier performance enhancement Near term Medium Medium
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From page 25...
... 2004. Network Centric Operations Conceptual cal implementations.
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