Network-Centric Naval Forces A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities (2000) / Chapter Skim
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as military operations that exploit state-of-the-art information and networking technology to integrate widely dispersed human decision makers, situational and targeting sensors, andforces and weapons into a highly adaptive, comprehensive system to achieve unprecedented mission effectiveness. ES.1.2 The Promise and Significance of Network-Centric Operations In network-centric operations naval force assets are linked together to carry out a mission in ways that were not previously possible, through the application of modern means of acquiring, processing, disseminating, and using information iSee Appendix A
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For the Navy and the Marine Corps, the transition to NCO will require that many of the traditional approaches to development and operations be transformed into new methods and concepts of operation. ES.1.3 Attributes of Naval Forces in Network-Centric Operations The key attribute of NCO is the unprecedented ability to support wellinformed and rapid decision making by naval force commanders at all levels, within a system of flexible and adaptable command relationships.
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naval forces: stealth in antiship missiles; quieter submarines; long-range air defenses with counterstealth characteristics; battlefield ballistic missiles that may have chemical, biological, and eventually nuclear warheads; hiding of organized criminal, terrorist, and irregular forces in civilian populations and difficult terrain; cell phone and satellite communication and navigation; and cyber-warfare capability. A concatenation of such threats can be met only by sharing, among all friendly force elements, information gathered by widely dispersed assets and fused to make a coherent operational and tactical picture for the force's decision makers, so as to enable an effective response or preemptive action, all in less time than it takes the threat to strike.
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Even when the Navy and Marine Corps are the only military forces at a point of action, the information network and the sensors that the forces rely on will be interconnected with information assets from other Services and Nationals agencies. Command and information links with coalition partners will also have to be assured.
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ES.2.3 Common Command and Information Infrastructure Network-centric operations require an infrastructure that supports not only the manipulation and transport of information but also the actual functions of command, to hold the elements of the network together and guide their operation in concert as an integrated system according to the NCO concept. That infrastructure, the NCII, will include the communications trunk lines, the terminals, the central processing facilities, the common support applications, connectivity to tactical networks, and the Department of Defense (DOD)
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ES.2.5 Integrated Approach to Shaping the Navy and the Naval Forces Network-centric operations will span all Navy and Marine Corps activities. Since the force components, the people in the force, and the information network in which they are embedded will be treated as a complete system, the new approach to shaping the Navy and the naval forces will entail performance and economic trade-offs among all the parts of the system weapons, platforms, people, command, control, and information assets not simply within the parts as has been customary heretofore.
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A mechanism is needed to integrate various competing and complementary requirements presented by the fleets to ensure rapid improvement of at-sea operational capabilities in the NCO mode through the spiral development process. Recommendation 8: The CNO should establish a requirements board 1l under the chairmanship of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations to deal with operations information and to integrate requirements presented by the fleets as the NCII is assembled and other NCO plans and acquisitions take shape.
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, in conjunction with other interested Navy and Marine Corps elements, should review the Navy's overall planning and acquisition processes and if necessary and as appropriate adjust the program executive office structure to orient it toward the integrated design and acquisition of systems suited to network-centric operations.
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; identifying training and education needs for those billets; developing career paths for both military personnel and civil service employees to retain and reward those with information technology expertise; and orienting the education of naval officers toward NCO concepts from the beginning of their schooling.~5 Recommendation 12: The CNO and the CMC should review NCO education and training at all levels across the Navy and the Marine Corps, and institute changes as necessary and appropriate to achieve the objectives outlined above.
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