| Feasibility of a Dynamic Data Rate Satellite Link for Inmarsat |
JUN 2007 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
John F. Boseman; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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 | Inmarsat is a predominantly commercial satellite system fitted on most United States Navy surface vessels including: frigates, cruisers, destroyers, amphibious ships and mine sweepers. It is primarily used for telephone, fax, email, web browsing, and the Global Command and Control System (GCCS). Inmarsat, however, has a very limited data rate. For ships fitted with the latest modem upgrade, Inmarsat provides a meager 128 kbps for support of its numerous functions. ... |
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| Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa: Winning the War on Terror with Information Engagement |
JUN 2007 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
Michelle M. Garcia; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) has developed a course of action (COA) to win the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) in the Horn of Africa. Because of the mission, the resources available to the task force, and the nature of the conflict, the command chose a COA that uses Information Operations (IO) as the decisive strategy. Specifically, they have focused on the IO task of Information Engagement to ... |
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| Cohesion in a Multinational Coalition Center |
JUN 2007 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Brooke Schaab; ARMY RESEARCH INST FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ALEXANDRIA VA
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| Military officers from Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom formed a Command Center during three, two-week Trials of an experiment. Participants completed surveys examining cohesion three times during each two-week Trial, on days 1, 5, and 8. One item consistently fell below "agree" on a 7-point Likert scale. Participants did not agree that: As a team we feel that we ... |
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| Creating and Capturing Expertise in Mixed-Initiative Planning |
JUN 2007 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony J. Ford; Joseph A. Carozzoni; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY INFORMATION DIRECTORATE
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| Compared with prior engagements, commanders today are exposed to a battlespace that is more dynamic and less predictable. With increasing frequency, commanders are confronted with an array of problems whose solution requires knowledge beyond their military training. In these novel situations, decision makers often rely on their past experiences, incorporating a process best described in research as analogy-based reasoning and/or recognition-primed decision making. While the relevancy of the experience is ... |
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| C2 at the Edge of Chaos: The Real Transformation to Enable Network Warfare |
JUN 2007 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Marcus F. De Oliveira; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The United States Army, along with the Department of Defense, has been undergoing a transformation that initially focused on technologies and structures instead of personnel and training policies. Network-centric theories focus on technology, structure, doctrine or social interaction depending on one's view of warfare. American theorists tend to emphasize technology and the network itself and the Department of Defense adopted the term Network-Centric Operations. The British adopted the term Network ... |
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| Knowledge Sharing Mechanism: Enabling C2 to Adapt to Changing Environments |
JUN 2007 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
David P. Harvie; MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY
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| The environments of software engineering and command and control (C2) are very similar because they are both instances of complex problem solving. The common nemesis to successfully developing solutions in these environments is change. The challenge of any complex problem solving process is the balance of adapting to multiple changes while keeping focused on the overall desired solution. The Knowledge Sharing Mechanism (KSM) is proposed as framework to achieve this ... |
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| Operational Replanning with User Defined Operational Picture: Warfighting Experiment and Operational Assessment Plan |
JUN 2007 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
Paul J. Hiniker; DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY FALLS CHURCH VA
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| In adapting C2 to the 21st century we plan to conduct a controlled Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) experiment with new Network Centric Warfare (NCW) technology which will be introduced to sixteen experienced warfighters in the form of a collaborative User Defined Operational Picture (UDOP) with Blue Force Readiness and intelligence database access enabled by an IP wide area network as a possible improvement over their use of current baseline technology in the ... |
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| Formal Representation of Joint Operational Relationships |
JUN 2007 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Sam Chamberlain; Darren Hargis; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| A primary impetus of the Global Force Management Data Initiative (GFM DI) is the establishment of a transparent and universal process to manage, assess and display the world-wide disposition of US forces including availability, readiness and capability in a variable scale and/or time continuum(s). Documenting each organizational node and the multiple relationships that exist between nodes within each organization to support the force assignment, allocation, and apportionment processes is the ... |
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| Measuring the Effects of Cumulative Influence: Using NCW to Prevent or Minimize Civilian Casualties |
JUN 2007 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Jack Lenahan; Phil Charles; SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS CENTER NORTH CHARLESTON SC
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| We are interested in discovering if "Influence" is measurable. We define influence as the power of producing effects using either kinetic and non-kinetic actions, or a combination of both. This paper will focus on the use of non-kinetic means to achieve the effect of encouraging non-combatants to vacate a potential hostile environment. By considering influence as a key element of effects based planning, the authors believe that it should be ... |
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| Measuring Team Collaboration in a Distributed Coalition Network |
JUN 2007 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Elizabeth K. Bowman; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| Distributed teams representing multidisciplinary perspectives and operating in a collaborative information environment will define the future of Command and Control (C2). Multinational Experiment 4 (MNE 4) provided researchers an opportunity to evaluate how distributed teams interact in a collaborative, networked environment to conduct the Effects Based Approach to Operations (EBAO). Several factors related to team collaboration were evaluated. These included measurements of workload, perceptions of information quality, ability of subjects ... |
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| Emerging Staff Roles: Robotics NCO Task Analysis |
JUN 2007 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Elizabeth K. Bowman; Regina A. Pomranky; Jeffrey A. Thomas; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| The position of a new platoon asset, the Robotics NCO (RNCO), is introduced in the Objective Force Operational and Organizational (O&O) Plan (Unit of Action Maneuver Battle Lab, 2003). The RNCO is expected to assist the Platoon Leader in employing unmanned systems, to be a subject matter expert in platoon robotics systems, and to coordinate unmanned assets in support of reconnaissance and surveillance tasks (Unit of Action Maneuver Battle Lab, ... |
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| Survey on Interoperability Measurement |
JUN 2007 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas C. Ford; John M. Colombi; Scott R. Graham; David R. Jacques; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
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| For nearly thirty years, both government and industry have actively explored research on interoperability measurement with the goal of creating a straightforward way of measuring, reporting, then improving the interoperability of complex networks of people, equipment, processes and organizations. Researchers have created frameworks and models, proposed measures, described levels, and listed a variety of qualitative factors in support of an interoperability measure. Within extant interoperability research, the authors' research has ... |
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| Operational Command and Control in the Age of Entropy |
JUN 2007 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Jonathan E. Czarnecki; NAVAL WAR COLLEGE MONTEREY CA
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| Operational leaders face a myriad of command and control challenges in 21st Century warfare. These challenges all have a common denominator: the increasing macro-effects of entropy. Entropy effects are far more than Clausewitzian friction on and in the battlespace; they are intrinsic to the very command and control supra-system, its information and succeeding actions. This paper discusses the more important entropic effects as they affect operational art and operational science. ... |
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| Using the Dynamic Model of Situated Cognition to Assess Network Centric Warfare in Field Settings |
JUN 2007 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Lawrence G. Shattuck; Nita L. Miller; Gregory A. Miller; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| Over the past three years, we have presented several papers on a model of data and information flow through a system: the Dynamic Model of Situated Cognition (DMSC). The DMSC has proved useful in a variety of settings: modeling individual performance, military C2, naval operations, human error in military mishaps, team behaviors in complex organizations and, most recently serving as an aid to system designers. Although first proposed as a ... |
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| Hypothesis Testing of Edge Organizations: Empirically Calibrating an Organizational Model for Experimentation |
JUN 2007 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas J. MacKinnon; Marc Ramsey; Raymond E. Levitt; Mark E. Nissen; STANFORD UNIV CA TERMAN ENGINEERING CENTER
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| This paper presents our ongoing efforts to model, simulate, and eventually optimize work and knowledge flows in Edge organizations. We use the extended POW-ER 3.2 framework to model and compare two organizational forms (Edge vs. Hierarchy) to structure participants in a counter-intelligence student exercise, ELICIT - first without, and then with, learning micro-behaviors enabled in POW-ER 3.2. Empirical, experimental data on learning and forgetting from observations of student teams conducting ... |
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| Hypothesis Testing of Edge Organizations: Modeling the C2 Organization Design Space |
JUN 2007 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
James B. Gateau; Tara A. Leweling; John P. Looney; Mark E. Nissen; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Edge represents a fresh approach to organizational design. It appears to be particularly appropriate in the context of modern military warfare, but also raises issues regarding comparative performance of alternate organizational designs. Building upon prior C2 research, we seek to understand the comparative performance of the Edge and all organizational forms, across 21st Century and all mission-environmental conditions, and hence characterize the entire organization design space systematically. Leveraging recent ... |
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| "Reclaiming Rapid Cognition": Improving Decision-making in Command and Control Agencies by Understanding and Enabling Rapid Cognition |
JUN 2007 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Elizabeth A. Cassleman; MARINE CORPS AIR-GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS CA
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| Rapid cognition decision-making has long been essential to military command and control. With the advent of new technologies that have increased information-flow and connectivity, while reducing delays in data flow, command and control agencies are now at risk of diminishing subordinate leaders' ability to make rapid cognition decisions. This leads to increased time needed to make decisions, as well as decreased quality in decisions made. To regain optimal rapid cognition ... |
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| TADIL TALES Templates: Modeling Tactical Data Links for Command and Control Training |
JUN 2007 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Joe Sorroche; ASRC COMMUNICATION LTD KIRTLAND AFB NM DISTRIBUTED MISSION OPERATIONS CENTER
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| The US Air Force Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) concept continues to be the most successful application of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) for warfighter training. The program extends beyond individual pilot or crew training to include the entire real world operations spectrum. One important component of DMO is Command and Control (C2) training. Until recently, DMO C2 training requirements were difficult to meet because there were no accurate tactical data link ... |
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| Course of Action Scoring and Analysis |
JUN 2007 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher Egan; Jerry Reaper; SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP (SAIC) BEAVERCREEK OHIO
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| The impacts of implementing effects-based operations (EBO) on course of action (COA) development and evaluation will be significant. Because EBO focuses on producing effects from military activities, as opposed to the direct result of attacking targets, there is an opportunity to develop a significantly higher number of COAs that achieve the desired effects. Consequently, EBO planning will significantly increase the number of evaluated COAs and the depth of evaluation. In ... |
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| Special Forces: Creating Synergy in the Contemporary Operating Environment |
JUN 2007 |
47 pages |
| Authors:
III Bollinger Glenn R.; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| An irregular enemy opposing U.S. and partner forces in an expeditionary, nonlinear battlespace defines the contemporary operating environment (COE) and postmodern warfare. This environment calls for improving our methods of operating, identifying, and building upon our strengths, and applying multiple efforts to achieve our national end state. Does the current doctrine help Special Forces commanders facilitate the successful integration of forces, capabilities, and effects in the COE? General purpose forces, ... |
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| Collaboration in Regional Civilian and Military Transportation Planning |
JUN 2007 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
George S. Carson; Ed Savacool; GSC ASSOCITES DENVER CO
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| The Strategic Mobility 21 (SM 21) Program is investigating new concepts for improving the utilization of the strategic ports in Southern California for military and civilian purposes. Among project goals are justifying the building of new regional transportation infrastructure to double the present throughput of container shipments through the ports as well as to efficiently support the surge deployment and sustainment of US military combat assets through the ports. This ... |
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| Concept Map Value Propagation for Tactical Intelligence |
JUN 2007 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Richard Kaste; Eric Heilman; Robert Hoffman; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| Command and control analysts increasingly apply traditionally unassociated concepts to situation understanding. Techniques are needed to tailor knowledge acquisition resource allocation according to probable value of information, both inferring an answer to a question using knowledge at hand and quickening intelligence efforts to fill in gaps. Concept Maps (Cmaps) are a form of meaningful diagram that represents concepts as nodes, linked by specified relationships. This paper discusses research into methods ... |
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| Defense Horizons. Responding in the Homeland: A Snapshot of NATO's Readiness for CBRN Attacks. June 2007, Number 56 |
JUN 2007 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Moodie; Robert E. Armstrong; Tyler Merkeley; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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| The possibility of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members having to respond to a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) incident is not a hypothetical scenario reserved for training exercises. Indeed, a number of countries worldwide have considerable experience in dealing with a variety of naturally occurring, accidental, and deliberate CBRN incidents. NATO itself, however, has no clear conceptual vision of its role in civil emergencies because preparedness of this ... |
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| Shared Displays: An Overview of Perceptual and Cognitive Issues |
JUN 2007 |
62 pages |
| Authors:
Lisa Douglas; Denise Aleva; Paul Havig; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH WARFIGHTER INTERFACE DIVISION
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| Large screen shared displays are a standard fixture in most command and control (C2) centers, but are often under-utilized. Many of the problems stem from the fact that shared displays are repeater displays from individual workstations. Scaling from workstation displays to large screen displays does not guarantee text will be large enough to be visible to all users. The colors and color range visible on the shared displays may not ... |
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| Game Theoretic Solutions to Cyber Attack and Network Defense Problems |
JUN 2007 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Dan Shen; Genshe Chen; Jr. Cruz; Erik Blasch; Martin Kruger; INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION INC ROCKVILLE MD
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| There are increasing needs for research in the area of cyber situational awareness. The protection and defense against cyber attacks to computer network is becoming inadequate as the hacker knowledge sophisticates and as the network and each computer system become more complex. Current methods for alert correlation to detect and identify network attacks rely on data mining approaches that use features or feature sets of network data to discover an ... |
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| Hypothesis Testing of Edge Organizations: Laboratory Experimentation Using the ELICIT Multiplayer Intelligence Game |
JUN 2007 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Tara A. Leweling; Mark E. Nissen; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Edge is a relative newcomer to organizational design--one that appears especially appropriate for contemporary military operations, but also raises issues regarding comparative performance of the Edge to alternate organizational designs, including more traditional hierarchical configurations. These issues suggest that laboratory experimentation, with coherently structured controls and manipulations and an appropriate data collection strategy, can offer substantive insights about the internal workings of the Edge organization with high levels of ... |
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| NATO, SOF, and the Future of the Alliance |
24 MAY 2007 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph M. Mouer; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| NATO continues to transform itself from a Cold-War institution. Originally designed to defend Western Europe from a conventional attack from the Soviet Union, the alliance is now extending its operational reach well beyond the borders of Europe. The realization that security for the alliance is integrated in the global security environment was first realized during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. During this conflict, NATO's Cold War structure proved inadequate ... |
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| Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States |
14 MAY 2007 |
156 pages |
| Authors:
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF WASHINGTON DC
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| This publication is the capstone joint doctrine publication. It provides doctrine for unified action by the Armed Forces of the United States. As such, it specifies the authorized command relationships and authority that military commanders can use, provides guidance for the exercise of that military authority, provides fundamental principles and guidance for command and control, prescribes guidance for organizing joint forces, and describes policy for selected joint activities. It also ... |
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| Maritime Coalitions: When is Unity of Command Required |
10 MAY 2007 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory J. Gahlinger; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Coalitions are a fact of life in modern diplomatic and military endeavors. Nations will seek to join or establish coalitions to maximize collective military power and establish legitimacy for the objectives they seek. Command and Control (C2) of maritime coalitions is a distinct facet of coalition operations based on the nature of naval operations. The concepts of Unity of Command, Unity of Effort and Parallel, Lead Nation, or Integrated coalition ... |
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| Sailing with the Enemy; the Integration of China into the Proliferation Security Initiative |
10 MAY 2007 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel G. Case; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The world's nations must take action to prevent the growing threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation. WMD material must be prevented from reaching terrorist and rogue states via the high seas. With 80 percent of the world's trade transported on the maritime domain, it will take the combined effort of all nations to monitor the large maritime domain and interdict WMD. The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is a ... |
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| One More Mission for a Multi-mission Platform: An Argument for Support Relationships for Theater Missile Defense |
10 MAY 2007 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Greg Smith; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Establishing effective national missile defense is a top priority for the United States military. Improved missile defense assets, including the development of Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD), provide a strategic deterrent and a limited ability to defeat ballistic missile attacks. Operational commanders must leverage the assets developed for national missile defense to counter the more prevalent, likely and challenging threat of theater ballistic missiles. To do so requires the application ... |
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| The Practice of Operational Art in Operation Weserubung: The German Invasion of Norway 1940 |
10 MAY 2007 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Mark A. Rice; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| In April of 1940, the peaceful and neutral country of Norway became a battleground between Germany, France, and England in their desire to control it for their own war objectives. The Battle of Norway and as the Germans called it, Operation Weseruebung, was the first major military operation in history to utilize naval, ground, air, and airborne forces in the assault phase of the attack. The German success in this ... |
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| Five Steps to Solving the Interagency Coordination Process |
10 MAY 2007 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Mark C. Reves; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The current structure of the United States elements of national power creates significant interagency coordination problems, leading to a less efficient unity of national effort. The primary hurdle to interagency coordination lies not in the grand strategic formulation of policy, but in the theater-strategic and operational implementation of such policy. The National Security Council lacks the political will and the current capacity to handle the volume of interagency coordination required. ... |
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| Defense Attaches and Theater Security Cooperation: Bringing Military Diplomacy into the 21st Century |
10 MAY 2007 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Paul A. Sigler; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Defense attach s are critical to execution of Regional Combatant Commander's (RCC) Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) strategies and should be reassigned from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to the RCC in order to maximize cooperation with interagency members of the Ambassador's Country Team. The current command and control structure for the Defense Attach Office (DAO) was ideal when the office was focused on Cold War intelligence collection, but is inadequate ... |
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| AFRICOM: A Unique Opportunity to Reshape Civil/Military Relationships |
07 MAY 2007 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Richard W. Gibbs; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The concept of operations for the evolving U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) primarily focuses on developing security through the non-military elements of U.S. national power. Accordingly, interagency civilian participation is being planned into the new organization. In this first interagency command, senior U.S. officials involved in standing up the new command have announced AFRICOM's deputy commander position will be filled by a senior official from the U.S. Department of State. Unfortunately, ... |
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| An Analysis of the Tooth to Tail Ratio in a Brigade Combat Team Between 1990 to Present |
02 MAY 2007 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Peter J. Crandall; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| This monograph examines the question: Does the organizational change affecting the "tooth to tail" ratio sustain the flexibility and tactical mobility of the heavy brigade combat team? The monograph looked at the Army during Army of Excellence, Force XXI, and the Modular force to compare and contrast. The monograph briefly looks at the history of organization changes to the force, and then looks a little closer at the reasons why ... |
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| Software Acquisition in the Army |
01-May-2007 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Elizabeth Starrett; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT CENTER HILL AFB UT
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| There has been much discussion lately regarding the Global War on Terror's (GWOT) financial ramifications to the United States Army. While all of the Department of Defense (DoD) is challenged financially during the ongoing war, the Army appears to be most effected. As CrossTalk prepared this issue on Software Acquisition, we thought CrossTalk readers would benefit from a discussion of this challenge, providing additional perspectives to acquisition efforts. |
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| CCIR for Complex and Uncertain Environments |
01 MAY 2007 |
122 pages |
| Authors:
Marc A. Spinuzzi; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| This monograph examines the concept of Commander's Critical Information Requirements (CCIR) and determines if the doctrine is suitable for particularly complex operations, like counterinsurgency (COIN). CCIR was developed to accomplish three distinct purposes: (1) maintain situational understanding, (2) support decision points, and (3) manage information. A fourth purpose -- to support assessment -- is a relatively new addition. These purposes were all developed with conventional warfare in mind. Lessons learned ... |
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| INCOMMANDS TDP: Development of Decision Aid Implementation Guidance for the INCOMMANDS Human Factors Design and Evaluation Guide (Elaboration des Directives Relatives a la Mise en Oeuvre de l'Aide a la Decision Pour le Guide de Conception et d'evaluation |
MAY 2007 |
84 pages |
| Authors:
Simon Banbury; Michelle Gauthier; CAE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES OTTAWA (ONTARIO)
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| The INCOMMANDS TDP seeks to research, demonstrate and evaluate new command decision support concepts for the HALIFAX Class frigate's command and control (C2) system, with the objective of improving team battlespace awareness, and increasing decision speed and accuracy. The aim of this document is to support the design and development of Operator Machine Interface (OMI) concepts developed as part of the INCOMMANDS TDP by providing a structured and comprehensive set ... |
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| AEGIS and Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS) Platforms: Using KVA Analysis, Risk Simulation and Strategic Real Options to Assess Operational Effectiveness |
30-Apr-2007 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas J Housel; Johnathan Mun; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF INFORMATION SCIENCES
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| Modern, analytical tools are critical to understanding the impact of open architecture technology and open business models on naval warfighting processes and procedures. These tools must measure the operational value of a system from an end-user, warfighter perspective, identify areas of deficiencies in capabilities, and flag areas for potential acquisitions. One advantage of examining open architecture system upgrade options from a warfighter perspective is that the new systems can be ... |
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| Developing a Joint Engineer Headquarters for the JTF Commander |
05 APR 2007 |
72 pages |
| Authors:
John P. Lloyd; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINT FORCES STAFF COLL
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| The degree to which Joint Task Force (JTF) Commanders are responsible for full spectrum Operations encompasses a greater need for a standing Joint Engineer Force Headquarters which is capable of providing command and control of engineer forces for greater operational effectiveness from initial entry operations to nation building. This paper is intended to expound on Engineer Transformation and specifically discuss the idea of establishing a standing Joint Engineer Force Headquarters ... |
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| Responsive Space Situation Awareness in 2020 |
Apr-2007 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Russell F Teehan; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL CENTER FOR STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
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| The U.S. strategy to assure freedom of access in space hinges on Space Situation Awareness (SSA): the ability to find and track space objects and determine their capability and intent. As a result, AFSPC is investing much to overhaul the aging sensors, network the sensors to enable data sharing and dissemination timeliness, and improve the tactics, techniques, and procedures required to integrate space surveillance into the command and control operations ... |
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| Active Component Rapid Response Force; The Answer to the Military's Issues with Efficient and Effective Support during Response to and Recovery from Incidents of National Significance? |
30 MAR 2007 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
William W. Johnson; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| Since September 11, 2001 (9/11) heavy emphasis has been placed on securing the United States and its interests from terrorism. However, little emphasis has been placed on the importance of an efficient and effective response to incidents of national significance that do not fall into the realm of terrorist activity. The events of Hurricane Katrina brought to light significant response and recovery issues associated with emergency situations within the Continental ... |
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| Abdicating Close Air Support: How Interservice Rivalry Affects Roles and Missions |
30 MAR 2007 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Steven G. Olive; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Since the start of the Global War on Terror, the United States' military has gained combat experience that is broader than anything seen since World War II. Yet even as the military services take the lessons from this long war' and convert them into future capabilities, there is a danger that long-standing service cultures and animosities may degrade the outstanding working relationships built through the common bond of combat. This ... |
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| Assault on the USS LIBERTY: Deliberate Action or Tragic Accident? |
30 MAR 2007 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Peyton E. Smith; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The USS Liberty was an unarmed electronic intelligence gathering naval vessel patrolling in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula in 1967. It was abruptly attacked by Israel but received no aid from American aircraft in the area. This paper will explore geopolitical conditions at the time, what happened, what the American and Israeli official response was, and bring other facts together from both interviews with surviving crew and memoirs of ... |
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| Always On: Achilles Heel of the Networked Force? |
30 MAR 2007 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Michael T. Barry; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Thoroughly enamored with the benefits of exchanging information in near-real-time, the U.S. military has committed itself to networking the battlefield. Brought about by the convergence of military and consumer communications technology, the networked battlefield boasts continuous connectivity with digitized information. However, the network-centric force is reliant on the radio frequency spectrum to pass information, and is always-on, which is to say, it is constantly producing radio frequency emissions in order ... |
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| Operation Iraqi Freedom: Preliminary Observations on Iraqi Security Forces' Logistics and Command and Control Capabilities |
28 MAR 2007 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
William S. Solis; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| In light of the broad congressional interest in Iraq, we have undertaken this engagement under the authority of the Comptroller General to conduct evaluations at his own initiative to provide information on the status and challenges of developing ISF support capabilities. Specifically, our objectives were to determine (1) the current state of the logistical, command and control, and intelligence capabilities of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense; and (2) the current ... |
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| Force Structure Changes in the U.S. Pacific Command - Roles and Responsibilities of Headquarters and Support Functions |
12 MAR 2007 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Wanda A. Scott; Deborah D. Crosier; INSPECTOR GENERAL DEPT OF DEFENSE ARLINGTON VA
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| The overall audit objective was to evaluate the changes to the force structure for the U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). Specifically, the Inspector General (IG), Department of Defense (DoD) evaluated the force structure requirements, criteria, and costs, as well as the role of host-nation support and impact on the readiness of U.S. forces in USPACOM. This is one in a series of reports concerning the changes to the force structure for ... |
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| Optimizing Joint Engineering Support |
01 MAR 2007 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Terry Watkins; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| As service components are tasked to provide engineers to both Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Enduring Freedom (OEF), it is imperative that each service provide trained engineers capable of interoperability. These engineers must have common understanding and skill sets to support ongoing and future missions. This study examines existing conditions and lessons learned in OIF and OEF to improve joint engineering capabilities. Specifically, the paper will focus on five areas ... |
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| Integrated Information Management (IIM) |
MAR 2007 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Jason McIlvain; NGI SYSTEMS MANLIUS NY
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| Information Technology is the core capability required to align our resources and increase our effectiveness on the battlefield by integrating and coordinating our preventative measures and responses along with the tools used to perform them. To win the War on Terrorism, the US defense strategy requires information superiority to secure our advantage over adversaries. This focus on technology is identical to Joint Vision 2020's goal of information dominance, and the ... |
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