[PDF] Applying The Ncw Conceptual Framework To Forcenet A Case Study eBook

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Page : 62 pages
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Release : 2005
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FORCEnet, the Naval implementation of network-centric warfare, in order to deliver the necessary capabilities in a timely and affordable way, requires an investment strategy that is based on objective analysis. Accordingly, a logical and comprehensive framework for FORCEnet analysis has been developed by combining a capability-based description of FORCEnet with the Conceptual Framework for Network Centric Warfare developed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The present paper documents the application of this analysis approach to several aspects of the FORCEnet initiative, including resource and requirement decisions in the planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE) process, analysis of FORCEnet Fleet experiments, support of architecture and standards development, evaluation of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP), alignment of science and technology (S & T) and research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT & E) efforts with FORCEnet requirements, and evaluation and selection of modeling and simulation (M & S) tools and scenarios. The results demonstrate how the proposed metrics can be used to assess the improvement in FORCEnet capabilities over time, identify capability gaps, and guide acquisition and technology investments to close those gaps. Finally, the paper summarizes the challenges in applying the metrics.

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Publisher : Office of Force Transformation
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Provides answers to some of the fundamental questions regarding network-centric warfare (NCW) as an emerging theory of war in the Information Age. Describes how the tenets and principles of NCW are providing the foundation for developing new warfighting concepts, organizations, and processes that will allow our forces to maintain a competitive advantage over potential adversaries, now and in the future. Provides an overview of the ongoing implementation of NCW in the Department of Defense (DoD).

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Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2005
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ISBN : 9780160873386

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As the world enters a new millennium, the U.S. military simultaneously enters a new era in warfare -- an era in which warfare is affected by a changing strategic environment and rapid technological change. The United States and its multinational partners are experiencing a transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. Simultaneously, it is fully engaged in a global war on terrorism set in a new period of globalization. These changes, as well as the experiences gained during recent and ongoing military operations, have resulted in the current drive to transform the force with network-centric warfare (NCW) as the centerpiece of this effort. This document describes how the tenets and principles of NCW are providing the foundation for developing new warfighting concepts, organizations, and processes that will allow U.S. forces to maintain a competitive advantage over potential adversaries, now and in the future. In sum, the report provides an overview of the ongoing implementation of NCW in the Department of Defense (DoD). A brief description of NCW, including its origins, its central role in force transformation, its tenets and principles, and an implementation strategy, are provided in Chapter 1. An examination of NCW as an emerging theory of war, its relationship to the four domains of Information Age warfare, the growing evidence of its benefits, and the warfighting advantages it can provide are examined in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 focuses on network-centric operations (NCO), including the relationship of NCO to the overarching Joint Operations Concepts (JOpsC), the NCO experience in Afghanistan and Iraq, the development of the NCO Conceptual Framework, and the conduct of NCO case studies. An overview of Joint and Service plans and initiatives to develop and implement network-centric capabilities and the growing investment in these capabilities by our allies and multinational partners are provided in Chapter 4.

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Page : 43 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2003
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The work to be described in this paper addresses recent advances in the application of modeling and simulation (M & S) techniques to the problem of quantifying the force-level warfighting value-added of FORCEnet and related doctrine and systems in the context of realistic scenarios including Operational War Plans (OPLANs). The M & S activities discussed in this paper have been conducted in support of operational experiments and wargames, as part of analyses in support of CINC-level commands, and as a part of analyses in support of certain specific acquisition programs having the requirement to demonstrate synergy with ongoing U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Navy FORCEnet and Network Centric Warfare (NCW) improvement programs. Lessons-learned concerning the challenges associated with representing information technology (IT) infrastructure improvements along with required FORCEnet/NCW warfare process re-engineering (WPR) initiatives will be presented. An iterative cycle of WPR initiative formulation and evaluation is often a required part of an assessment of the force-level warfighting value-added of specific FORCEnet/NCW improvements. This paper will also describe the extent to which the M & S approaches employed in the analyses alluded to above are consistent with the OSD (C3I) Network Centric Warfare Conceptual Framework. This framework provides a basis for making quantitative assessments of the degree to which specific Mission Capabilities Packages (MCPs), IT infrastructure improvement initiatives, and associated warfighting process improvements yield operational value-added in the manner envisioned by the tenants of NCW.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309096006

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The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of this construct is the need for flexible, adaptive command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. To assist development of this capability, the Navy asked the NRC to examine C4ISR for carrier, expeditionary, and strike and missile defense strike groups, and for expeditionary strike forces. This report provides an assessment of C4ISR capabilities for each type of strike group; recommendations for C4ISR architecture for use in major combat operations; promising technology trends; and an examination of organizational improvements that can enable the recommended architecture.

Author : David Stephen Alberts
Publisher : Ccrp Publication Series
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Command and control systems
ISBN : 9781893723177

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"Understanding Command and Control is the first in a new series of CCRP Publications that will explore the future of Command and Control ... This book begins at the beginning: focusing on the problem(s) Command and Control was designed (and has evolved) to solve. It is only by changing the focus from what Command and Control is to why Command and Control is that we will place ourselves in a position to move on"--Preface.

Author : J. Boone, JBoone Bartholomees, Jr.
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2010-07-30
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ISBN : 9781463576318

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Both Henry Kissinger and Robert Art make it clear that the identification of national interests is crucial for the development of policy and strategy. Interests are essential to establishing the objectives or ends that serve as the goals for policy and strategy. "Interests are the foundation and starting point for policy prescriptions." They help answer questions concerning why a policy is important.4 National interests also help to determine the types and amounts of the national power employed as the means to implement a designated policy or strategy. The concept of interest is not new to the 21st century international system. It has always been a fundamental consideration of every actor in the system. Despite what many academics have maintained, national interests are not only a factor for nation-states. All actors in the international system possess interests. Using Barry Buzan, Ole Weaver, and Jaap de Wilde's units of analysis, the need to have interests is equally applicable to international subsystems (groups or units that can be distinguished from the overall system by the nature or intensity of their interactions with or independence on each other) like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, individual units (actors consisting of various subgroups, orga¬nizations, and communities) such as nations of people that transcend state boundaries and multi¬national corporations, subunits (organized groups of individuals within units that are able or try to affect the behavior of the unit as a whole) like bureaucracies and lobbies, and finally, individuals that all possess separate personal interests as they participate in the overall system.5 Some academ¬ics choose to distinguish between national interests (interests involved in the external relations of the actor) and public interests (interests related within the boundaries of the actor).6 For purposes of this essay, given the closing gap between the influence of external and internal issues in the 21st century international system brought about by the associated components of a rapidly globalized world, there will be no distinction made between external and internal interests. In effect, they all fall under the concept of the national interest. There is a generally accepted consensus among academics that interests are designed to be of value to the entity or actor responsible for determining the interest for itself. This could include 4 those interests that are intended to be "a standard of conduct or a state of affairs worthy of achieve¬ment by virtue of its universal moral value."7 However, there is less agreement over the question of whether all nation-state interests are enduring, politically bi-partisan, permanent conditions that represent core interests that transcend changes in government,8 in contrast to those interests that may be altered over time and or respond to change in the international system.

Author : Dan Braha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2007-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540328343

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This book sheds light on the large-scale engineering systems that shape and guide our everyday lives. It does this by bringing together the latest research and practice defining the emerging field of Complex Engineered Systems. Understanding, designing, building and controlling such complex systems is going to be a central challenge for engineers in the coming decades. This book is a step toward addressing that challenge.

Author : Peter J. Dombrowski
Publisher : Newport R.I.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Defense industries
ISBN : 9781884733246

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... this is a case study of the process by which a strategy was developed and applied within the present American defense establishment ... bearing in mind the broad aspects involved in the rational development of a strategy through an understanding of national aims, technological and geographical constraints, and relative military abilities.

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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Command and control systems
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Joint Vision 2020 is the conceptual template for how we will channel the vitality of our people and leverage technological opportunities to achieve new levels of effectiveness in joint warfighting.