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| Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats, and Capabilities |
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| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Computers |
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| Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services |
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| Author | : Jon R. Lindsay |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2020-07-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1501749579 |
Militaries with state-of-the-art information technology sometimes bog down in confusing conflicts. To understand why, it is important to understand the micro-foundations of military power in the information age, and this is exactly what Jon R. Lindsay's Information Technology and Military Power gives us. As Lindsay shows, digital systems now mediate almost every effort to gather, store, display, analyze, and communicate information in military organizations. He highlights how personnel now struggle with their own information systems as much as with the enemy. Throughout this foray into networked technology in military operations, we see how information practice—the ways in which practitioners use technology in actual operations—shapes the effectiveness of military performance. The quality of information practice depends on the interaction between strategic problems and organizational solutions. Information Technology and Military Power explores information practice through a series of detailed historical cases and ethnographic studies of military organizations at war. Lindsay explains why the US military, despite all its technological advantages, has struggled for so long in unconventional conflicts against weaker adversaries. This same perspective suggests that the US retains important advantages against advanced competitors like China that are less prepared to cope with the complexity of information systems in wartime. Lindsay argues convincingly that a better understanding of how personnel actually use technology can inform the design of command and control, improve the net assessment of military power, and promote reforms to improve military performance. Warfighting problems and technical solutions keep on changing, but information practice is always stuck in between.
| Author | : David Stephen Alberts |
| Publisher | : Cforty Onesr Cooperative Research |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781893723061 |
| Author | : Joseph N. Mait |
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| Total Pages | : 78 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Electronics in military engineering |
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The Center for Technology and National Security Policy has investigated how the Department of Defense can enhance its engagement with the commercial market while meeting requirements for operations. A chief complaint from information technology companies is that they do not know what the services need. This report is a primer for commercial providers to gain some understanding of the military's thinking about military information technology and some of the programs it foresees for the future. Chapter 1 focuses on the development of critical technologies required for ground tactical operations. It presents the Army's efforts to enhance data and information exchange among systems of systems on the battlefield. Key among these is the development of mobile ad hoc networks and applications. The discussion in Chapter 2 emphasizes the technical objectives of the Navy's FORCEnet to meet its operational capabilities, characterized broadly as Sea Strike, Sea Shield, and Sea Basing. The chapter focuses on the functionalities that FORCEnet requires and the technologies needed to produce these functions. Chapter 3 discusses activities in the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Battle Labs that support the Joint Battlespace Infosphere. Chapter 4 provides a detailed overview of the issues and requirements necessary to insure that networking and information sharing occurs across the services. This chapter characterizes the nature of the interoperability problem, describes recent initiatives to ameliorate interoperability shortfalls, and identifies interoperability challenges. The unique problem of sharing information with allies and changing coalitions is addressed in Chapter 5 in the context of NATO operations. The chapter describes NATO's efforts to move into an age of information-intensive military operations with particular attention on political decision-making, and the command and control of distant multinational operations.
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| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
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| ISBN | : 1428930809 |
| Author | : Peter J. Dombrowski |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 023113570X |
In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration that will enable the new military format. Dombrowski and Gholz's analysis integrates the political relationship between the defense industry and Congress, the bureaucratic relationship between the firms and the military services, and the technical capabilities of different types of businesses. Many government officials and analysts believe that only entrepreneurial start-up firms or leaders in commercial information technology markets can produce the new, network-oriented military equipment. But Dombrowski and Gholz find that the existing defense industry will be best able to lead military-technology development, even for equipment modeled on the civilian Internet. The U.S. government is already spending billions of dollars each year on its "military transformation" program-money that could be easily misdirected and wasted if policymakers spend it on the wrong projects or work with the wrong firms. In addition to this practical implication, Buying Military Transformation offers key lessons for the theory of "Revolutions in Military Affairs." A series of military analysts have argued that major social and economic changes, like the shift from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age, inherently force related changes in the military. Buying Military Transformation undermines this technologically determinist claim: commercial innovation does not directly determine military innovation; instead, political leadership and military organizations choose the trajectory of defense investment. Militaries should invest in new technology in response to strategic threats and military leaders' professional judgments about the equipment needed to improve military effectiveness. Commercial technological progress by itself does not generate an imperative for military transformation. Clear, cogent, and engaging, Buying Military Transformation is essential reading for journalists, legislators, policymakers, and scholars.
| Author | : Institute of Medicine |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 590 |
| Release | : 2007-03-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0309100399 |
In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low-cost labor is readily available, U.S. advantages in the marketplace and in science and technology have begun to erode. A comprehensive and coordinated federal effort is urgently needed to bolster U.S. competitiveness and pre-eminence in these areas. This congressionally requested report by a pre-eminent committee makes four recommendations along with 20 implementation actions that federal policy-makers should take to create high-quality jobs and focus new science and technology efforts on meeting the nation's needs, especially in the area of clean, affordable energy: 1) Increase America's talent pool by vastly improving K-12 mathematics and science education; 2) Sustain and strengthen the nation's commitment to long-term basic research; 3) Develop, recruit, and retain top students, scientists, and engineers from both the U.S. and abroad; and 4) Ensure that the United States is the premier place in the world for innovation. Some actions will involve changing existing laws, while others will require financial support that would come from reallocating existing budgets or increasing them. Rising Above the Gathering Storm will be of great interest to federal and state government agencies, educators and schools, public decision makers, research sponsors, regulatory analysts, and scholars.
| Author | : Randall G. Conway |
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| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Information technology |
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The Army is now engaged in a formal transformation process to create forces to capitalize on technological and organizational opportunities that new electronic, automotive, and ballistic technologies appear to provide. The transformation effort is also designed to alleviate problems in strategic mobility that have traditionally degraded the Army's ability to rapidly deploy forces other than light and airborne infantry. The transformation process will move along three interdependent yet simultaneous axes: the Legacy Force, the Interim Force, and the Objective Force. The purpose of this study is to examine the Interim Force and determine whether or not the higher technical performance expected to be gained from information technology will equate to a higher operational capability for the Interim Brigade Combat Team. The method of analysis will review the future operational environment for which this force is being developed, underscore the capabilities information technology brings to the transformation effort, and examine the challenges information technology presents Army planners and leaders as they further develop the campaign plan and execute the program. This study will suggest that accounting for the unintended consequences brought about by gains from information technology will contribute to a tighter fit between aspirations and emerging capabilities.
