Accession Number : ADA432929

Title :   Intelligence Collection: Supporting Full Spectrum Dominance and Network Centric Warfare?

Descriptive Note : Monograph rept.

Corporate Author : ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES

Personal Author(s) : Moses, Bruce D.

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Report Date : 2004

Pagination or Media Count : 82

Abstract : This monograph examines whether the Army's information collection efforts are supporting the goal of full spectrum dominance and whether these are in harmony with the concepts of network centric warfare. Full spectrum dominance and network centric warfare are central themes in Department of Defense and Army transformation literature and both require information collection and an understanding of the role of cognition empowered by networking for success. More specifically, it examines whether Army collection efforts are focusing too heavily on collection for combat operations and leaving it unable to fully exploit the access to adversary systems during stability operations. This study found that the institutional Army is not fully supporting the goal of full spectrum dominance or network centric warfare but is still myopically investing heavily in efforts to defeat the adversary's conventional capabilities with standoff collection technology and is not creating the organizational, systems and technical architectures necessary to leverage the power of a fully networked force.

Descriptors :   *INTELLIGENCE, *COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, *ARMY OPERATIONS, *INFORMATION WARFARE, MILITARY OPERATIONS, STABILITY, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, STANDOFF, COGNITION, DOCUMENTS, DATA ACQUISITION, ARCHITECTURE, COLLECTION, TRANSFORMATIONS.

Subject Categories : COMPUTER SYSTEMS
      MILITARY OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND TACTICS
      RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

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