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U.S. Spending on Military Technology through 2010 Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Decision Support for Network-Centric Command and Control Joint Radio: Vision of a Transformed Force Slipping Away Old Dogs and New Tricks: Setting the Tone for Adaptability Military Officer Attitudes Toward UAV Adoption: Exploring Institutional Impediments to Innovation Trials and Tribulations Persist in Joint Tactical Radio Getting to a 21st Century Supply Chain Directing Defense Intelligence Technological Implications of the 2006 QDR Defense Transformation: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress Transforming Military Training: Using the Lessons of the Past to Build the Army of the Future Military Transformation: Ends, Ways, and Means Implementing the Transformation Vision Selected Papers from the 2006 Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, sponsored by U.S. DOD Command and Control Research Program, San Diego, 20-22 June 2006. (All .pdf files). The Knowledge Structure of the Commander in Asymmetric Battlefield: The Six Sights and Sensemaking Process A Proposal for a Department of Defense (DOD) Command and Control Strategy The Implications of Complex Adaptive Systems Theory for C2 Centralized Execution in the U.S. Air Force The Command and Control Joint Integrated Concept: Spreading the Word A State-Space Formulation for Effects-Based Operations FORCEnet Science and Technology Needs Network on Target: Remotely Configured Adaptive Tactical Networks Improving Platoon Leader Situation Awareness with Unmanned Sensor Technology Network Based Effectiveness Knowledge Support for Effect-Based Operations Urban Battlespace Control: A New Concept for Battle Command Network-Centric Warfare in Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Western Theater A Revised Calculation on the Value of Networking as Applied to Airborne Platforms A Conceptual Model of Information Processing by a Land Commander at Low Tactical Levels Unintended Consequences of the Network-Centric Decision Making Model: Considering the Human Operator Aligning Net-Centric Practice with Net-Centric Technology: A Way Forward FORCEnet Net Centric Architecture - A Standards View Has C2 Become an Anachronism on the Net-Centric Battlefield? Principles of War: Obsolete or Timeless The Grand Challenges of Command and Control Policy Two Theories of Process Design For Information Security: Smart Pull vs. Smart Push Rethinking Command and Control Assessing C2 Program Capabilities An Australian Approach to Assessing Force-Level Network-Centric Warfare Readiness Situation Awareness for Cyber Defense Some Thoughts on the Application of Military Theory to Information Operations and Network Centric Warfare Battle of the Bulge: The Impact of Information Age Command and Control on Conflict Achieving Decision Superiority at NATO Headquarters Two Weeks with a Network-Centric Infantry Company in an Urban Warfare Trial U.S. 'Prompt Global Strike' Capability: a New Destabilising Sub-State Deterrent in the Making? The Right Number U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress Transformation: A Program Assessment - Vol II: Supporting Reports Bringing Defense into the Information Economy Unmanned Aircraft Systems: New DOD Programs Can Learn From Past Efforts to Craft Better and Less Risky Acquisition Strategies Transforming the U.S. Global Defense Posture A Balanced Force Structure to Achieve a Liberal World Order Defense Transformation: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress Reposturing the Force: U.S. Overseas Presence in the Twenty-First Century Six Decades of Guided Munitions Restructuring Special Operations Forces for Emerging Threats 12th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium Sense and Respond Logistics: Integrating Prediction, Responsiveness, and Control Capabilities Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment Joint Paths to the Future Force: A Report on Unified Quest 2004 DoD Systems Modernization: Uncertain Joint Use and Marginal Expected Value of Military Asset Deployment System Warrant Reassessment of Planned Investment Defense Acquisitions: Joint Forces Command's Limited Acquisition Authority The QDR & Long-Range Surveillance and Strike Testing Their Mettle Dealing with Uncertainty Military-Transformation Agency At Crossroads After Cebrowski Pentagon Transformation Office: 'Much Remains to Be Done' Transforming the Rewards for Military Service Making IT Happen: Transforming Military Information Technology Transforming Defense Defense Science Board Task Force on Mobility Implementing Logistics Transformation: A New Model for the Military Supply Chain Transforming Defense With 2005 Transformation Road Maps Scrapped OFT Focuses on QDR Capstone Concept for Joint Operations Logistics Transformation: Next Steps to Interoperability and Alignment Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: New Proposals for Defense Reform Actions Needed to Enhance DOD's Program to Transform Joint Training Wireless Sensor Systems and Networks: Technologies, Applications, Implications and Impacts Information Technology Takes Firm Hold of Military's Reins US European Command and Transformation Long-Range Strike: Imperatives, Urgency and Options Joint Capabilities and System-of-Systems Solutions Issues Associated with the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion 050222 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Programs: Issues for Congress The Future of the Guard and Reserve: Roles, Missions and Force Structure Transforming Reserve Forces Emerging Threats to National Security Transforming the Reserve Component DSB To Examine Pentagon Transformation To Date Transforming Joint Warfighting Capabilities The Origins of Effects-based Operations Systems Integration and the New American Way of War Centralized Control/ Decentralized Execution in the Era of Forward Reach 050101 Logistics Transformation - Restarting a Stalled Process Avoiding Surprise in an Era of Global Technology Advances (2005) Toward Incentives for Military Transformation: A Review of Economic Models of Compensation Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research (2005) Reexamining Military Acquisition Reform: Are We There Yet? Battlefield-Driven Innovation: Acquisition Lessons from Recent Experiences Pentagon Takes Another Shot at Enforcing Joint Thinking Unit Focused Stabilization: Prospective and Issues Pentagon Takes Major Step Toward Battlespace System Harmonization: Family of Operational Pictures is a Key Element of Precision Engagement Pentagon Kicks Off Effort To Re-Examine The Basic Principles Of War Internet in the Sky Sticker Shock Felt As New Radios Are Acquired America's Welcome Military Rethink Cebrowski: More Complexity Essential To Defense Building Capability from the Technical Revolution that has Happened Looking to the Future: What Does Transformation Mean for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy? Looking to the Future What Does Transformation Mean for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy? Recent Campaigns Benefited from Improved Communications and Technology, but Barriers to Continued Progress Remain Transformation, Take 2 Building Capability from the Technical Revolution that has Happened Pentagon Will Spend $15B to Lower Bandwith Cost At The Pentagon, Barnett's Quirky Powerpoint Carries Big Punch Do Big U.S. Programs Stifle Innovation? Transformation Trends Billions Continue to Be Invested with Inadequate Management Oversight and Accountability The Exiegencies of Global, Integrated Warfare: The Evolving Role of the CJCS and his Dedicated Staff Cebrowski: Don't 'Feel Bad' At Small Quantities of F/A-22, DD(X), LPD-17 Outsourcing the War Future Ops Forcing Disruptive Changes, Marine General Says War Realities Call for New Approach to Logistics Interoperability and Systems Integration Conference Move Toward Real, Not Just Rhetorical, Transformation The Rise of the Shadow Warriors Not Many Jobs Take a Whole Army: Special Operations Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs Time-Critical Targeting Predictive versus Reactionary Methods: An Analysis for the Future Force-Application Planning A Systems-and-Effects-Based Approach Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era Thinking About the Imperatives of Defense Transformation Military Looks for Joint Architecture Joint Functional Concepts Major Combat Operations: Joint Operating Concept Homeland Security Joint Operating Concept Strategic Deterrence Joint Operating Concept Future Strategic Strike Forces Effects-Based Operations in Afghanistan Stability Operations: Joint Operating Concept
Transformation Trends Attracting the Best: How the Military Competes for Information Technology Personnel OIF Lessons Highlight Comms Compatibility Information Sharing Among Military Headquarters : the Effects on Decisionmaking Attracting the Best : How the Military Competes for Information Technology Personnel From Factory to Foxhole: The Transformation of Army Logistics Cebrowski Sketches the Face of Transformation Conflict and Ambiguity Implementing Evolutionary Acquisition The New Officer Corps: '360-Degree Evaluations' (Part 3 of 3) National Security Strategy and Policy Security Planning and Military Transformation After Iraqi Freedom Defense Transformation Leader Suggests Improvements Tools for Transforming the Officer Corps (Part 2 of 3) Global Expeditionary Warfare Post-Conflict and Culture: Changing America's Military for 21st Century Missions War Games: Computer games enter the debates about the U.S military response to Osama and Saddam Transforming the U.S. Army Officer Corps (First of Two Parts) Transformation: Are the Goals Off Target? Military not adequately equipped for nation building, says former CENTCOM chief Toward a New Style of Warfare Toward a More Secure America Joint Operations Concepts Generals Point Ways to Better Blue Force C4I Interoperability: New Challenges in 21st Century Warfare Bandwidth in Iraq a Subject of Debate From "Defending Forward" To a "Global Defense-in-depth": Globalization and Security Roadblocks Ahead for Joint Tactical Radio Military Transformation: A Strategic Approach Phase I Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Joint Experimentation US Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Enabling Joint Force Capabilities Conquering the Elements: Thoughts on Joint Force (Re)organization Jointness, Defense Transformation, and the Need for a New Joint Warfare Profession House Passes DOD IT Cuts Toward a Global Cavalry: Overseas Rebasing and Defense Transformation The New American Way of War Next Steps in Defense Restructuring The Unfinished Revolution in Military Affairs DOD Chat Use Exploded in Iraq Planning a Revolution: Mapping the Pentagon's Transformation The Unfinished Revolution in Military Affairs Military Transformation Complicates Acquisitions, Officials Say Quiet Transformation: The Role of the Office of Net Assessment Adapting the Military to the Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Missions Defense Transformation: DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel System and Defense Transformation: Preliminary Observations on DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel Reforms Transforming Transformation Safeguarding GPS Global Concept of Operations Transforming Transformation: Defense-Planning Lessons from Iraq Transforming How We Fight Transformation Planning Guidance Defense Approves New Info Framework Computing a New Plan of Attack (Free Registration Required) Security Transformation: Report of the Belfer Center Conference on Military Transformation Are Our Troops Ready for Biological and Chemical Attacks? A Swift, Elusive Sword, Second Edition Decision Dominance: Exploiting Transformational Asymmetries Military Faces Bandwidth Crunch An Evolving Joint Perspective: US Joint Warfare and Crisis Resolution in the 21st Century Enabling a Transformation in Joint Operations Transformation of Special Operations: Reducing Joint Friction Base Structure Report: Fiscal Year 2003 Baseline Global Strike Task Force and Stryker Brigade Combat Team: Prospects for Integration in the Forcible Entry Mission Transformation: Are We on a Joint Path? Meeting the Anti-Access and Area-Denial Challenge Operation Iraqi Freedom: A First-Blush Assessment Military Transformation and the Defense Industry after Next The Silence of the Labs The Real Transformation: Building and Maintaining Long-Term Competitive Advantage Defense Acquisitions: Factors Affecting Outcomes of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations VAdm Cebrowski Speech Effects Based Operations: Applying Network Centric Warfare in Peace, Crisis, and War Navy-Air Force Plan to Modernize Electronic Warfare is Unconvincing Tech Firms Seek To Play Role In Military Transformation Effort Interoperability: Is It Achievable? Chemical and Biological Defense: Observations on DOD's Risk Assessment of Defense Capabilities Papers from 7th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium Concept of C4I Data Fusion Command Center for Urban Operations Networked Underwater Warfare TDP - A Concept Demonstrator for Multi-platform Operations A Paradigm for Integrated Warfighting: Kinetic and Non-kinetic Solutions Small Navies and Network Centric Warfare: Is There a Role? Command, Control (C2) and Coalition Interoperability Post 911: Introducing the Network Centric Infrastructure for Command, Control and Intelligence (NICCI) Project Metanet: Methods of Analysis for Complex Networks Intelligent Nodes in Coalition Warfare Everything You Think You Know About the American Way of War Is Wrong Military Experimentation Effort Slow to Get Off the Ground Incompatible Battle-Command Systems: There's No Easy Fix Can We Put the Leaders of the
"Axis of Evil" in the Crosshairs? A New War Demands a New
Military Rumsfeld the Radical U.S. Military Operations at Home and Abroad: Learning from September 11 Transformation Concepts for National Security in the 21st Century America's Innovative Advantage: Systems Integration in the U.S. Defense Industry Demystifying 'Transformation' Military Transformation: Actions Needed to Better Manage DoD's Joint Experimentation Program Military Transformation: Actions Needed to Better Manage DOD's Joint Experimentation Program Military Transformation and the Roots of National Security Gen. Jumper: Time to Change Traditional Program Advocacy Congressional Aid Finds Spending on "Core Readiness" in Decline The Pentagon's New Budget, New Strategy, and New War The Pentagon's New Budget, New Strategy, and New War Terrorism and the Transformation of U.S. Military Forces The 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, the FY 2003 Defense Budget Request and the Way Ahead for Transformation: Meeting the "Rumsfeld Test" Empty Promises: Why the Bush Administration's Half-Hearted Attempts at Defense Reform Have Failed Information Age Transformation Getting to a 21st Century Military (EXE file produces PDF) Base Structure Report: Fiscal Year 2002 Baseline Mr. Smith Is Dead: No One Stands in the Way as Congress Laces Post-September 11 Defense Bills with Pork Information Technology: DoD Needs to Improve Process for Ensuring Interoperability of Telecommunications Switches Enabling Operational Maneuver From Strategic Distances Military Transformation:
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance The Growing Demand for Better Military Communications Military Transformation and Legacy Forces Seeking Synergy: Joint-Effects Based Operations Military Transformation for Warfare in the 21st Century: Balancing Implications of Urban Operations and Emerging Joint Operational Concepts Ushering In the Warfare Information Age The President's FY2003 Defense Request: Winning the War, Transformation, and Reform Lighting the Path Ahead: Field Exercises and Transformation 2003 Defense Budget Request: Large Increase in Funding, Few Changes to Plans An Interoperability Roadmap for C4ISR Legacy Systems Equipping Tomorrow's Military Force: Integration of Commercial and Military Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond Rapid Decisive Operations: Getting the Structure Right Rapid Decisive Operations: An Assumptions-Based Critique Arming Soldiers for a New Kind of War Special Operations Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom: Background and Issues for Congress Building A Battlespace Wide Web Interoperability: Is It Achievable? Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act: Has it Worked? US Must Reappraise Weaponry Resurrecting Transformation for the Post-Industrial Era Reforging Sword: Forces for the 21st Century Security Strategy Crucified on a Cross of Goldwater-Nichols How We Fight: A Dominating Maneuver
Doctrinal Essay The Joint Force: A Decade, No Progress Disjointed War: Military Operations in Kosovo, 1999 Will the Bush/Rumsfeld Pentagon Endorse Existing Plans to Worsen Military Readiness? Reorganizing America's Military for the 21st Century The Bush Administration's Call for Defense Transformation: A Congressional Guide Three Myths About DoD's Weapons Modernization Requirements Pentagon's Unreliable Bookkeeping Stands as Obstacle to Bush Reforms Financial Accountability and Contractor Oversight Failures Thinking about Innovation A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd Did a National Defense Review? A Concept for Rapid Decisive Operations War gaming in the Information Age Global 2000 Transforming Warfare with Effects-Based
Joint Operations. Transforming Military Operational Capabilities he New American Defense Policy Trim Pentagon Fat Piercing the Fog Bank: America's Military Needs to Re-Examine its
Most Basic Premises National Strategies and Capabilities for a
Changing World Joint Vision 2020 Toward a Smaller,
More Efficient, and More Relevant US Military Defense Disconnect: How Interop is Challenging the Top Brass Ready for What? Failed
States and Casualty Phobia: Implications for Force Structure and
Technology Choices Seeking a National Strategy: A Concert for Preserving Security and
Promoting Freedom Military Experimentation--Time To Get Serious Do
Mobile Satellite Service Systems Fundamentally Improve Military
Communications (pdf download) Defense Science & Technology Strategy & Plans Defense Science & Technology Strategy Basic Research Plan (links to pdf docs) Defense Technology Area Plan (menu links to pdf docs) Joint Warfighting Science & Technology Plan (menu links to pdf docs) Defense Technology Objectives (menu links to pdf docs) Annual Report to the President and Congress. Secretary of Defense,
Department of Defense, 2000. Joint Vision 2010 Technology Revolutionizing Warfare Buying Smart Transforming US Forces: Lessons from a Wider Revolution Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future Informational Warfare: US Organizational Activities DOD's Current Force Transformation Activities
Transformation Modernization Strategy Science, Technology And Military Strength
Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force DoD Warfighting Transformation A Concept Framework for Rapid Decisive Operations in the 21st Century Military Operations: Status of DOD Efforts to Develop Future Warfighting Capability Why No Transformation?
Command and Control for Joint Strategic Action A Vanguard Force: Accelerating the American Revolution in Military Affairs
Transforming the American Military
Understanding the Revolution in Military Affairs: A Guide to America's 21st
Century Defense
The Emerging U.S. System-of-Systems
Dominant Battlespace Knowledge
Ready for What and Modernized Against Whom?
Transforming National Defense
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