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Requirements for Better C2 and Situational Awareness of the Information Environment
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Paul, Christopher Clarke, Colin Triezenberg, Bonnie L. Manheim, David Wilson, Bradley |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | • Situational awareness solutions for the IE are not onesize-fits-all. Solutions should be matched to a command’s context and priorities. For many reasons—including recent operational experiences and Russian information aggression—the information environment (IE) is ascending as a consideration in how U.S. military operations are planned, exercised, and conducted. However, the IE is still not as central to these activities as it should be. Increased technological sophistication and the availability of advanced communication networks have rendered the IE more extensive, complicated, and complex than ever before. And efforts to coordinate and conduct military operations in and through this environment are beset with a “fog-of-war” problem not unlike that experienced in the traditional domains of air, land, and sea. How can U.S. forces maintain situational awareness of the IE? What exactly does situational awareness mean in the context of the IE? Given the difficulties associated with bounding, comprehending, and meaningfully observing even small portions of the operationally relevant IE, what steps must the U.S. Department of Defense take to effectively assert command and control (C2) and situational awareness over operations in the IE (OIE), including the ability to organize, understand, plan, direct, and monitor these operations? Once concepts for C2 and situational awareness for the IE are identified, how should they be integrated and implemented at the geographic combatant commands? Which staffs, structures, or organizations should have responsibility for C2 and situational awareness in the IE? At what echelons? Answering these questions required framing the problem as one both specific to the IE and representative of broader operational challenges and opportunities. The findings discussed here are supported by an extensive literature and document review, which revealed conceptual and practical challenges and opportunities related to the IE, along with case studies across the range of military operations and interviews with stakeholders and subject-matter experts to expand, refine, and validate the initial lists of challenges and requirements. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.7249/rb10032 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10032/RAND_RB10032.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.7249/rb10032 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
