Enabling the Joint Warfight - Information Advantage

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Enabling the Joint Warfight: Information Advantage

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have embraced the revision of the Joint Warfighting Concept through the adoption of the first 4 Strategic Directives. The strategic directives, intended to serve as requirements frameworks around which new operational concepts for modern, distributed, information-based warfare can be developed, are:

• Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2)
• Joint Fires
• Contested Logistics
• Information Advantage

This final workshop in the series will offer a deep dive into Information Advantage, and seek to answer the following:

• What is the Strategic Directive of “Information Advantage” trying to achieve, and how will this be different than the capabilities that exist today?
• How will Information Advantage enhance other DoD capabilities?
• It is likely that developing a more effective Information Advantage capability will require investment in data collection, networking, data processing, Artificial Intelligence, investment in understanding whether or not information / data is reliable (in real time), and other areas.Is it possible to develop capabilities in a spiral, and how does the US develop a flexible architecture to support growth?
• What are the critical tasks or segments of the end-to-end Information Advantage “system” that cannot be addressed or afforded today?
• What technical, engineering, or doctrinal efforts are most critical to develop.
• To what extent do you see data gathered by “traditional” sources and data gathered from social media as complimentary?What are the advantages and pitfalls of this type of architecture?
• Presuming a distributed architecture is preferred to a centralized architecture, what capabilities are needed to maintain information agility?
• What program /system in development today could most accelerate Information Advantage capabilities?
• How does the US open the capabilities coming from Information Advantage to friends and allies?
• Are there sufficient models to guide system and doctrinal trades to develop enhanced Information Advantage?
• Does the current force structure adequately support Information Advantage?If not, how would fix this?