Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3900-1005919713-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 24872 invoked by uid 510); 16 Nov 2001 14:07:19 -0000 Received: from n30.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.80) by all.net with SMTP; 16 Nov 2001 14:07:19 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3900-1005919713-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [10.1.1.221] by n30.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Nov 2001 14:08:33 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 16 Nov 2001 14:08:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 91966 invoked from network); 16 Nov 2001 14:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 Nov 2001 14:08:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 2001 14:08:32 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fAGE9NU30326 for iwar@onelist.com; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:09:23 -0800 Message-Id: <200111161409.fAGE9NU30326@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 06:09:22 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Myers.Says.Warfighter.Interoperability.Is.'Absolutely.Essential'] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit InsideDefense.com November 15, 2001 Myers Says Warfighter Interoperability Is 'Absolutely Essential' Making weapon systems interoperable across the services as well as with foreign allies is a key goal for the Pentagon's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It's absolutely essential to ensure the joint force of the future achieves the highest level of effectiveness and ensure our force is agile enough -- we've got to be agile -- to operate inside the decision loop of even the most capable adversary," Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said today at a conference sponsored by Tufts University's Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy. "So we've got to take advantage of our superior information-gathering systems . . . and develop enhanced knowledge-management tools that will give our commanders the ability to see the right data when they need it." Myers added that "what we are really trying to do here is to dissipate as much as possible the fog of war to enable timely, decisive action by our commanders. And this is a key part of joint war fighting, and all the services need to get it right, and so do we on the Joint Staff, as we help facilitate that." For the chairman, therefore, "the bottom line . . . is our weapons and weapon systems must be designed with joint and coalition interoperability in mind. We've got to do that up front." Myers said having an interoperable command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability is the goal that could "have the biggest impact, because it impacts the ability of the commander to command. . . . We simply must give our Joint Task Force commanders the necessary tools to fully integrate their combat power." To help work this issue, senior Pentagon officials are exploring the idea of what he called a "standing Joint Task Force headquarters," an idea that was included in the recently released Quadrennial Defense Review. Myers said he sees this as "a tool to help push greater interoperability." "The joint force headquarters would have a robust command and control, communications, computer, and intelligence architecture that all future weapon platforms or communication systems and any upgrades to existing systems would have to be designed to plug in to," he said. Senior Defense Department officials are also counting on the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, chaired by Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to push for reforms in this area. "Our intent is that any system brought forward to the JROC for review must be shown to be interoperable with those systems," Myers said. "And by the way, this is not an easy task because, before you decide how it has to be interoperable, you have to have the operational concept of how this all fits together. That is the more difficult issue before us, and so that's one that the Joint Requirements Oversight Council is working on," he said. -- John Liang ------------------------ Yahoo! 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