Download or read book Problems Associated with the Worldwide Military Command and Control System written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems Associated With the Worldwide Military Command and Control System

Download or read book National Defense written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Download or read book The World Wide Military Command and Control System evolution and effectiveness written by David Eric Pearson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the best single way to summarize it is to view the book as a bureaucratic or organizational history. What the author does is to take three distinct historical themes-organization, technology, and ideology and examine how each contributed to the development of WWMCCS and its ability (and frequent inability) to satisfy the demands of national leadership. Whereas earlier works were primarily descriptive, cataloguing the command and control assets then in place or under development, The book offers more analysis by focusing on the issue of how and why WWMCCS developed the way it did. While at first glance less provocative, this approach is potentially more useful for defense decision makers dealing with complex human and technological systems in the post-cold-war era. It also makes for a better story and, I trust, a more interesting read. By necessity, this work is selective. The elements of WWMCCS are so numerous, and the parameters of the system potentially so expansive, that a full treatment is impossible within the compass of a single volume. Indeed, a full treatment of even a single WWMCCS asset or subsystem-the Defense Satellite Communications System, Extremely Low Frequency Communications, the National Military Command System, to name but a few-could itself constitute a substantial work. In its broadest conceptualization, WWMCCS is the world, and my approach has been to deal with the head of the octopus rather than its myriad tentacles.

Download or read book Review of Department of Defense Command Control and Communications Systems and Facilities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Command, Control, and Communications Panel and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Air Force and the Worldwide Military Command and Control System 1961 1965 written by Office of Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force and the Worldwide Military Command and Control System, 1961-1965, is a companion volume to Arthur K. Marmor's USAF Command and Control Problems, 1958-1961. It seeks to trace major developments in the continuing effort to provide the nation's leaders with command and control facilities for assessing and responding to crises which require, or might require, commitment of America's military forces. Since decisions on most of these developments are made by the President or the Office of the Secretary of Defense it is frequently difficult to pinpoint the Air Force role in them. They remain very much a part of Air Force history, however. The Air Force contributes many of its most highly skilled officers to the joint agencies that build, operate, and support elements of the worldwide military command and control system. Air Staff officers serve on the joint planning groups that conceive the facilities. And nearly every Air Staff section furnishes support to these planning groups.

Download or read book Worldwide Military Command and Control System Consolidation in the Pacific Theater written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final report discusses DoD Hotline allegations that the consolidation plan for the Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) host computer sites in the Pacific Theater is not cost-effective. A draft of this report was provided to USPACOM for comment on January 28,1993. Comments on the draft report were provided on April 7, 1993. Based on documentation provided by USPACOM in response to the draft report, a recommendation to reduce one-time consolidation costs by $21,000 was dropped from this final report. For the two remaining recommendations, USPACOM nonconcurred with Recommendation 1. and the associated potential monetary benefits and concurred with Recommendation 2. but failed to provide an implementation date for the corrective action. Details on the unresolved issues are discussed in Part II of the report. The Pacific Command, through its subordinate commands, operated four Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) host computer sites and planned to establish a fifth site in FY 1993. In February 1992, the U.S. Pacific Command proposed consolidating the five host computer sites into two sites: one at the U.S. Army Pacific, Fort Shafter; and one at the U.S. Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base. The audit objective was to evaluate the validity of a Hotline allegation that the U.S. Pacific Command's WWMCCS consolidation plan was not cost-effective.

Download or read book Nuclear Command Control and Communications written by James J. Wirtz and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he first overview of US NC3 since the 1980s, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications explores the current NC3 system and its vital role in ensuring effective deterrence, contemporary challenges posed by cyber threats, new weapons technologies, and the need to modernize the United States’ Cold War–era system of systems.

Download or read book Hotline Allegations Relating to the Worldwide Military Command and Control System Consolidation in the European Theater written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. In FY 1992, the U.S. European Command, through its subordinate commands, operated four Worldwide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) host computer sites. The WWMCCS host computer sites for U.S. Mr Forces Europe and U.S. Naval Forces Europe have been consolidated at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. In July 1992, the U.S. European Command submitted a proposal to the Joint Staff to consolidate the WWMCCS host computer sites for the U.S. Army Europe and U.S. European Command at Patch Barracks, Germany. In July 1992, a Hotline allegation was made to the Inspector General, DoD, that the proposed consolidation plan contained major deficiencies and was not cost-effective.

Download or read book Realizing the Potential of C4I written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-06-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid progress in information and communications technologies is dramatically enhancing the strategic role of information, positioning effective exploitation of these technology advances as a critical success factor in military affairs. These technology advances are drivers and enablers for the "nervous system" of the militaryâ€"its command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) systemsâ€"to more effectively use the "muscle" side of the military. Authored by a committee of experts drawn equally from the military and commercial sectors, Realizing the Potential of C4I identifies three major areas as fundamental challenges to the full Department of Defense (DOD) exploitation of C4I technologyâ€"information systems security, interoperability, and various aspects of DOD process and culture. The book details principles by which to assess DOD efforts in these areas over the long term and provides specific, more immediately actionable recommendations. Although DOD is the focus of this book, the principles and issues presented are also relevant to interoperability, architecture, and security challenges faced by government as a whole and by large, complex public and private enterprises across the economy.

Download or read book C2 Policy Evolution at the U S Department of Defense WWMCCS to a Unified Military Command Capability written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary command and control policy document for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been unchanged since 1971, the last time that DoD Directive 5100.30 titled The World Wide Military Command and Control System was published. Since this publication has, in effect, been obsolete for at least 10-15 years, one could argue that we have been operating without a Department-level C2 policy for at least that long. By all accounts, as witnessed during recent conflict, our tactical forces are doing a better job of C2 than ever before. The same might not be said for national and strategic C2. Nor may we believe coalition C2 is improved. This situation then begs the following questions: is tactical C2 better because we have no effective department-level policy or in spite of that fact? Is a broad Departmental policy for command and control required only at the strategic and national level, and, if so, what should it address? Is DoD C2 policy necessary to address strategic or tactical C2; national or global issues: regional or theater concerns: or should it be directed primarily toward the joint and coalition environment, or all of the above. A more basic issue is what areas of C2 should be addressed. Some potential categories that come to mind are national, strategic, nuclear, global, regional, theater, joint, tactical, coalition, etc. Finally, but not of least importance, regardless of the categories selected, is a C2 policy needed to determine who should be in charge of ensuring command and control capabilities, at any level, meet the needs of the warfighter and how do these roles and responsibilities fit with legislative and regulatory mandates? Importantly, as we move into a net-centric environment, does C2 change? Is an entirely new policy required that transcends previous policy? Logically, it seems a DoD directive that codifies overall C2 policy for the Department should be at the forefront of DoD directives.

Download or read book Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack written by Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Our nation faces the distinct possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack using an improvised nuclear device (IND), according to international and U.S. intelligence. Detonation of an IND in a major U.S. city would result in tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of victims and would overwhelm public health, emergency response, and health care systems, not to mention creating unprecedented social and economic challenges. While preparing for an IND may seem futile at first glance, thousands of lives can be saved by informed planning and decision making prior to and following an attack. In 2009, the Institute of Medicine published the proceedings of a workshop assessing the health and medical preparedness for responding to an IND detonation. Since that time, multiple federal and other publications have added layers of detail to this conceptual framework, resulting in a significant body of literature and guidance. However, there has been only limited planning effort at the local level as much of the federal guidance has not been translated into action for states, cities and counties. According to an informal survey of community preparedness by the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO), planning for a radiation incident ranked lowest in priority among other hazards by 2,800 local health departments. The focus of Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack: Medical and Public Health Considerations for Neighboring Jurisdictions: Workshop Summary is on key response requirements faced by public health and health care systems in response to an IND detonation, especially those planning needs of outlying state and local jurisdictions from the detonation site. The specific meeting objectives were as follows:- Understand the differences between types of radiation incidents and implications of an IND attack on outlying communities.-Highlight current planning efforts at the federal, state, and local level as well as challenges to the implementation of operational plans.-Examine gaps in planning efforts and possible challenges and solutions.-Identify considerations for public health reception centers: how public health and health care interface with functions and staffing and how radiological assessments and triage be handled.-Discuss the possibilities and benefits of integration of disaster transport systems.-Explore roles of regional health care coalitions in coordination of health care response.

Download or read book C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of this construct is the need for flexible, adaptive command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. To assist development of this capability, the Navy asked the NRC to examine C4ISR for carrier, expeditionary, and strike and missile defense strike groups, and for expeditionary strike forces. This report provides an assessment of C4ISR capabilities for each type of strike group; recommendations for C4ISR architecture for use in major combat operations; promising technology trends; and an examination of organizational improvements that can enable the recommended architecture.

Download or read book User s Guide for JOPES Joint Operation Planning and Execution System written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Vietnam Studies Command and Control 1950 1969 Illustrated Edition written by Major General George S. Eckhardt and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 11 charts, 1 map, and 20 illustrations] “In combat situations prior to Vietnam, U.S. military forces had an existing command and control structure which could be tailored to accomplish the task at hand. In Europe during World War II General Dwight D. Eisenhower modified the command structures developed for the North African and Mediterranean operations to form Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). After his departure from Bataan in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur had several months in which to design the command structure that ultimately contributed to the defeat of the Japanese...There, the command and control arrangements, which ultimately directed a U.S. Military force of over 500,000 men, evolved from a small military assistance mission established in 1950. The Military Assistance Advisory Group’s philosophy of assistance rather than command significantly influenced the development of the organization. “This monograph describes the development of the U. S. military command and control structure in Vietnam. The focus of the study is primarily on the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), and the U.S. Army in Vietnam (USARV). The relationships with the joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Commander in Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC), U.S. Army, Pacific (USARPAC), and other outside agencies are discussed only as their decisions, policies, and directives affected MACV and operations within South Vietnam. The air war against North Vietnam and naval operations of the U.S. Seventh Fleet were CINCPAC’s responsibilities and are only mentioned in regard to their impact on MACV and the forces under MACV. “This study is not a conventional military or diplomatic history of the war in Vietnam. Rather, it is an analytical appraisal of the command and control structure.”

Download or read book Understanding Command and Control written by David Stephen Alberts and published by Ccrp Publication Series. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understanding Command and Control is the first in a new series of CCRP Publications that will explore the future of Command and Control ... This book begins at the beginning: focusing on the problem(s) Command and Control was designed (and has evolved) to solve. It is only by changing the focus from what Command and Control is to why Command and Control is that we will place ourselves in a position to move on"--Preface.