Navy Intel Chief: Information Dominance Must Balance Firepower
By Karen Parrish, American Forces Press Service, 6 January 2011
WASHINGTON (NNS) — “Information as warfare” requires operational commanders to employ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to dominate the information realm even as they direct combat actions, the Navy's senior intelligence officer said Jan. 5.
Vice Adm. David J. “Jack” Dorsett, the director of naval intelligence and deputy chief of naval operations for information dominance, spoke to defense writers about what he called a shift from an Industrial Age military force to an Information Age force.
“We're great at strike warfare – dropping bombs,” Dorsett said. “It's now time for the Navy, and frankly the U.S. joint forces, to step up and start dealing with information in a much more sophisticated manner than they have in the past.”
Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, announced in October 2009 the Navy was combining its intelligence directorate, communications networks and related information technology capabilities into the information dominance organization.
Phi Beta Iota: Ms. Karen Parrish has done a superb job with this interview, which is rich in candid detail. What it makes clear is that Navy (as well as the Army) are making major changes in concepts & doctrine toward integration intelligence, communications, and information technology and as this article documents even starting to think about processing, dissemination, and exploitation. Both appear to be focused on machine collection and machine processing and not yet appreciative of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) across the fifteen slices and eight tribes as well as multinationally (M4IS2).
Rest of article also below line–it's worth saving.
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