Who Runs What in the Global Information Grid: Ways to Share Local and Global Responsibility

by Libicki, Martin C.

• ISBN13: 9780833028884
• ISBN10: 083302888X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Information provided to warfighters only gave them broad situational awareness, today, information from sensors and databases can help target past what they can see. This has prompted the Department of Defense (DoD) to build a military analog to the Inte

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Tables	vii
Summary	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Abbreviations	xvii
Introduction	1	(10)
What Is at Issue?	4	(3)
Key Assumptions	7	(2)
Report Organization	9	(2)
Centralize or Decentralize?	11	(6)
The Case for Centralization	11	(1)
The Case for Decentralization	12	(2)
Some Limits of Economic Logic	14	(1)
Summary	15	(2)
Who Provides the Data?	17	(12)
A Sensor-Centric Approach	18	(5)
Global Sensors	18	(1)
Local Sensors	19	(1)
The Difficult Global-Local Nexus	19	(1)
Sensor Coordination	20	(2)
Bureacuratic Barriers	22	(1)
A Mission-Centric Approach	23	(4)
Summary	27	(2)
Who Provides Which Services?	29	(12)
Where Should Analysis Take Place?	29	(1)
Information Services	30	(4)
Peer-to-Peer Coordination	31	(1)
Validation and Reconciliation	32	(1)
(Un-) Common Knowledge	33	(1)
System Management Issues	34	(3)
Network Management	34	(1)
Tool Hosting	35	(1)
Allocation Management	35	(1)
Standards and Cross-System Access	36	(1)
How Large a Core?	37	(2)
Summary	39	(2)
Conclusion	41	(8)
Recapitulation	42	(1)
Recommendations	43	(3)
Summary	46	(3)
Appendix A Global Provisioning of Local Equipment	49	(4)
Appendix B Twenty-One Missions Analyzed	53