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The Director of
the U.S. Department of Defense Command and Control Research
Program (CCRP) and the Australian Department of Defence,
Defence Science and Technology Organization, welcome
you to the 5th International Command and
Control Research and Technology Symposium.
The theme for this year’s symposium
is Working Together. As complex coalition operations
become the apparent twenty-first century norm, we need
to explore and exploit better and more efficient ways
to work together. This involves not only military-to-military
interoperability, but also the ability of government
agencies as well as a host of non-government and private
voluntary organizations to work effectively together.
Interoperability is the cornerstone of any such effort.
By
bringing together experts from both the operational
and technical communities from several countries, this
symposium seeks to explore the nature of future military
operations including coalition operations and new approaches
to command and control within the context of the Information
Age environment. This symposium offers an opportunity
to "push the envelope" in planning for emerging
conflicts in an uncertain environment.
The morning sessions
of this year’s symposium are devoted to invited speakers
from several countries. They represent the policy and
operational communities and private industry and will
address the nature of emerging challenges and their
impact on critical command and control issues, new approaches
and concepts for command and control architectures,
organizations, doctrine, and command and control decision
making and of special importance, interoperability.
Afternoon sessions are organized into four parallel
sessions. We realize that you may not be able to attend
every session that you would like. However, all the
papers are available on this CDROM and on the CCRP Website:
www.dodccrp.org. |
