Data Tracking in the DoD, from Army Logistics to Net-Centric Warfare

摘要

Data is largely intangible: particularly to organizations such as the US Army, electronic entries in a database seem insignificant compared to the physical assets of equipment, personnel, and materiel. However, data has value when used to support decisions, and organizations incur costs to collect, store, and transmit data. Of course, the use of data to derive information and support decisions depends on the accuracy or quality of that data.