Battlefield Information Systems Change With frying Times

摘要

The U.S. Army is tasked with a three-sided challenge as it seeks to transform its communications-electronics systems. The Army must continue to progress with far-reaching plans that will change the way it conducts military operations; it must respond to warfighters' urgent information technology needs in Afghanistan and Iraq; and it must incorporate changes inspired by lessons learned in those wars into its long-range efforts. This challenge is complicated by the nature of the technology beast. Information technologies continue to evolve rapidly, and the need to insert them rapidly into the war increases the already-high degree of difficulty the Army faces in incorporating them in a timely manner. The asymmetric nature of the fighting in Iraq has elevated the call for many technologies, such as radars and sensors, currently in traditional steady-growth programs. And, many of the new capabilities that are now employed in Iraq increase in importance as a result of experiences there, which changes program priorities across the service and even in the joint arena.