Information Age Assessment Applied to Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection

摘要

The Information Age Framework for Assessment, inspired by John Zachman, posits a new way to account for the value of information-intensive investments by focusing not just on the current process or product but on the increased ability of the organization to perform its mission and adapt to a changing environment. The 'Warfighter's Associate' is a future concept of a robotic assistant to the warfighter that would leverage the advantages of robotics to improve the effectiveness of the warfighter much as a police dog improves the performance of the policeman acting alone. This capability will be shown to powerfully and positively affect the performance of a war fighting organization. This paper addresses how a Warfighter's Associate would provide an Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) capability and how the Associate should be appropriately assessed to understand its true benefit in a networked environment (like FORCEnet for the US Navy, or the Global Information Grid (GIG) for the US DoD).