Decision Making for Resilience within the Context of Network Centric Operations

摘要

Recent calls from the US White House for enhanced resilience of our critical infrastructure in the face of persistent threats, (both natural and manmade), underscores the importance of developing and adopting a resilience- focused approach within individual communities, organizations, the DOD, and the Nation. However, the concept of resilience is still not well understood and varies across disciplines. In this paper, we study two proposed definitions of resilience, one from the National Academy of Sciences and one from the literature on Command and Control and Network Centric Operations. The convergences and divergences are explored between these two approaches to resilience (and by extension, related concepts such as agility). This paper proposes a decision making framework that integrates the event management cycle defined by the National Academy of Sciences into a resilience matrix that accounts for the physical, information, cognitive, and social domains in which these systems exist, as defined by Network Centric Operations. This systems- based approach can be used to comparatively assess the relative resilience of different systems and the contributions of individual responses or safeguards to overall system resilience.