Making the Information Manager (G6/J6): Leveraging Information Management to Achieve Information Dominance.

摘要

The three primary communications disciplines offered to signal officers by the U.S. Army Signal Corps separately do not meet the educational and training needs required of the G6/J6 Information Manager to support future doctrine. In that context, should the U.S. Army Signal School's institutional training and educational programs for its three primary officer disciplines; Basic Branch 25, Functional Area 24 and Functional Area 53, be restructured in order to provide signal officers the proper tools necessary to become an effective G6/J6 Information Manager; supporting the complex and vast informational requirements of the future warfighter. The Army Signal Corps face tremendous challenges in educating, training and aligning the proper skill-sets required of its officers to successfully assist the Army and the joint community in meeting Joint Vision 2020 objectives in information technology. Developing effective, confident and skilled Army Information Managers is essential in ensuring not only Army, but Joint warfighters as well achieve and enjoy information dominance across the entire spectrum of conflict. In the draft version of the new FM 6.0, Command and Control, the Army's information management function is assigned to the G6 (Army Signal Officer). To properly fulfill the roles and functions of the G6/J6, it is my belief that Signal Officers must be trained and educated in a cross-section of skills pulled from each of the three specific signal disciplines. The future G6/J6 Information Manager must be multi-talented, skilled and educated not only in the installation, operation and maintenance of traditional communications systems, but also proficient in tactical operations, intelligence and information systems technologies- including data network engineering and computer network and system design.