Black Box Conundrum of Network Centric Warfare

摘要

The revolution occurring in the United States stock market has leveraged technological enhancements and brought about changes in the fundamental way business is conducted. Adaptations of enhanced systems and lessons learned from that revolution lend themselves for direct application to the concept of Network Centric Warfare. Successfully adapting those advances will therefore be the enabler through which we will use NCW to leverage shared awareness and time compression to ultimately bridge the gap from Battlespace Awareness to Information Superiority. The existence of a single black boxes-a singular centralized command and control system-will likely not evolve. The realized system will ultimately consist of the collaboration of information synthesized from a series of black boxes. The establishment of a system adapted from the stock market model which combines the various functions of Electronic Communication Networks, customized 'superbooths' of floor traders, and the Pacific Exchange's Optimark(Trademark) system will work to facilitate a comprehensive NCW system. This resultant system will lead to consolidation, efficiency, and consistency but requires the relinquishment of control over current proprietary systems.