Division G6 - Strategic Signal Leadership for Information Superiority in the Army After Next

摘要

No longer facing a single global military threat, the U.S. Army is undergoing profound change as it evolves towards a full-dimension strategic land force for the 21st Century. In the process, the Army is reviewing its organizational structures to adapt to the envisioned global environment and regional battlefields of the Army After Next (AAN). This new Army will leverage the exponential growth in digital information and information systems technologies to successfully execute future missions. Central to this restructuring is the Army's premier warfighting organization-the Division. How should divisions be structured to face unprecedented challenges in the future. This study discusses the role of a new principal staff officer-the Division G6- as a strategic planner and integrator of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems in the AAN. It concludes that establishment of a principal staff element at the division level for all matters of C4ISR systems integration is essential to leveraging information age technologies for the warfighter and providing the necessary strategic signal leadership to achieve information superiority in the AAN.