Virtual Integrated Planning and Execution Resource System (VIPERS): The High Ground of 2025

摘要

Effective command and control systems magnify the unique characteristics of air and space power: flexibility, speed, range, responsiveness, precision, and observation. By 2025, plans, decisions, and actions will occur rapidly and with insight into a potential adversary's movements. Our ability to observe, analyze, and predict will reveal an enemy's weakness and possible intent. By extending the conceptual horizon of the war fighter, we will foster a paralyzing tempo and inhibit the enemy's ability to react or recover. This paper takes a high-ground approach concerning combat support in the future. It describes combat support in terms of people, processes, and products and posits a more descriptive name for combat support in 2025 force support.