Programs
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Transatlantic Coalition Building
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Concept Development & Experimentation
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Programs/
Transatlantic Coalition Building:
The Evolution of U.S. Joint Doctrine & its Impact on U.S.-French Interoperability
Network Centric Operations
Building a Comprehensive Plan for an Ad Doc Coalition: Enabling Crisis Resolution & a Viable Exit Strategy for Multinational Partners
Quadripartie Working Group on Coalition Military Operations
Network Centric Operations
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U.S.-CREST conducted a two-part study on network-centric operations from 2003 to 2005, sponsored by the French Ministry of Defense. The study sought to underline recent evolutions in terms of net-centricity in the United States and several European countries (the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden) and explored their implications for multinational operations.
The study first provides an overview of the conceptual developments of "net-centric operations", stemming from the U.S. Navy's concept of Network Centric Warfare, both in the U.S. and among partner nations.
It then looks more closely at the main evolutions outside of the U.S. , namely at the British Network Enabled Capability, Germany's defense transformation, as well as Swedish and Australian perspectives on the new operational approaches offered by networked capabilities.
The third part of the study focuses on a detailed look at recent evolutions in the U.S: in addition to discussing the strategic context for these evolutions, it describes achievements relative to networked operations within DOD and in a joint environment, while a separate section is dedicated to the DOD's efforts to normalize the interconnection of classified networks with those of its coalition partners. Finally, the report deals with the characteristics to be expected of network centric operations, discusses the implications for multinational operations and underlines the importance of joint concept development and experimentation in the evolution of networked approaches.
The study concludes that there is currently a window of opportunity for Europe to harmonize the necessary evolutions in the field of networked operations among the main defense actors.