Organizational Fitness of a Proposed Network Centric Organization
Abstract
Network Centric Warfare (NCW) has emerged as a new concept for the U.S. Navy. NCW
capitalizes on technology to obtain and maintain an enhanced situational awareness and uses the
distributed offensive firepower of the collective force to fight the battle. Speed of Command and
Self-Synchronization are key tenents of NCW. The authors propose an organization designed to
operate in the NCW environment. It consists of the Force Commander and Commanders of
Situational Awareness, Resources, Effects, and Operations. The research question is whether or
not the proposed organization’s is fit in the NCW environment. The organization is studied using
two “snapshots”: one is the planning process and the other is the execution process. The expert
system Organizational Consultant is used to analyze the organization and determine its
organizational fitness. The results indicate that the proposed organization is fit if changes are
made to make the planning process highly centralized and the execution process decentralized.
Formalization will also need to be lowered in the organization.
Description
1999 Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (CCRTS), June 29 - July 1, 1999, U.S. Naval War College, Rhode Island
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