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3 National Security and Technological Environments and Their Effects
3 National Security and Technological Environments and Their Effects
Pages 17-26
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and information (with dramatically increased computing power and advanced datahandling capacity) were judged to have the most potential for improving the readiness and effectiveness of reserve components and their integration with active components.
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Some examples of the military's use of advanced technologies are described below: Precision weapons, with unprecedented worldwide mobility and long-range, all-weather capabilities, will be used on various platforms. · The combination of precision weapons and effective sensors, command-and-control systems, and accurate reconnaissance, surveillance, intelligence, target tracking, and target acquisition systems will change the nature of military operations and tactics.
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Also, if advanced technologies introduce requirements for increased training time that are not offset by improvements in training efficiency, the reserve components' limited opportunities for training may put them at a disadvantage relative to the active components. In short, the positive and negative influences of advanced technologies on the integration of the reserve and active components have to be recognized.
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Experts disagree about the response times for Army However, even if warning times are short, Selected Reserve units will play critical roles in mobilization, airlift, and U.S.-based activities in support of regional commanders. Because information and communications technologies have the potential to provide all units, anywhere on the globe, with a common operational picture, "remote staffs" could conduct integrated planning and support activities from geographically separated locations.
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This focus is consistent with the military' s joint vision and operating concepts for the year 2010, which encompass a variety of advanced communications and information technologies that underlie many of the plans for fighting wars more effectively. These two technologies will be fundamental to improving reserve components' ability to provide timely support for active components and joint military commanders.
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The security aspects of using advanced communications and information technologies are explored in Commercial Multimedia Technologies for Twenty-First Century Army Battlefields, which includes the following statements: "Commercial technology in the area of security is evolving rapidly...The committee believes it is likely that at least some large classes of Army security applications can be satisfied by [commercial off-the-shelf] security technologies, even if there remains a significant residual set of applications that must be served by Army-specific developments....The Army, and the DoD as a whole, can stimulate the development and accelerate the use of robust security protocols built on publicly available technologies" (NRC, 1995~.
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Readiness A challenge for reserve components of the twentyfirst century will be to achieve a higher state of readiness in peacetime and to compress the time required for them to mobilize, train, and deploy to operating locations for a wide range of military missions. The committee believes that the new deployment commitments of reserve components, particularly combat forces, require that communications and information technologies be used to improve their readiness to operate alongside active components.
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were replicated and distributed in near-real time, then dispersed members of the reserve components could have the advantage of the same kind of training currently available to active components (and to some reservists) at the National Training Center and Red Flag.7 Constructive simulations will exercise staffs at all echelons and include joint operations.
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For example, when forces were sent to Bosnia, the European Command staff was substantially expanded to support them, and hundreds of reserve personnel were sent to Europe temporarily to assist in staff planning. For both Bosnia and Operation Desert Storm, reserve component units were mobilized and deployed in the continental United States to provide logistics support for forces deployed overseas.
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staff elements may benefit substantially from remote staffing because of their need for diverse data and expertise. By 2010, well trained remote staffs that have access to expertise for special events and unique situations, or TECHNOLOGY-BASED PILOT PROGRAMS that can simply augment the capabilities of forwardbased commanders, will become more common.
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