Master Classes
17th April 2008
10.30 to 13.00
Effects-Based Approaches to Operations – the Next Generation:
Connecting Stovepipes Well Left and Right of Boom
Workshop Leader:
Mark N. Clemente,
Senior Effects-Based Analyst
The Boeing Company
Rationale:
Iraq, Afghanistan, Stability & Reconstruction, Disaster Relief -- from Phase ZERO to Phase FIVE -- complex, cross domain challenges pull disparate, functional entities to the point of action, where they have to coordinate time, talent and resources, oftentimes ad-hoc. Organizations that do not all answer to the same drum, with different funding streams, and sometimes competing agendas –brought together – whether they like it or not; whether they do it well, or poorly. Pulling together multivariate functional groups – that tend to act as stovepipes -- will take more than a common network, common operating picture and compatible communications.
Benefits
- See how NATO views the implementation of EBAO at the same time they wrestle with how to blend defense, diplomacy, development and economic persuasion in a more “comprehensive approach” to global security.
- Understand how multivariate systems can better approach complex challenges.
- Understand why diverse teams are quantitatively able to solve a wider array of problems in a complex world than traditional industrial specialized teams.
- Learn how “sensitivity to Initial Conditions” influences linkage of effectors to effects in commanders' estimates
- Understand the nature of an effects-based environment, how effects develop and can be measured.
Workshop Leader
Mark Clemente joined Boeing’s Washington Studies and Analysis Group in 2007 after a 27 year career in the U.S. Navy. He joined a small research analysis group that seeks insight on future warfighting capabilities and trends. His primary area of research is effects-based approaches to operations and whole of government solutions. He has presented papers at international C2 and complexity forums … and most recently orchestrated and lectured at the NATO Research & Technology Organization Lecture Series on Effects-Based Approach to Operations.
He was also the Executive Director of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel; which pulled together some of the best and brightest minds from academia, industry and government to help the last two Chiefs of Naval Operations make sense of difficult policy and strategy issues.
14.30 to 17.00
Workshop Leader:
Fred Stein,
C3 Director,
THE MITRE CORPORATION
Explore the latest technologies in NCW: Asses how this influences Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, and examine the impact on the design of your existing and future systems
Rationale:
This Masterclass will describe, discuss and inform on the foundation technologies that support the Information Age and NCW Operations. It will use current and future operational examples to set the stage to discuss the foundation technologies. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how you can surmount the technological, generational cultural and organisational barriers to NCW implementation.
Benefits:
The workshop will cover the culture, organizational , social, technical and generational challenges to implementing network centric operations
- The organizational aspect: addressing the issues of communities of interest
- Social and generational: Addressing the digital natives and their needs and under the technical
- Web Two technologies on information sharing, knowledge management and security
Fred is a retired Colonel of the United States Army, and joined the MITRE Corporation in April 1998. He is currently the MITRE’s Senior Principal Engineer for Network Centric Warfare. His position and location at Ft. Hood, Texas within the Central Technical and Support Facility provide him the opportunity to interface directly with the Army as it digitizes its force and moves toward the Future Combat Systems. He currently supports the Army G8, Office of Force Transformation and Electronic Systems Command. Among Fred’s accomplishments is the book, “Network Centric Warfare”, which he co-authored with two colleagues, David Alberts and John Garstka. As technology continues to evolve, Fred Stein remains on the cutting edge of his profession as he continues to seek out innovative ideas and concepts as they apply to supporting Commanders and Staffs.