Network-centric operations can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of any business operation. By employing the power of net-centricity, the government, businesses and personal lives can be improved significantly. But, as with any endeavor, we must adopt new approaches even for network-centric operations.

I have been privileged to serve with the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) and to work on developing a future strategy for network-centric operations (NCO). Over the past year, we have considered the future of NCO and how business models and work environments should evolve. It is clear to me that interoperability among diverse organizations is unachievable without significant changes.

Continuous improvement in cybersecurity, situational awareness, decision making and response to events across all organizational venues is a national imperative and is being driven by speed. Technology is evolving at a rate that continues to leave behind those who lack the agility to accommodate its accelerating rate of change. Achieving this agility requires institutionalizing a culture of risk taking and risk management, along with streamlined acquisition processes.

The single enterprise concept or vertically oriented approach is not the answer. Power lies in shaping and advancing information and knowledge sharing as a global capability across all operational entities. This will create a competitive advantage that denies opportunities to adversaries and is capable of responding to their actions with speed, precision and measured effect. The resultant global adaptive network of networks eventually will challenge, if not render obsolete, present views on bandwidth limitations, information assurance, reliability and connectivity.

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