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  Pre-Conflict Management Tools: Winning the Peace

  Aaron B. Frank

  This paper addresses the Pre-Conflict Management Tools (PCMT) Program which was developed to transform how intelligence, policy, and operational decisionmakers interact when confronting highly complex strategic problems. The first half of this paper provides readers a context for why the PCMT program is important for incorportating social science models into the RCC and interagency planning processes. The second half provides an overview of the structure, methods, and technologies of PCMT.

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  Battle-Wise: Gaining Advantage in Networked Warfare

  David C. Gompert, Irving Lachow, and Justin Perkins

  This paper summarizes a forthcoming National Defense University book suggesting why and how the U.S. and allied forces should improve the cognitive faculties of military decisionmakers to attain new operational and strategic advantages or to avoid the loss of advantages they now enjoy.

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  Learning from Darfur: Building a Net-Capable African Force to Stop Mass Killing

  David C. Gompert, Courtney Richardson, Clifford H. Bernath, and Richard L. Kugler

  The purpose of this report is to explore one particularly promising model of combat force to intervene in Africa to stop mass killings and other atrocities. Its conclusion is that networking concepts and technologies that were effective in Afghanistan and Iraq can be used by Africans with intensive external help to field a capability for forcible humanitarian intervention.

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  Alternative Fleet Architecture Design

  Stuart E. Johnson and Arthur K. Cebrowski

  This report calls into question the viability of the longstanding logic of naval force building. It provides a description of the opportunities that rapid advances in technology and organizational effectiveness offer the U.S. Navy as it looks to the demanding future. Most important, it provides an alternative fleet architecture design that incorporates the three broad elements of the DoD’s transformation strategy.

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  Strengthening the Army R&D Program

  John W. Lyons, Joseph N. Mait, and Dennis R. Schmidt

  These two papers consider models for managing the Army laboratories, including the mode of operations and the means by which the Army can be assured that its technical enterprise is state of the art. Taken together these papers present opportunities to move the Army S&T program ahead without disrupting the current operations of the laboratories.

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  Making IT Happen: Transforming Military Information Technology

  Joseph N. Mait

  This report is a primer for commercial providers to gain some understanding of the military’s thinking about military information technology and some of the programs it foresees for the future. The intent is to introduce those not presently involved in the development of military information technology to some of the things and programs being developed by the DoD for deployment in the next five to ten years.

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  A Primer on the Detection of Nuclear and Radiological Weapons

  Gary W. Phillips, David J. Nagel, and Timothy Coffey

  This study upon which this report is based was undertaken because of the large and growing importance of detection technologies for nuclear or radiological weapons of mass destruction (NRWMD). While this report will focus on detection of NRWMD, the NRWMD problem does not have a purely technical solution and th reasons for this will be become clear in this report.

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  The Bug Stops Here: Force Protection and Emerging Infectious Diseases

  Donald F. Thompson, Joel L. Swerdlow, and Cheryl Loeb

  The purpose of this paper is to review important lessons that have been learned in the past, and to revisit the older but proven principles of force protection that are in danger of being forgotten in today’s technology-focused military environment. It provides a series of case studies that analyze health threats to each regional combatant command and presents both tactical and strategic recommendations that will better prepare the entire DoD for future outbreaks.

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  Shedding Light on the Battlefield: Tactical Applications of Photonic Technology

  Joseph N. Mait, Michael W. Haney, Keith W. Goossen, and Mark P. Christensen

  This paper addresses the growing availiability and dependence on tactical sensor technology on bandwidth for the battlfield and recommends the use of light, or photons, to transmit information. It highlights the advantages of photonics in three applications and discusses the economical and technological advantages for increasing the use of photonics for the U.S. government and military.