More than ever before, IO is being recognized as essential to military operations at all levels of warfare. IO, due to its importance and nature as an integrating strategy, has been accepted by the US Department of Defense and the US Navy as a critical capability that should be utilized to the fullest extent whenever appropriate.The Information Professional (IP) community, one of the US Navy’s newest, has a unique opportunity to become the Navy leaders and experts in the realm of Information Operations (IO). The IP qualification process is a good place to begin. This thesis offered recommendations for the incorporation of IO into the IP Intermediate Qualification (IQ) Process, particularly the PQS that all IP Officers are required to complete.
The intent was not to simply add more work to the process for the IP Officer. Instead, the results of the research are offered as an input to the ongoing community-wide effort to review and streamline the entire IP qualification system. The overall thesis and the research conducted to complete it followed a systems engineering approach to ensure that a viable and effective framework was used. It is hoped that the recommendations will be accepted by the IP community leadership and used to help the IP community as a whole continue to be the Navy leaders in the area of total Information Dominance.
The intent was not to simply add more work to the process for the IP Officer. Instead, the results of the research are offered as an input to the ongoing community-wide effort to review and streamline the entire IP qualification system. The overall thesis and the research conducted to complete it followed a systems engineering approach to ensure that a viable and effective framework was used. It is hoped that the recommendations will be accepted by the IP community leadership and used to help the IP community as a whole continue to be the Navy leaders in the area of total Information Dominance.
FULL SPECTRUM INFORMATION OPERATIONS AND
THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL OFFICER
INTERMEDIATE QUALIFICATION PROCESS: FILLING
THE GAP TO ENSURE THE CONTINUED LEADERSHIP
OF THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY
IN THE AREA OF INFORMATION DOMINANCE
by
Diego Velasco, Jr.
September 2005
1 comment:
This paper is further evidence of several things:
1. Even people who should know better confuse IT with IO.
2. The supervision and oversight of IT and the supervision and oversight of IO should not be resident in the organization (NNWC), because it confuses the issues and waters down both communities with distracted and confused leadership.
3. Sending officers to NPS to produce mindless dribble like this paper is a waste of taxpayer dollars and the officer's time. If you want officers to learn IO then send them to agencies that actually are forging the future in IO.
4. The reason the Navy IO efforts are lagging behind the other services is that the Navy continues to flail around in the dark.
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