Information Command and Control

While information has always been the substance of which command and control is made, it has become the thumbscrew of current military, business, and political strategy and operations. From the military perspective, information has become the centerpiece of net-centric warfare and as such has, in essence, become the most recent, fifth, military domain. (1) For the four older, previous military domains, we have developed methods and means to wage war and to command and control what we call the kinetic space. But so far we have developed little to no methods or means of providing the decision-maker a capability to command and control the new domain of warfare, the information space. This paper attempts to raise the level of awareness regarding the need for information command and control (IC2) by addressing some critical challenges surrounding IC2 and offering some insight to fledgling research that attempts to begin meeting these challenges. It is worthy to note from the start that the purpose of this paper is not to offer the solution, but rather to raise the level of awareness and to suggest some approaches to the need described