Robin,
Sorry I missed this discussion, but here is my answer.
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In a true sense you're right about the definition of net-centric.
Truth, however, is in the eyes of your target audience. In the DoD,
Homeland Security and Intelligence Community world, net-centric
warfare and net-centric operations are not simply about the act of
being on-line. It's about applying the information you can glean from
being on-line and applying that information to a specific situation.
The Net-Centric Environment is a framework for full human and
technical connectivity and interoperability that allows all DOD users
and mission partners to share the information they need, when they
need it, in a form they can understand and act on with confidence, and
protects information from those who should not have it.
http://www.dtic.mil/futurejointwarfare/concepts/netcentric_jfc.pdf
Network Centric Operations (NCO) involves the development and
employment of mission capability packages that are the embodiment of
the tenets of Network Centric Warfare (NCW) in operations across the
full mission spectrum. These tenets state that a robustly networked
force improves information sharing and collaboration, which enhances
the quality of information, the quality of awareness, and improves
shared situational awareness. This results in enhanced collaboration
and enables self-synchronization improving sustainability and
increasing the speed of command, which ultimately result in
dramatically increased mission effectiveness. …The tenets of NCW
address these means and postulate how they can increase mission
effectiveness.
http://www.mors.org/meetings/oa_nco/oa_definition.htm
Our mission is to facilitate global realization of the benefit
inherent in Network Centric Operations. To that end, we seek to
enable continuously increasing levels of interoperability across the
spectrum of joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational
industrial and commercial operations. We will execute this mission in
good faith as a global organization with membership open to all
enterprises in quest of applying the vast potential of network centric
technology to the operational challenges faced by our nations and
their citizens.
https://www.ncoic.org/about/mission_vision/
So while being connected is a requirement for net-centricity, that in
itself is not sufficient to realize the possible benefits of net-
centric operations. In some ways, our approach is to take internet
connectivity as a given. Our focus is to ascertain and solve the
barriers associated with realizing the results of internet
connectivity.
On Jul 2, 12:15 pm, Stuart Charlton <stuartcharl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I was to hear "Network-Centricity", I certainly would lean in the
> former definition -- though I think the latest term is "Net-Centric
> Operations" instead of warfare. There is quite a bit of research,
> background, and discussion on the concept, and it's a powerful one.
> "Power to the Edge" was a follow-on concept by the same authors of the
> NCW book, by the way, and I think starts to draw connections to cloud
> computing and software as a service.
>
> One of the ways to relate cloud computing and NCW is to think of the
> services that are required to support NCW, and this is where cloud
> computing comes in. It has a different user experience,
> architecture, and acquisition model than traditional technology systems.
>
> A great video, by Paul Strassmann, a former DoD CIO, on "Google as a
> Model for the Systems Architecture of the Future" is here:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6682253938984655269
>
> Referring to cloud computing as "internet-centric" without the
> surrounding organizational context tells me nothing. It could mean
> "you should have a web site", which is very 90's. It could mean "all
> your computers should be on the Internet", which is both absurd and
> wrong anyway. It could mean "you should have no computers on site,
> just dumb terminals", which is also absurd, misses the notion of
> "private clouds", and is arguably a caricature of the "cloud computing
> is the new outsourcing" argument.
>
> Cheers
> Stu
>
> On 2-Jul-08, at 7:31 AM,RobinLobb wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've recently seen a new use of the term "net-centric". It's
> > commonly understood to mean network-centric and specifically, it
> > means focusing applied and theoritical concepts of network
> > organization to an area of consideration.
>
> > For instance, in the case of the military they have something called
> > net-centric warfare which means that they apply innovative network
> > organizational principles to their strategy, tactics, culture, and
> > organizational architecture. It is about enabling better
> > exploitation of information and generally ICTs. It is meant to
> > achieve a comprehensive and optimally coordinated utilization of a
> > nation's, corporation's or coalition's formal and informal assets to
> > achieve at least temporarily shared objectives.
>
> > In the case of cloud computing it seems to refer to Internet-
> > centric. If it is about the internet then it makes sense. Though
> > there is some overlap with the conventional usage of the term. I
> > don't know this it is particularly problematic. It is certainly
> > confusing to those of us using the other usage of the term. I am
> > however interested in confirming the distinct deifnition that I am
> > thinking cloud computing is now assigning this term. Truth is, cloud
> > computing has simply revealed this alternate usage to me and it may
> > be the case that it's been used alternately for a very long time.
> > But I do need to know if it is simply a new word jumble blending two
> > terms or something more meaningful. Please help.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> >Robin- Hide quoted text -
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