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2000
Volume 1
Number 1
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Message from the Publisher
This inaugural issue of Perspectives considers a strategic opportunity
and challenge facing MITRE sponsors: How can we enable teams and organizations
to collaborate effectively? MITRE is designing collaboration services
for the warfighter, analyst, and policymaker that span geographic, temporal,
and organizational boundaries. MITRE’s vision for collaboration services
includes conferencing, information sharing and place-based interaction
to enable genuine process improvement.
Associated cost, schedule and performance benefits are achievable in
multiple domains including planning, operations, logistics, and training.
As the pages herein provide testimony for, however, the most important
challenge is organizational: creating a culture of collaboration through
strategy, policy, and incentives. The impact can be dramatic, exemplified
during 1998’s Desert Fox in Iraq and last year’s Kosovo operation,
when the MITRE-engineered Collaborative Contingency Targeting (CCT) system
(see The Edge special
issue on Collaboration, June 1998) enabled the Cruise Missile Support
Activity and theater commanders to reduce the timelines for distributed
targeting for Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles from days to hours. This issue
conveys our viewpoints on the marketplace, technology transition, security,
standards, and research.
For more information, please contact guest
editor Dr. Mark Maybury using the employee directory.
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