Dramatic increases in information system capabilities and substantial reductions in their costs compared to remote wireless communications is a powerful argument for a revised architecture concept for C2 information management. Reducing on-line, inter-platform data transmission requirements through cost-effective management of information is now possible. Application of the information management methodology to the storage, retrieval, and timely presentation of coherent tactical pictures will be important by-products of the effort to reduce the communications loading. Proper information management can eliminate the redundant use of information in data fusion and can often flag information non-availability when it occurs. The objectives are: first, to establish C2 information requirements that satisfy the C2 needs of the warfare mission areas; and second, to create and plan the implementation of phased architecture options to manage that information. The process for achieving the objectives is: to establish a concept for a set of time-phased architecture options that lead to the satisfaction of top-level warfare requirements for C2 information management; and to create a plan that will provide for the transition from the baseline architecture to the preferred architecture options.
