Our military Wave 3 information capability is hostage to current Wave 2 bureaucratic processes… …we can’t get there without radical change!
Our DoD Culture does not Understand Technology Adoption
DoD’s attempt to modernize Joint command & control (C2) is once again being rethought following the shut down of the Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC) program. After four years, hundreds of meetings, and almost $300M, DoD has thought hard about how C2 can be improved using a services-based architecture, but in the end is leaving behind little more than a stack of documents, some experimental C2 capability, and confusion about what to do next. NECC was about building a Wave 3 services based C2 capability. This acquisition failure is one among many similar situations within the Department. These failures have little or nothing to do with associated senior leaders and well-intentioned acquisition professionals. Rather, it is the result of using an institutionalized Wave 2 “technology adoption” budgeting & acquisition processes while attempting to build Wave 3 capabilities. Continue reading