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− Section 11 provides a detailed overview of ongoing developments and initiatives relating to NCW within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States Joint Forces Command. − Appendix H provides the text of the U.S. Joint Forces Command report to Congress about activities related to NCW and Joint Experimentation. 3. A discussion of how the concept of NCW is related to the strategy of transformation as outlined in the document entitled Joint Vision 2020, along with the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing that concept. − Section 2 describes the relationship between NCW and DoD Transformation, including the relationship between NCW and Joint Vision 2020. − Section 3.4 discusses how Information Superiority and NCW transform the practice of nine fundamental principles of war. − Section 10.4.7 describes how science and technology success is dependent upon co-evolution of technology, doctrine, and organization. − Section 9.2.2 describes GIG Architecture Development 4. A discussion of how the Department is implementing the concepts of NCW as it relates to information superiority and decision superiority articulated in Joint Vision 2020. − Section 5 describes the Prerequisites that lead to implementation of NCW. − Section 7 describes the DoD NCW Implementation Strategy. − Section 6 describes the things that are enablers of NCW. − Section 9.2 describes Policy and Governance that guide the CINCs, Services, and Agency in development of the Global Information Grid. 5. An identification and description of the current and planned activities of each of the Armed Forces relating to NCW. − Section 3.3.1 contains examples of Service NCW Concepts that are developing NCW. − Section 4 provides an Overview of Service Visions and Concepts and summarizes the individual Service concepts that are stated in detail in Appendix A. − Section 8.2 provides a detailed discussion of experimentation conducted by the Services that provides evidence of the value of NCW.
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