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Collection and analysis of foreign intelligence is, and will continue to be, a vital component of U.S. national security strategy. However, there is significant debate regarding whether our existing intelligence apparatus can sufficiently transform itself to meet the demands of the 21st century. The Department of Defense (DoD) has a vested interest in this debate - both as a customer and as a major supplier - because the goals of the National Military Strategy cannot be achieved in the absence of a robust foreign intelligence apparatus. This task force first examined the anticipated 2lst century threat environment, focusing on how the threats and adversaries are changing in the post-Cold War era. We then worked to characterize future intelligence customers' needs, again emphasizing how the dynamic global security environment is altering both needs and expectations. Finally, we formulated a top-level opinion of the strategic posture of today's Intelligence Community (IC) and its ability to meet the needs of its primary DoD customers - with particular emphasis on the warfighter. Our recommendations are intended to better position the IC to meet the evolving demands of its diverse customer base.
VOL 2 provides supporting materials to VOL 1 (DSB 98 Summer Study Task Force on Joint Operations Superiority in the 21st Century major findings and recommendations).
As the nation moves toward the 21st century, the United States faces a dynamic international environment that will impose new complexities in military operations. Today's potential adversaries are more adaptive and have increasing access to asymmetric capabilities to offset U.S. military capabilities. The Department of Defense is embarking on a process of transforming the military to stay ahead of future security challenges. Although the United States currently enjoys military superiority, retaining this advantage will require a balance between maintaining relevant legacy forces, facilities, and systems and developing new and different capabilities. The 1999 Summer Study Task Force was asked to examine 21st century defense technology strategies to meet the national security challenges of the next two decades. Specifically, the Terms of Reference asked the task force to review and consider the broad spectrum of topics addressed in the 1990 DSB summer study; address 21st century intelligence needs and adversaries; expand and build on the recommendations for technologies, operational capabilities, and force characteristics developed in the 1998 DSB summer study; examine the need for and use of all forms of information to achieve full spectrum battlespace dominance; and examine defense technology strategy, management, and acquisition. The task force found that developing a full spectrum joint rapid response operations capability can be an effective way to focus the activities of the DoD. Thus, the task force focused on capabilities, technologies, and organizational changes associated with developing joint and combined rapid response capabilities that can support a range of contingency operations. This study addresses three enablers essential for developing this capability: Strategic Agility, Information for Decision Superiority, and Force Protection. This report consists of two volumes. Volume I presents the major findings, and Volume II provides supporting material7.
The final report of the 1999 Defense Science Board Summer Study Task Force on 21st Century Defense Technology Strategies, Volume I, is attached. This report consists of two volumes. Volume I presents the major findings and recommendations and Volume II, which is planned to be finalized in December, provides the supporting materials. As the nation moves toward the 21st century, the United States faces a dynamic international environment that will impose new complexities in military operations. The Department of Defense is embarking on a process of transforming the military to stay ahead of future security challenges. Although the United States currently enjoys military superiority, retaining this advantage will require a balance between maintaining relevant legacy forces, facilities, and systems and developing new and different capabilities. This transformation must be accomplished while today's high operational tempo continues. The Department of Defense needs a way to focus the transformation process. Our task force found that developing a full spectrum - air, land, space and sea - joint- rapid response operations capability can be an effective way to focus the activities of the Department. Thus, our task force focused on capabilities, technologies, and organizational changes associated with developing joint and combined rapid response capabilities that can support a range of contingency operations - a major priority for the Department today.
Globalization-the integration of the political, economic and cultural activities of geographically and/or nationally separated peoples-is not a discernible event or challenge, is not new, but it is accelerating. More importantly, globalization is largely irresistible. Thus, globalization is not a policy option, but a fact to which policymakers must adapt. Globalization has accelerated as a result of many positive factors, the most notable of which include: the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War; the spread of capitalism and free trade; more rapid and global capital flows and more liberal financial markets; the liberalization of communications; international academic and scientific collaboration; and faster and more efficient forms of transportation. At the core of accelerated global integration-at once its principal cause and consequence-is the information revolution, which is knocking down once-formidable barriers of physical distance, blurring national boundaries and creating cross-border communities of all types.