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The Director of the U.S. Department
of Defense, Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)
and the Director General of the Canadian Department
of National Defence, Defence Research & Development
Canada - Valcartier (DRDC-V), welcome you to the 7th
International Command and Control Research and Technology
Symposium.
The theme for this year's symposium
is Enabling Synchronized Operations. Complex
coalition operations involve not only military-to-military
interoperability, but also the ability of government
agencies as well as a host of non-government and private
voluntary organizations to work together effectively
to synchronize a diverse set of plans and actions.
By bringing together experts from
both the operational and technical communities of several
countries, this symposium seeks to explore the nature
of future coalition operations and new approaches to
exercising command and control within the context of
Information Age challenges and with the help of Information
Age technologies. This symposium offers an opportunity
to push the envelope in planning for the mission capabilities
needed to deal with emerging conflicts in an uncertain
environment.
The Canadian operational and R&D perspectives
will be brought to you by our keynote speakers, Major
General Hellier, Deputy Chief of Land Staff Ottawa,
and Dr. John Leggat, Assistant Deputy Minister (S&T)
and CEO of Defence R&D Canada, respectively.
For the first time, the 2002 ICCRTS
spans 5 days. There will be invited plenary speakers
and technical papers from several countries. Papers
were grouped into eight tracks with a minimum number
of parallel sessions. Together, the keynote and plenary
sessions, and the 125 papers, representing military,
governmental, academic and industrial communities, will
address the nature of emerging challenges and their
impact on critical command and control issues, including
but not limited to: new command concepts, architectures,
organizations, doctrine, system capabilities, and processes.
The 7th ICCRTS venue is of historical
interest. Québec City, founded in 1608, served as a
capital city under the French and British regimes.
The proceedings will be made available
on CDROM and at the CCRP Website: www.dodccrp.org.
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