Information Superiority and Geographic Information Systems: Where Is the U.S. Army?

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Abstract : The Joint Staff published Joint Vision documents in 1996 and 2000 to provide the joint conceptual framework for the transformation effort. The United States Army embarked upon its own transformation towards its Objective Force in conjunction with the Joint Vision. Both initiatives depend upon realizing the potential of information age technologies and exploiting the information superiority to which those technologies contribute. Geospatial information provides the foundation for information superiority, which in turn supports the initiatives embodied in Army transformation and the tenets of Joint Vision. Geospatial information references locations on the surface of the earth incorporating the domains of land, sea, air and space and, as such, becomes the foundation upon which all other battlespace information is integrated. Geospatial information provides the basic framework for battlespace visualization, planning, decisions and actions. Without geospatial information, inform

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