This includes means of access and timelines, and it is complicated by the rapid changes occurring in the commercial marketplace. Experiences in Bosnia have pointed out the need to provide junior officers with more LAN training, and the general notes that this training already has been increased. This effort is complicated by the vast number of LANs already in existence, so the corps' computer science school has increased its emphasis on LANs. Future signal leaders also must be information designers. This involves being able to present information in multitudes of ways tailored to user needs.
Current systems tend to rely on fixed graphics and standard presentations, such as pie charts.
In the future, the information officer must be able to redesign rapidly, pull from a data base and provide different formats to the user. The general characterizes Army digitization as a journey rather than as a goal. A significant amount of maturity will be reached in the next four to five years, but the dynamic information world always will stay ahead of the Army. Technology will be driving constant Army adaptation efforts. Early in the next century, the Army should have some very significant digital war fighting capabilities out in units, with a corps or more possessing high levels of digital capability by the year 2010.