Chances are these stove-piped MCPs will represent incremental improvements, but fail to take full advantage of the opportunities. Third, coevolution is a process of discovery and testing. The answer will not be known in advance. Fourth, the heart of the coevolution process is experimentation, not demonstrations nor exercises, although increase in real dollars and a continuing, if not increasing, tension between modernization and readiness, the systemic suboptimality inherent in current practices needs to be addressed. Education and Training Change is difficult.
Big changes are more difficult.
The adoption of NCW will involve significant, if not fundamental changes in how DoD task organizes duties and responsibilities of individuals. Individuals will need to adopt new attitudes, accept more responsibility, learn new skills, master new approaches, and operate new systems all in a faster-paced environment. The future DoD is likely to have fewer, but more educated and highly trained individuals. A hard look at our whole approach to education and training is required. A major consideration is that we are moving away from a situation in which we knew how we wanted a particular task performed, and then designed tools and processes to teach known solutions.