In other words, leverage shared battlespace awareness to allocate, assign, and employ assets and then modify these allocations, assignments, and employments as awareness of the situation changes. Inherent in this approach is the realization that the concept of dynamic fitness , which places a premium on flexibility and adaptability vice solely focusing on optimization, must play a key role in both the design and employment of forces. Actors include traditional and nontraditional forces.
Decision makers are to be found at all levels of the organization.
Battlespace entities will be connected in some fashion, but how these need to be connected is not predetermined. Moreover, we do not want to imply a universal connectivity where every node is directly connected to every other node, or that all nodes are provided with the same level of information services. Determining the nature of this enabling infostructure and the best way to acquire it present significant challenges. There has been a tendency, in the effort to explain NCW, for its proponents to speak in conceptual terms, and others to hear in literal terms. NCW can only be effectively reduced to simple vu-graphs if everyone understands that the links portrayed are only notional, and that in reality it is the specifics that count which links exist, what information is passed, and what is done with the information.