It doesn't make sense for the government to tell industry how to do their job. If they're the experts, we shouldn't. If we're the experts, we should be doing it ourselves. Obviously, an ashore infrastructure is essential, no one argues with that. Competitive advantages accrue from the timeliness and availability of information.
Industry needs information so they can respond to a market force more quickly than a competitor can.
That's very similar to what we do in the military. My job is to make sure that my boss can make decisions based on information that's better and more readily available than my adversary's. Because we knew more than he did about what was going on in the battle field. We had a significant information advantage, or in the terms of Joint Vision 2010, we achieved information dominance. Vetter likes to tell the story about talking to a particular industry giant who provides services to the government costing millions.