We must have the capability for assured, reliable identification, friend or foe. These decisions must be made quickly enough to do good and not so quickly as to do harm. This thorny issue has been around as long as there have been combatants. This brings us to electronic warfare. This includes capabilities for deceiving or disrupting, as well as destroying, the surveillance and command control systems that go along with an opponent's weapons.
Information warfare is another leading, emerging trend.
This is both offensive and defensive. We must have the ability to affect adversary information and their information systems, while leveraging and protecting our own information and information systems. Another important emerging trend is for real-time logistics control. This is an information window into the innermost workings of the entire logistics support structure. It includes both total asset visibility across service and agency lines and in-transit visibility throughout all forms of transportation.