This capability is not yet available in today's commercial collaborative tools. To take advantage of the global integrated information data base of tomorrow, we must strive now to become more interoperable. We cannot continue to give lip service to this critical issue. Now is the time for action and total commitment. Our goal is to learn to fight as one virtual force.
Interoperability is the critical enabler, and it has become more and more elusive with time.
When the Army Air Corps existed, I do not recall interoperability being as difficult as it is today with each service determined to do their own thing. Before the Air Force was broken out as a separate service, there were no interoperability problems between the Army Air Corps and the Army Ground Forces. As a matter of fact, we did not begin to see the interoperability problems between the Army and Air Force until the advent of the Vietnam War. The problem was built between the Korean War and the beginning of the Vietnam War. Being an old-timer as I am, I just had to toss that comment into the hopper because that's the way I have seen things during my time.