The aredeveloped for a specific purpose. It is very important, from development policy reasons, to make a strict difference between common functions and activities-related functions . Common functions can, and ought to, be developed centrally in an armed forces organisation in order to obtain functionality which fulfils the requirements from the entire organisation. To ensure this it is necessary to have representatives from the different C3I-systems in the development team. It is disastrous to develop these functions behind locked doors.
Maximum openness is vital.
Activities-related applications should not be developed in that way. If You do so, the risk is high that You get applications which cannot be used in a proper way. Activities-related applications should be developed by people who know the activities to be supported. Those people, in the middle of the activities and with both feet in the mud are the people who can describe what is supposed to be supported so careful that the description can be subject to a proper activities-modelling and after that a data modelling. Those people need education and assistance from GIS-experts.