Therefore, quality, process, tools, and metrics are vital. Fourth, this conference is a step in our partnership with industry as we move to set in place integrated process and product teams to provide the earliest, technologically refreshed cost-effective solutions. Integral to that mastery is having in place the essential joint information infrastructure for the 21st century. Let us reflect on how war fighting has evolved. We have seen weapons move from autonomous to organized, to integrated data, to now, totally integrated systems.
Today is vastly different from yesterday.
Yesterday, any military pilot could board his aircraft with his mission and still start his engines without a computer disk. Not so today. Tomorrow's combat scenario will be unlike anything we have ever seen before. Information will be the weapon of choice, and information technology will govern all objective forces. Location, which once had critical value, no longer has value.