Publication

NECWORKS – Issue 2

Architectures of NEC and NCW

NECWORKS brings together insight and experience from military, academic, industry and consulting authors from around the world.

In this issue, the authors consider the founding structures of NEC and NCW: typically the technology, but also some of the assumptions made about about the way the networks are procured, operated and used. The various authors look at current approaches in defence and compare experiences in commercial organisations; they also consider the pace of technological change and how this can be realistically harnessed in a defence context.

Contents

• Operations with NEC – General Sir Mike Jackson
• Evolution and design in human systems – Professor Karen Carr, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
• Applying an architectural approach to enable NEC across the Medium Weight Capability – David Pile and Giles Beattie, PA Consulting Group
• Agile acquisition - balancing procurement risk and procurement speed – Bill Hodson, Tenet Technology Ltd
• Deploying new core networking capability: lessons from the telecommunicatoins industry – Mark Neild and Andy Brown, PA Consulting Group
• Interview with Commodore Phil Jones
• Exploring the measurement of successful information exploitation – Cameron Japp, PA Consulting Group
• Network-centric operations: getting 'IT' right – Kevin J Cogan and Dr Jeffrey L Groh, US Army War College
• Leadership in the NEC environment: who will make it work? – Brigadier Mike Lithgow, UK MOD (Retired)
• Riding the wave of technological change – Paul Vingoe and Neil Ellett, PA Consulting Group