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U.S. Spending on Military Technology through 2010
Loren B. Thompson. Presentation to the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit, 05 December 2007. Posted on the Lexington Institute website.

Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn
Sandra I. Erwin. National Defense, November 2007.

Decision Support for Network-Centric Command and Control
The Command and Control Research Program Journal, Fall 2007.

Joint Radio: Vision of a Transformed Force Slipping Away
Loren B. Thompson. Lexington Institute, 14 August 2007.

Old Dogs and New Tricks: Setting the Tone for Adaptability
Maj. Donald E. Vandergriff and Col. George Reed. Army Magazine, August 2007. Posted on the Defense and the National Interest website (.pdf file).

Military Officer Attitudes Toward UAV Adoption: Exploring Institutional Impediments to Innovation
James R. Fitzsimonds and Thomas G. Mahnken. Joint Force Quarterly, 3rd Quarter 2007 (.pdf file).

Trials and Tribulations Persist in Joint Tactical Radio
Sandra I. Erwin. National Defense, May 2007.

Getting to a 21st Century Supply Chain
Lexington Institute, April 2007 (.pdf file).

Directing Defense Intelligence
Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples. Signal Magazine, April 2007.

Technological Implications of the 2006 QDR
Robert Martinage. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 21 February 2007 (.pdf file).

Defense Transformation: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress
Ronald O'Rourke. Congressional Research Service, updated 09 November 2006 (.pdf file).

Transforming Military Training: Using the Lessons of the Past to Build the Army of the Future
Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus. The Brookings Institution, 14 September 2006 (.pdf file).

Military Transformation: Ends, Ways, and Means
Jack D. Kem. Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2006.

Implementing the Transformation Vision
Walter P. Fairbanks. Joint Force Quarterly, July 2006 (.pdf file).

Selected Papers from the 2006 Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, sponsored by U.S. DOD Command and Control Research Program, San Diego, 20-22 June 2006. (All .pdf files).

U.S. 'Prompt Global Strike' Capability: a New Destabilising Sub-State Deterrent in the Making?
Ian Davis and Robin Dodd. British American Security Information Council, June 2006 (.pdf file).

The Right Number
Otto Kreisher. Navy League of the United States, July 2006.

U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress
Andrew Feickert. Congressional Research Service, 17 April 2006 (.pdf file).

Transformation: A Program Assessment - Vol II: Supporting Reports
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, April 2006 (.pdf file).

Bringing Defense into the Information Economy
David C. Gompert and Paul Bracken. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, March 2006 (.pdf file).

Unmanned Aircraft Systems: New DOD Programs Can Learn From Past Efforts to Craft Better and Less Risky Acquisition Strategies
Government Accountability Office, March 2006.

Transforming the U.S. Global Defense Posture
Ryan Henry. Naval War College Review, Spring 2006. Posted on the Find Articles website.

A Balanced Force Structure to Achieve a Liberal World Order
Mackubin Thomas Owens. Foreign Policy Research Institute, Spring 2006 (.pdf file).

Defense Transformation: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress
Ronald O'Rourke. Congressional Research Service, 17 February 2006 (.pdf file).

Reposturing the Force: U.S. Overseas Presence in the Twenty-First Century
Carnes Lord, ed. Newport Paper #26, Naval War College, February 2006 (.pdf file).

Six Decades of Guided Munitions
Barry D. Watts. Presented at "Precision Requirements - New Policies Creating Innovative Opportunities," Precision Strike Association, Crystal City, VA, 25 January 2006 (.pdf file).

Restructuring Special Operations Forces for Emerging Threats
David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb. Strategic Forum, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, January 2006 (.pdf file).

12th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
Command and Control Research Program, 2006.

Sense and Respond Logistics: Integrating Prediction, Responsiveness, and Control Capabilities
Robert S. Tripp et al. RAND, 2006 (.pdf file).

Testing of Defense Systems in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment
Oversight Committee for the Workshop on Testing for Dynamic Acquisition of Defense Systems, National Research Council, 2006.

Joint Paths to the Future Force: A Report on Unified Quest 2004
David E. Johnson et al. RAND, 2006 (.pdf file).

DoD Systems Modernization: Uncertain Joint Use and Marginal Expected Value of Military Asset Deployment System Warrant Reassessment of Planned Investment
GAO Report to the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, December 2005 (.pdf file).

Defense Acquisitions: Joint Forces Command's Limited Acquisition Authority
GAO Report to House and Senate Committees on Armed Services, 22 November 2005 (.pdf file).

The QDR & Long-Range Surveillance and Strike
Michael G. Vickers. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 10 November 2005 (.pdf file).

Testing Their Mettle
Katherine McIntire Peters. Government Executive Magazine, 01 November 2005.

Dealing with Uncertainty
Thomas X. Hammes. Marine Corps Gazette, November 2005. Posted on the Small Wars Journal website (.pdf file).

Military-Transformation Agency At Crossroads After Cebrowski
Roxana Tiron. The Hill, 15 September 2005.

Pentagon Transformation Office: 'Much Remains to Be Done'
Jason Sherman. Inside Defense, 02 September 2005.

Transforming the Rewards for Military Service
Cindy Williams. MIT Security Studies Program, September 2005 (.pdf file).

Making IT Happen: Transforming Military Information Technology
Joseph N. Mait, ed. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, September 2005 (.pdf file).

Transforming Defense
Christopher J. Lamb. National Defense University Press, September 2005 (.pdf file).

Defense Science Board Task Force on Mobility
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, September 2005 (.pdf file).

Implementing Logistics Transformation: A New Model for the Military Supply Chain
Daniel Goure. Lexington Institute, September 2005.

Transforming Defense
Christopher Lamb, Institute for National Strategic Studies, September 2005.

With 2005 Transformation Road Maps Scrapped OFT Focuses on QDR
Sebastian Sprenger. Inside the Pentagon, 04 August 2005. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation website (.doc file).

Capstone Concept for Joint Operations
Defense Technical Information Center, August 2005 (.pdf file).

Logistics Transformation: Next Steps to Interoperability and Alignment
Christine Brim. Lexington Institute, July 2005 (.pdf file).

Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: New Proposals for Defense Reform
Clark A. Murdock and Richard W. Weitz. Joint Force Quarterly, 27 June 2005 (.pdf file).

Actions Needed to Enhance DOD's Program to Transform Joint Training
Government Acountability Office, June 2005 (.pdf file).

Wireless Sensor Systems and Networks: Technologies, Applications, Implications and Impacts
David J. Nagel. CSIS, 19 May 2005.

Information Technology Takes Firm Hold of Military's Reins
Robert K. Ackerman. Signal Magazine, May 2005.

US European Command and Transformation
Charles F. Wald. Joint Force Quarterly, 15 April 2005 (.pdf file).

Long-Range Strike: Imperatives, Urgency and Options
Barry D. Watts. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, April 2005 (.pdf file).

Joint Capabilities and System-of-Systems Solutions
Mary Maureen Brown and Rob Flowe. Defense Acquisition University, April 2005 (.pdf file).Issues Associated with the Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion
Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Congressional Budget Office, 28 February 2005 (.pdf file).

050222 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Programs: Issues for Congress
Richard A. Best, Jr. CRS Report, 22 February 2005. Posted on the Federation of American Scientists website (.pdf file).

The Future of the Guard and Reserve: Roles, Missions and Force Structure
Frank G. Hoffman. Foreign Policy Research Institute, 08 February 2005.

Transforming Reserve Forces
Albert C. Zapanta. Joint Force Quarterly, 02 February 2005 (.pdf file).

Emerging Threats to National Security
Gregory F. Treverton. Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, 02 February 2005. Posted on the RAND website (.pdf file).

Transforming the Reserve Component
Hans Binnendijk et. al. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, February 2005 (.pdf file).

DSB To Examine Pentagon Transformation To Date
Amy Butler. Defense Daily, 21 January 2005. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site.

Transforming Joint Warfighting Capabilities
Scott E. Jasper. Joint Force Quarterly, 11 January 2005 (.pdf file).

The Origins of Effects-based Operations
Phillip S. Meilinger. Joint Force Quarterly, 11 January 2005 (.pdf file).

Systems Integration and the New American Way of War
Paul Bracken. Joint Force Quarterly, 11 January 2005 (.pdf file).

Centralized Control/ Decentralized Execution in the Era of Forward Reach
Mark G. Davis. Joint Force Quarterly, 11 January 2005 (.pdf file).

050101 Logistics Transformation - Restarting a Stalled Process
Lieutenant Colonel Victor Maccagnan, Jr. Strategic Studies Institute, January 2005 (.pdf file).

Avoiding Surprise in an Era of Global Technology Advances (2005)
National Academies Press, 2005.

Toward Incentives for Military Transformation: A Review of Economic Models of Compensation
Bogdan Savych. RAND, 2005.

Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research (2005)
National Academies Press, 2005.

Reexamining Military Acquisition Reform: Are We There Yet?
Christopher H. Hanks, et. al. RAND, 2005 (.pdf file).

Battlefield-Driven Innovation: Acquisition Lessons from Recent Experiences
Jon J. Rosenwasser. CSIS, October 2004.

Pentagon Takes Another Shot at Enforcing Joint Thinking
Sandra I. Erwin. National Defense Magazine, August 2004.

Unit Focused Stabilization: Prospective and Issues
William Patrick Towell. Testimony Before the House Armed Services Committee, 14 July 2004 Posted on the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (.pdf file).

Pentagon Takes Major Step Toward Battlespace System Harmonization: Family of Operational Pictures is a Key Element of Precision Engagement
Richard C. Barnard. Sea Power, July 2004.

Pentagon Kicks Off Effort To Re-Examine The Basic Principles Of War
Keith Costa. Inside The Pentagon, 1 July 2004. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site.

Internet in the Sky
Beth Dickey. Government Executive, 01 July 2004.

Sticker Shock Felt As New Radios Are Acquired
Sandra I. Erwin. National Defense Magazine, July 2004.

America's Welcome Military Rethink
Michael E. O'Hanlon. Financial Times, 24 June 2004. Posted on the Brookings Institution website.

Cebrowski: More Complexity Essential To Defense
Richard Mullen. Defense Today, 15 June 2004. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site.

Building Capability from the Technical Revolution that has Happened
John P. White and John Deutch. Strategic Studies Institute, June 2004 (.pdf file).

Looking to the Future: What Does Transformation Mean for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy?
Beth Asch. Rand, June 2004 (.pdf file).

Looking to the Future What Does Transformation Mean for Military Manpower and Personnel Policy?
Beth Asch and James R. Hosek. RAND, June 2004 (.pdf file).

Recent Campaigns Benefited from Improved Communications and Technology, but Barriers to Continued Progress Remain
GAO, June 2004 (.pdf file).

Transformation, Take 2
John A. Tirpak. Air Force Magazine, June 2004 (.pdf file).

Building Capability from the Technical Revolution that has Happened
John White and John Deutch. Strategic Studies Institute, June 2004.

Pentagon Will Spend $15B to Lower Bandwith Cost
Roxana Tiron. National Defense Magazine, June 2004.

At The Pentagon, Barnett's Quirky Powerpoint Carries Big Punch
Greg Jaffe. Wall Street Journal, 11 May 2004. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site.

Do Big U.S. Programs Stifle Innovation?
Vago Muradian. Defense News, 10 May 2004. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site.

Transformation Trends
Office of Force Transformation, 04 May 2004 (pdf file).

Billions Continue to Be Invested with Inadequate Management Oversight and Accountability
GAO, May 2004 (.pdf file).

The Exiegencies of Global, Integrated Warfare: The Evolving Role of the CJCS and his Dedicated Staff
Michael S. Bell. Strategic Studies Institute, May 2004 (.pdf file).

Cebrowski: Don't 'Feel Bad' At Small Quantities of F/A-22, DD(X), LPD-17
Amy Butler and John Robinson. Defense Daily, 19 April 2004. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site.

Outsourcing the War
Peter W. Singer. Brookings Institution, 16 April 2004.

Future Ops Forcing Disruptive Changes, Marine General Says
John R. Guardiano. Defense Daily, 12 April 2004. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site.

War Realities Call for New Approach to Logistics
Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr. National Defense Magazine, April 2004.

Interoperability and Systems Integration Conference
Defense Technical Inforamtion Center, 22 March 2004.

Move Toward Real, Not Just Rhetorical, Transformation
Steven Nider. The Hill, 04 March 2004. Posted on the New Democrats online website.

The Rise of the Shadow Warriors
Jennifer D. Kibbe. Foreign Affairs, March-April 2004. Posted on the Global Policy Forum website.

Not Many Jobs Take a Whole Army: Special Operations Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs
Malcolm Brailey. Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore, March 2004 (.pdf file).

Time-Critical Targeting Predictive versus Reactionary Methods: An Analysis for the Future
Gregory S. Marzolf. School of Advanced Airpower Studies, March 2004 (.pdf file).

Force-Application Planning A Systems-and-Effects-Based Approach
Jay M. Kreighbaum, School of Advanced Airpower Studies, March 2004 (.pdf file).

Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era
Clark A. Murdock, et. al. CSIS, March 2004 (.pdf file).

Thinking About the Imperatives of Defense Transformation
Paul Wolfowitz. Posted on the Heritage Foundation web site, April 2004.

Military Looks for Joint Architecture
Frank Tiboni. Federal Computer Week, 13 February 2004.

Joint Functional Concepts
Department of Defense, 12 February 2004. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center website (.pdf file).

Major Combat Operations:  Joint Operating Concept
Department of Defense, 06 February 2004. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center website (.doc file).

Homeland Security Joint Operating Concept
Department of Defense, February 2004. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center website (.doc file).

Strategic Deterrence Joint Operating Concept
Department of Defense, February 2004. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center website (.doc file).

Future Strategic Strike Forces
Defense Science Board, February 2004 (.pdf file).

Effects-Based Operations in Afghanistan
Robert B. Herndon, et al. Field Artillery, January-February 2004 (.pdf file).

Stability Operations:  Joint Operating Concept
Department of Defense, 30 January 2004. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center website (.doc file).

Transformation Trends
Department of Defense. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site (.pdf file).

Attracting the Best: How the Military Competes for Information Technology Personnel
James R. Hosek, et al. Rand, 2004 (.pdf file).

OIF Lessons Highlight Comms Compatibility
Scott R. Gourley. Military Information Technology, 2004.

Information Sharing Among Military Headquarters : the Effects on Decisionmaking
RAND, 2004 (.pdf file).

Attracting the Best : How the Military Competes for Information Technology Personnel
RAND, 2004 (.pdf file).

From Factory to Foxhole: The Transformation of Army Logistics
Daniel Goure and Kenneth A. Steadman. Lexington Institute, 2004 (.pdf file).

Cebrowski Sketches the Face of Transformation
Paul Stone. American Forces Press Service, 29 December 2003. Posted on the DefenseLink website.

Conflict and Ambiguity Implementing Evolutionary Acquisition
Richard K. Sylvester and Joseph A. Ferrara. Acquisition Review Quarterly, Winter 2003.

The New Officer Corps: '360-Degree Evaluations' (Part 3 of 3)
Donald E. Vandergriff. Military.com, 10 December 2003.

National Security Strategy and Policy Security Planning and Military Transformation After Iraqi Freedom
Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski. 34th IFPA-Flether Conference, Washington, DC, 02-03 December 2003.

Defense Transformation Leader Suggests Improvements
Amy Svitak. Congress Daily, 03 December 2003. Posted on the Government Executive website.

Tools for Transforming the Officer Corps (Part 2 of 3)
Donald E. Vandergriff. Military.com, 25 November 2003.

Global Expeditionary Warfare
Michael P. Noona. Foreign Policy Research Institute, 21 November 2003.

Post-Conflict and Culture:  Changing America's Military for 21st Century Missions
James Jay Carafano. Heritage Lecture #810, 20 November 2003.

War Games:  Computer games enter the debates about the U.S military response to Osama and Saddam
Henry Jenkins. Technology Review, 7 November 2003.

Transforming the U.S. Army Officer Corps (First of Two Parts)
Donald E. Vandergriff. Military.com, 06 November 2003.

Transformation:  Are the Goals Off Target? Military not adequately equipped for nation building, says former CENTCOM chief
Sandra I. Erwin. National Defense Magazine, November 2003.

Toward a New Style of Warfare
John A. Tirpak. Air Force Magazine, November 2003.

Toward a More Secure America
David Cortright, et.al. Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute, November 2003 (.pdf file).

Joint Operations Concepts
Department of Defense, November 2003. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center website (.doc file).

Generals Point Ways to Better Blue Force
Matthew French. Federal Computer Week, 21 October 2003.

C4I Interoperability: New Challenges in 21st Century Warfare
House Armed Services Committee, 21 October 2003. Posted on the Information Warfare Site.

Bandwidth in Iraq a Subject of Debate
Matthew French. Federal Computer Week, 20 October 2003.

From "Defending Forward" To a "Global Defense-in-depth": Globalization and Security
Antulio J. Echevarria II and Bert B. Tussing. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, October 2003.

Roadblocks Ahead for Joint Tactical Radio
Sandra I. Erwin. National Defense Magazine, October 2003.

Military Transformation:  A Strategic Approach
Department of Defense, Fall 2003.Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site (.pdf file).

Phase I Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Joint Experimentation
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, September 2003 (.pdf file).

US Special Operations Forces (SOF):  Background and Issues for Congress
Andrew Feickert. Congressional Research Service, 15 August 2003. Posted on the FAS web site.

Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Enabling Joint Force Capabilities
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, August 2003 (.pdf file).

Conquering the Elements:  Thoughts on Joint Force (Re)organization
Michael P. Noonan and Mark R. Lewis. Parameters, August 2003. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website (.pdf file).

Jointness, Defense Transformation, and the Need for a New Joint Warfare Profession
Don M. Snider. Parameters, August 2003. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website (.pdf file).

House Passes DOD IT Cuts
Matthew French. Federal Computer Week, 09 July 2003.

Toward a Global Cavalry:  Overseas Rebasing and Defense Transformation
Thomas Donnelly and Vance Serchuk. American Enterprise Institute, July 2003.

The New American Way of War
Max Boot. Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003.

Next Steps in Defense Restructuring
Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2003.

The Unfinished Revolution in Military Affairs
Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2003.

DOD Chat Use Exploded in Iraq
Dan Caterinicchia. Federal Computer Week, 23 June 2003.

Planning a Revolution:  Mapping the Pentagon's Transformation
Arthur Cebrowski. WebMemo #292, Heritage Foundation, 12 June 2003.

The Unfinished Revolution in Military Affairs
Andrew Krepinevich. Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2003.

Military Transformation Complicates Acquisitions, Officials Say
Molly M. Peterson. National Journal's Technology Daily, 14 May 2003. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site (.doc file).

Quiet Transformation:  The Role of the Office of Net Assessment
Debra O. Maddrell. National War College, NDU, 02 May 2003. (.pdf file).

Adapting the Military to the Homeland Defense and Homeland Security Missions
Dale W. Meyerrose. Program on Information Resources Policy, JFK School, Harvard. May 2003.

Defense Transformation:  DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel System and
David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States. Testimony before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives. General Accounting Office, 1 May 2003.

Defense Transformation:  Preliminary Observations on DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel Reforms
David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. General Accounting Office, 29 April 2003.

Transforming Transformation
Mackubin Thomas Owens. National Review, April 23 2003.

Safeguarding GPS
Frank Vizard. Scientific American, 14 April 2003.

Global Concept of Operations
Mike Mullen. Naval Institute Proceedings, April 2003.

Transforming Transformation: Defense-Planning Lessons from Iraq
Mackubin T. Owens. National Review, April 2003. Posted on the Ashbrook Center website.

Transforming How We Fight
Christopher D. Kolenda. Naval War College Review. Spring 2003. Posted on the Find Articles website.

Transformation Planning Guidance
Department of Defense. April 2003. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation website (.pdf file).

Defense Approves New Info Framework
Dan Caterinicchia. Federal Computer Week, 05 August 2003.

Computing a New Plan of Attack (Free Registration Required)
Ted McKenna. Journal of Electronic Defense, March 2003.

Security Transformation:  Report of the Belfer Center Conference on Military Transformation
John P. White and John Deutch. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, March 2003. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website.

Are Our Troops Ready for Biological and Chemical Attacks?
Eric R. Taylor. Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 467, 5 February 2003.

A Swift, Elusive Sword, Second Edition
Chester W. Richards. Center for Defense Information, 01 February 2003 (.pdf file).

Decision Dominance:  Exploiting Transformational Asymmetries
Merrick E. Krause. Defense Horizons. Institute for National Security Studies, NDU, February 2003 (.pdf file).

Military Faces Bandwidth Crunch
Noah Shachtman. Wired News, 31 January 2003.

An Evolving Joint Perspective:  US Joint Warfare and Crisis Resolution in the 21st Century
28 January 2003. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center (.pdf file).

Enabling a Transformation in Joint Operations
John S. Yuhas. Military Information Technology, 17 January 2003.

Transformation of Special Operations:  Reducing Joint Friction
John R. Basehart. U.S. Army War College, 2003. Hosted by STINET database (.pdf file).

Base Structure Report: Fiscal Year 2003 Baseline
Department of Defense, 2003. Posted on Global Policy Forum website.

Global Strike Task Force and Stryker Brigade Combat Team:  Prospects for Integration in the Forcible Entry Mission
Mark G. Czelusta. U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2003. Hosted by STINET database (.pdf file).

Transformation:  Are We on a Joint Path?
Ancel B. Yarbrough II. School of Advanced Military Studies, 2003. Hosted by STINET database (.pdf file).

Meeting the Anti-Access and Area-Denial Challenge
Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts, and Robert Work. Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessment, 2003.

Operation Iraqi Freedom:  A First-Blush Assessment
Andrew F. Krepinevich. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2003.

Military Transformation and the Defense Industry after Next
Peter J. Dombrowski, Eugene Gholz, and Andrew L. Ross. Naval War College, 2003. Posted on the Science Technology and Information Network website (.pdf file).

The Silence of the Labs
Don J. DeYoung. Defense Horizons. Institute for National Security Studies, NDU, January 2003.

The Real Transformation:  Building and Maintaining Long-Term Competitive Advantage
Edward C. Cardon. National War College, NDU, 2003 (.pdf file).

Defense Acquisitions:  Factors Affecting Outcomes of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations
General Accounting Office, December 2002.

VAdm Cebrowski Speech
Transformation Conference sponsored by the Center for Naval Analyses, 20 November 2002. Posted on the Office of Force Transformation web site (.doc file).

Effects Based Operations:  Applying Network Centric Warfare in Peace, Crisis, and War
Edward A. Smith. Commond Control and Research Program, November 2002. Posted on IWAR.com web site (.pdf file).

Navy-Air Force Plan to Modernize Electronic Warfare is Unconvincing
Lena Byrne. National Defense Magazine, November 2002.

Tech Firms Seek To Play Role In Military Transformation Effort
Molly M. Peterson. Daily Briefing. Government Executive Magazine, 29 October 2002.

Interoperability: Is It Achievable?
Anthony W. Faughn. Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University, October 2002.

Chemical and Biological Defense:  Observations on DOD's Risk Assessment of Defense Capabilities
Raymond J. Decker. Testimony before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. General Accounting Office, 1 October 2002.

Papers from 7th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
September 16 - 20, 2002. Quebec City, Canada. Sponsors: US DOD Command and Control Research Program and the Canadian Department of National Defence, Defence Research & Development.

Everything You Think You Know About the American Way of War Is Wrong
Max Boot. Foreign Policy Research Institute, 12 September 2002.

Military Experimentation Effort Slow to Get Off the Ground
George Cahlink. Government Exective, 05 September 2002.

Incompatible Battle-Command Systems: There's No Easy Fix
Sandra I. Erwin. National Defense Magazine, September 2002.

Can We Put the Leaders of the "Axis of Evil" in the Crosshairs?
Matthew S. Pape. Parameters, Autumn 2002.

A New War Demands a New Military
Andrew Krepinevich. The Wall Street Journal, 10 September 2002. Posted on the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments website.

Rumsfeld the Radical
Tom Donnelly. The Weekly Standard, 9 September 2002.

U.S. Military Operations at Home and Abroad: Learning from September 11
Karen Guttieri. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 29 August- 2 September 2002. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website (.pdf file).

Transformation Concepts for National Security in the 21st Century
Williamson Murray. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, September 2002. Posted on the e11th Hour website.

America's Innovative Advantage: Systems Integration in the U.S. Defense Industry
Eugene Gholz. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 29 August- 2 September 2002. Posted on the Commonwealth Institute website (.pdf file).

Demystifying 'Transformation'
Linda D. Kozaryn. American Forces Information Service, Air University, 14 August 2002.

Military Transformation: Actions Needed to Better Manage DoD's Joint Experimentation Program
Report to Congressional Committees, U.S. General Accounting Office, August 2002.

Military Transformation:  Actions Needed to Better Manage DOD's Joint Experimentation Program
US General Accounting Office, August 2002.

Military Transformation and the Roots of National Security
Amory B. Lovins. Rocky Mountain Institute, 19 July 2002.

Gen. Jumper: Time to Change Traditional Program Advocacy
Sandra I. Erwin. National Defense Magazine, July 2002.

Congressional Aid Finds Spending on "Core Readiness" in Decline
Elaine M. Grossman. Defense and the National Interest, 28 June 2001.

The Pentagon's New Budget, New Strategy, and New War
Carl Conetta. Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Report #12. 25 June 2002.

The Pentagon's New Budget, New Strategy, and New War
Carl Conetta. Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Report #12. 25 June 2002.

Terrorism and the Transformation of U.S. Military Forces
Elinor Sloan. Canadian Military Journal, Summer 2002.

The 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review, the FY 2003 Defense Budget Request and the Way Ahead for Transformation: Meeting the "Rumsfeld Test"
Michael Vickers. The Backgrounder, 19 June 2002. Posted on the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments website.

Empty Promises: Why the Bush Administration's Half-Hearted Attempts at Defense Reform Have Failed
David Isenberg and Ivan Eland. Policy Analysis #442. The Cato Institute, 11 June 2002.

Information Age Transformation Getting to a 21st Century Military (EXE file produces PDF)
David S. Alberts. Command and Control Research Program, Department of Defense, June 2002.

Base Structure Report: Fiscal Year 2002 Baseline
Department of Defense, June 2002.

Mr. Smith Is Dead: No One Stands in the Way as Congress Laces Post-September 11 Defense Bills with Pork
Winslow T. Wheeler. Defense and the National Interest, June 2002.

Information Technology:  DoD Needs to Improve Process for Ensuring Interoperability of Telecommunications Switches
US General Accounting Office, June 2002.

Enabling Operational Maneuver From Strategic Distances
Brig. Gen. Huba Wass de Czege and Lt. Col. Zbigniew M. Majchrzak. Military Review, May/June 2002.

Military Transformation: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Judy G. Chizek. Report for Congress, 31 May 2002. Posted on the Federation of American Scientists website.

The Growing Demand for Better Military Communications
Roger Lesser. RF Cover Story, May 2002. Posted on the RF Design website (.pdf file).

Military Transformation and Legacy Forces
Williamson Murray and Thomas O'Leary. Joint Force Quarterly, Spring 2002. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center website.

Seeking Synergy: Joint-Effects Based Operations
Price T. Bingham. Joint Force Quarterly, Spring 2002. Posted on the Defense Technical Information Center website.

Military Transformation for Warfare in the 21st Century: Balancing Implications of Urban Operations and Emerging Joint Operational Concepts
Lt. Col. Charles L. Taylor. U.S. Army War College, 9 April 2002.

Ushering In the Warfare Information Age
Peter Pae. Los Angeles Times, 16 March 2002. Posted on the GlobalSecurity.org website.

The President's FY2003 Defense Request: Winning the War, Transformation, and Reform
Josh S. Weston, chairman, Business Executives for National Security. Testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, 28 Feb 2002.

Lighting the Path Ahead: Field Exercises and Transformation
Andrew F. Krepinevich. Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments, 25 February 2002.

2003 Defense Budget Request: Large Increase in Funding, Few Changes to Plans
Steven Kosiak. Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments, 4 February 2002.

An Interoperability Roadmap for C4ISR Legacy Systems
Lt. Col. John A. Hamilton, Jr., et. al. Acquisition Review Quarterly, Winter 2002.

Equipping Tomorrow's Military Force:  Integration of Commercial and Military Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond
National Academies Press, 2002.

Rapid Decisive Operations: Getting the Structure Right
Col. Daniel Smith. Center for Defense Information, 30 November 2001.

Rapid Decisive Operations: An Assumptions-Based Critique
Antulio J. Echevarria II. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, November 2001 (.pdf file).

Arming Soldiers for a New Kind of War
Andrew Krepinevich. Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments, 26 October 2001.

Special Operations Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom: Background and Issues for Congress
Edward F. Bruner, et. al. CRS Report for Congress, 15 October 2001. Posted on the U.S. State Department, Foreign Press Centers website.

Building A Battlespace Wide Web
Lt. Col. Robert A. Colella. Aerospace Chronicles, 10 October 2001.

Interoperability: Is It Achievable?
Anthony W. Faughn. Presentation, Center for Policy Information Research, Harvard University, October 2002.

Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act: Has it Worked?
James R. Locher III. Naval War College Review, Autumn 2001. Posted on the Find Articles website.

US Must Reappraise Weaponry
Joseph Cirincione. The Boston Globe, 18 September 2001. Posted on the Carnegie Endowment website.

Resurrecting Transformation for the Post-Industrial Era
Douglas A. Macgregor. Defense Horizons No. 2. Center for Technology and National Security Policy. National Defense University, September 2001.

Reforging Sword: Forces for the 21st Century Security Strategy
Col. Daniel Smith, Marcus Corbin, and Christopher Hellman. Washington DC: Center for Defense Information. September 2001.

Crucified on a Cross of Goldwater-Nichols
James M. Simon, Jr. Seminar presentation, Center for Information Policy Research, Harvard University, July 2001.

How We Fight: A Dominating Maneuver Doctrinal Essay
Strategic Assessment Center. McLean VA: Science Applications International Corporation.

The Joint Force: A Decade, No Progress
Douglas A. MacGregor. Joint Force Quarterly, Winter 2000-2001.

Disjointed War: Military Operations in Kosovo, 1999
Bruce R. Nardulli, et. al. RAND, 2002.

Will the Bush/Rumsfeld Pentagon Endorse Existing Plans to Worsen Military Readiness?
Defense and the National Interest, June 2001.

Reorganizing America's Military for the 21st Century
Multimedia report from conference sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC, 21 June 2001.

The Bush Administration's Call for Defense Transformation: A Congressional Guide
Andrew Krepinevich. Washington DC: Center for Strategic Budgetary and Assessments, 19 June 2001.

Three Myths About DoD's Weapons Modernization Requirements
Steven M. Kosiak. Backgrounder. Washington DC: Center for Strategic Budgetary and Assessments, 18 June 2001.

Pentagon's Unreliable Bookkeeping Stands as Obstacle to Bush Reforms
David Wood. Newhouse News Service, 12 June 2001.

Financial Accountability and Contractor Oversight Failures
Danielle Brian & Beth Daley. From the Briefing Book on The Bush Administration's Strategic Defense Review. Foreign Policy in Focus, 10 May 2001.

Thinking about Innovation
Williamson Murray. NWC Review (Spring 2001). Posted on the Find Articles website.

A Swift, Elusive Sword: What if Sun Tzu and John Boyd Did a National Defense Review?
Chester W. Richards. Washington DC: Center for Defense Information, May 2001.

A Concept for Rapid Decisive Operations
U.S. Joint Forces Command, May 2001. Posted on the Globalsecurity.org website. NOTE: Will open as a Word document.

War gaming in the Information Age
Paul Bracken and Martin Shubik. NWC Review (Spring 2001). Posted on the Find Articles website.

Global 2000
Kenneth Watman. NWC Review (Spring 2001). Posted on the Find Articles website.

Transforming Warfare with Effects-Based Joint Operations.
Lt Col Price T. Bingham, USAF (ret). Aerospace Power Journal (Spring 2001).

Transforming Military Operational Capabilities
Transformation Study Report, 27 April 2001. Posted on the DefenseLink website (.pdf file).

he New American Defense Policy
Eliot A. Cohen. Saisphere, Winter 2001.

Trim Pentagon Fat
John Isaacs and Dan Koslofsky. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan/Feb 2001.

Piercing the Fog Bank: America's Military Needs to Re-Examine its Most Basic Premises
Steven J. Nider. New Democrats Online, 20 December 2000.

National Strategies and Capabilities for a Changing World
Final report and transcripts from the 30th annual IFPA-Fletcher Conference held in Arlington VA 15-16 November 2000. Hosted by the US Army and co-sponsored by the OSD for Net Assessment.
Transcripts

Joint Vision 2020
Chairman JCS. 24 October 2000.

Toward a Smaller, More Efficient, and More Relevant US Military
Carl Conetta. PDA Briefing Memo 17. Cambridge USA: Commonwealth Institute, October 2000.

Defense Disconnect: How Interop is Challenging the Top Brass
Grahame Lynch. America's Network,15 September 2000.

Ready for What?
Andrew Krepinevich. Wall Street Journal,1 September 2000. Posted on CSBA Web site.

Failed States and Casualty Phobia: Implications for Force Structure and Technology Choices
Jeffrey Record. Occasional Paper No. 18. Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College. September 2000.

Seeking a National Strategy: A Concert for Preserving Security and Promoting Freedom
U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. 15 April 2000. Posted on the FAS Website.

Military Experimentation--Time To Get Serious
Andrew Krepinevich. CSBA Backgrounder. 31 March 2000.

Do Mobile Satellite Service Systems Fundamentally Improve Military Communications (pdf download)
George W. Hays. Research Report, Program on Information Resources Policy. Cambridge MA: Harvard University, March 2000.

Defense Science & Technology Strategy & Plans
US Department of Defense, February 2000. Posted on the Western States Legal Foundation website: wslfweb.org

Annual Report to the President and Congress. Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense, 2000.
Chapter 8: Information Superiority And Space
Chapter 11: Strategy for Military Transformation

Joint Vision 2010 Technology
Joseph E. Eash III. Joint Force Quarterly (Autumn/Winter 1999-2000)

Revolutionizing Warfare
Adm. William A. Owens. New Democrats Online, January 1, 2000.

Buying Smart
Keith B. Bickel. New Democrats Online, January 1, 2000.

Transforming US Forces: Lessons from a Wider Revolution
Rand Issue Paper. Santa Monica: Rand, 2000.

Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
Ashton B. Carter and John P. White. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Informational Warfare: US Organizational Activities
Appendix to a Joint Staff report. Posted on Information Warfare Research Center Website.

DOD's Current Force Transformation Activities
Richard O. Hundley. Past Revolutions, Future Transformations. Santa Monica: Rand, 1999.

Transformation Modernization Strategy
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. ADA Magazine (Winter 1999).

Science, Technology And Military Strength
Michael Vickers. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 12 November 1999.

Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force DoD Warfighting Transformation
Washington DC: Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, September 1999.

A Concept Framework for Rapid Decisive Operations in the 21st Century
U.S. Joint Decisive Operations, 22 October 1999. Posted on the Globalsecurity.org website. NOTE: Will open as a Word document.

Military Operations: Status of DOD Efforts to Develop Future Warfighting Capability
United States General Accounting Office, March 1999.

Why No Transformation?
Andrew Krepinevich. National Interest (4 February 1999). Posted on Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Web site.

Command and Control for Joint Strategic Action
Colonel Douglas Macgregor. Joint Force Quarterly (Autumn/Winter 1998-1999).

A Vanguard Force: Accelerating the American Revolution in Military Affairs
James R. Blaker. Progressive Policy Institute, Defense Working Group Policy Brief, November 1997.

Transforming the American Military
Andrew Krepinevich. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 1 September 1997.

Understanding the Revolution in Military Affairs: A Guide to America's 21st Century Defense
James Blaker. Progressive Policy Institute, Defense Policy Working Paper 3, January 1997.

The Emerging U.S. System-of-Systems
Admiral William A. Owens. Strategic Forum 63, Institute for National Strategic Studies, February 1996.

Dominant Battlespace Knowledge
Stuart Johnson and Martin Libicki. National Defense University Press, October 1995.

Ready for What and Modernized Against Whom?
Jeffrey Record. Parameters (Autumn 1995).

Transforming National Defense
Carlton Meyer, G2Mil.

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