In the western military doctrine the principles of Commander’s Intent (CSI) and Command Intent (CI) is essential concepts that need to be communicated, exchanged and shared to facilitate information, knowledge, decision and effects superiority. To achieve better decisions and improve tempo, the western military forces has adopted to the NATO Network Enabled Capabilities (NNEC) or similar concepts. Networked Enabled Capabilities is primarily to let people network with the overarching process/method to exercise local initiative within the frame of CSI/CI. NEC is enabled by decentralization of authority and responsibility allowing subordinate commanders to plan and conduct operations based upon their understanding of the local situation.
However, one can argue that control is lost with subordinates initiative and self-synchronization. But, with consistent understanding of CSI/CI together with shared situation awareness the focus and direction will be kept and promoted. With coordinated movement amongst participants towards a unified whole where individual teams, under comparable situations, are able to act and respond equivalent, convergence is established, and effects are delivered that shapes the behavior of allies and enemies.
Thus, the ability to communicate and automatically process Intent, Effects and representations of Situational Awareness is then central for the participants.
This paper presents insights how to create a model, formalization and design that capture Intent and Effect to such degree that it can be communicated and automatically processed in traditional and network-enabled military organizations Command and Control (C2) systems.
Brisbane, Australia, 2010.