Agile C2 in naval operations. MONiTOR: final report
Publish date: 2017-12-13
Report number: FOI-R--4480--SE
Pages: 71
Written in: Swedish
Keywords:
- adaptability
- naval command and control
- C2 agility
- performance assessment
Abstract
For three years the research project MONiTOR: Naval command and control has studied the navy's command and control (C2) concepts and coupled them to the C2 agility theories that have been developed by several research groups within the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO). The project has interpreted and adapted these C2 agility theories based on how the Swedish Armed Forces in general, and the Swedish Royal Navy in particular, conduct C2. For this purpose MONiTOR has examined parts of the navy's tactical procedures from an agility perspective. Furthermore the project has contributed to the continued development of the C2 agility concept through active participation in the concurrent NATO STO research activities on C2 agility. The primary purpose of the project has been to gain increased knowledge on the naval C2 systems and C2 agility. A large portion of the work presented in this report, as in past project reports, is based on this knowledge build-up. To strengthen MONiTOR's theoretical contributions, the project have brought in related theories from organization management to the overall theories, e.g. shared leadership, system discontinuance intentions, as well as organizational and individual adaptability. The project has developed an instrument to describe and assess the C2 agility capability. The instrument focuses on preconditions for adaptation and in particular within the Swedish Royal Navy's C2 systems. The instrument also includes a component for assessing the adaptability per se, both individual and organizational, in particular relating to how the C2 system handles deviating events and situations. This report gives a summary over the results that have been developed during the project through theory development, empirical studies and collaboration with research partners.