Initiative Description:

• Create a net-centric operations center / war-fighting laboratory to support learning and experimenting with the concepts of net-centric warfare, operational maneuver from the sea (OMFTS), information management and information warfare
• Scalable, configurable and networked with NWC, NWDC, MCCDC and other activities involved in operational concepts development
• Core courses in Tactics and Strategy, Warfare Capstone and Leadership will use the operations center
• Envisioned as located in Luce Hall Planetarium (retain planetarium function)

Expected Outcome/Benefit:

• Enhance the understanding of warfare at both operational and tactical levels through wargaming, scenario based teaching and experimentation
• Contribute to the study of naval leadership, tactical warfare understanding and decisionmaking in an information intensive environment
• Provide USNA with an advanced learning capability required to teach emerging operational concepts
• Provide a venue for military faculty and staff presentations of current and future naval and joint operations to promote professional currency and faculty development
• Support the study of information technology and leadership across the curriculum

Executive Sponsor:  Superintendent (DITS)