1. Navy Information Operations
Creating the Information Advantage
RADM Joseph Burns
OPNAV N39/NETWARCOM N9
29 April 2004

2. Direction for DoD
OSD IO Roadmap signed 30 Oct 03 Lays out the plan to transform IO to a core military competency
Recommendations:
Approve a common understanding of IO
Consolidate Oversight & Advocacy for IO
Delegate Capabilities to COCOMS
Create a Well-trained & Educated Career Force
Provide Consolidated & Comprehensive Analytic
Support
Correct Immediate Shortfalls & Develop a Long-term
Defense in Depth Strategy for CND
Mature CNA into a Reliable Warfighting Capability
Develop an Electronic Warfare Investment Strategy
Increase Psychological Operations Capabilities
Clarify Lanes in the Road for PSYOP, PA, & PD
Assign Advocacy for OPSEC and MILDEC
Improve Transparency of IO in the P/P/B/E System

3. Direction for Navy
The importance of information operations will grow in the years ahead…
“Information operations will play a key role in controlling crisis escalation and preparing the battlefield for subsequent attack.”
SEA POWER 21 ADM Clark
“Information operations will be a backbone and force multiplier to our combat operations and a fundamental part of Sea Strike.”
SEA POWER 21 Series Part III

4. Context… Naval Vision
“Forward postured, immediately employable… in joint and multinational environments”

5. Strategy for the IO Warfare Area
Organize
N39 established
NAVNETWARCOM established
Navy IO Planners and Capability Specialists
Partnerships with Services and National Agencies
Imbedded
Capabilities
Man/Train
Training cycle integration
Mission Area Analysis
Building IO professionals
Formalize IO training pipeline
Equip
IO Architecture
Fleet Battle Experiments
Acceleration efforts
Sea Trial / Demonstrations

6. Key Players For Navy IO OPNAV N39 CFFC/COMFLT/Numbered Fleet N39’s
- Navy IO Strategy and Policy
CFFC/COMFLT/Numbered Fleet N39’s
Planning for joint and naval ops; synchronized execution
Naval Network Warfare Command – N9
- IO Type Commander
Carrier Strike Groups and Expeditionary
Strike Groups
- IWC’s and IW Module – Operating forces

7. Initiatives
Continue to build Maritime IO into an asymmetric warfare area that meets threats and supports a variety of mission areas.
Shape the information battlespace and create information advantages.
Leverage Forward Presence with PSYOP
Develop a coherent EW Roadmap
Expand Navy Computer Network Ops
Improve OPSEC and MILDEC
Shape the professional workforce appropriate for Navy IO and Sea Power 21
Assess and measure IO in Sea Trial, other experimentation, and operations

8. Psychological Operations
Capabilities to deliver PSYOP messages and/or be the message.
Navy forward presence provides access for Strategic/Operational/Tactical influence campaigns to shape the “pre” and “post” conflict environment and the battlespace.
Navy PSYOP can support unique JFMCC requirements (MIO/GWOT/etc.)
Minimum investments embeds capability in Naval Operating forces to develop and disseminate PSYOP messages
A finite niche investment to further Naval missions!

9. Accelerate speed and amplify effects!
Electronic Warfare
Transform Maritime EW:
Network based passive surveillance, platform protection, and EA
Seamless cross-platform interoperability
Flexible to keep pace with rapid changes in technology
Comprehensive investment strategy
Develop central Navy EW issue focal point (N39)
Resource sponsorship embedded across NCPs
Actions: Coherent EW Roadmap
Framing Effort: N20, N24, N39, N61, N76, N77, N78, NIWA, CNSG,…
Define EW CONOPS & Architecture (NNWC)
Accelerate speed and amplify effects!

10. Capabilities to protect FORCEnet and support Maritime missions!
Computer Network Ops
Computer Network Attack
Spirally evolve capability
Strategic, Operational, Tactical
Lowest possible classification level
Leverage unique accesses
Computer Network Defense
Defense-in-depth
Balance of technology, people,
and operations.
Implementation across enclaves
Capabilities to protect FORCEnet and support Maritime missions!

11. Intelligence = Exploitation of adversary’s OPSEC failures
OPSEC/MILDEC
Integrate into planning, training
and operations
Enhance OPSEC Training Support
Revise OPSEC policy and doctrine
Expand vulnerability assessments
(Full spectrum Red/Blue Teaming)
Reinforce command emphasis
Navy has a role in Strategic
and Operational Deception
Modernize and augment tools for the future
Teach the art of deception; shape the battlespace
Intelligence = Exploitation of adversary’s OPSEC failures

12. Building the Art of Information Warfare!
Navy IO Career Force
Vision:
Develop and maintain a competent force of personnel with the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities to plan and execute Naval IO.
Educate the entire Navy workforce on IO.
Embed IO training throughout the Navy: Accession Training to Flag Training
Develop IO Career Force for the Fleet.
Consisting of IO planners and Capability Specialists
Employ SEA WARRIOR initiatives
Build on Mission Area Analysis and Job Task Analysis to match billets, people, and training; to identify gaps in requirements, training, and education.
Building the Art of Information Warfare!

13. Assessing a Warfare Area
Measuring IO effects is challenging.
How do you know how much IO is “enough” in Ops or in the budget?
Real time operational assessments of IO activities are necessary for Commanders.
No standard method to quantify non-kinetic effects
IO BDA tools and Combat Assessment needed
MOE needed for future investment.
Models and metrics struggle to adequately evaluate ‘influence’ & other pre and post conflict IO capabilities to quantify ROI.
A finite niche investment to further Naval missions!

14. Capabilities to create the Information Advantage!
Summary
IO is maturing as a maritime warfare area.
Navy committed to top-down, joint constructs.
Continue to refine right strategy, tactics and capabilities for maritime roles and missions.
Capabilities to create the Information Advantage!

15. Questions Navy IO RADM Joseph Burns
Information Advantage!
Creating the
RADM Joseph Burns
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
OPNAV N39, Information Operations
&
Naval Network Warfare Command
N9, Information Operations