Network Centric Warfare, the new paradigm of future warfighting, will produce increased amounts of information, and new tools will be needed to better utilize that information. With the increase in the flows of information, decisionmaking tools and processes from the strategic to the tactical level will allow force elements to be used more effectively during a campaign. Understanding the appropriate mixes of effects-generating capabilities necessary to provide a given measure of outcome—and how these capabilities might be employed in the network-centric future—is the driver for the work on internetting of fires (IOF). Simply put, IOF is “the ability to engage.
