TY  - BOOK
AU  - Serena,Chad C.
AU  - Porche,Isaac
AU  - Predd,Joel B.
AU  - Osburg,Jan
AU  - Lossing,Bradley
ED  - Rand eBooks.
TI  - Lessons learned from the Afghan Mission Network: developing a coalition contingency network 
SN  - 0833085115 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - UB212 .S46 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan)
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-
KW  - Communications
KW  - Combined operations (Military science)
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Command and control systems
KW  - United States
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - "RAND Arroyo Center."; "The research reported here was … conducted within RAND Arroyo Center’s Force Development and Technology Program"--Preface; Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-21); Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) -- The Afghan Mission Network (AMN) -- Toward a Coalition Contingency Network; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - Recent and likely future U.S. military operations depend on coalitions of foreign military and nonmilitary partners, and a coalition mission network is necessary to support those operations. The Afghan Mission Network (AMN) is the primary network for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, allowing the United States and its coalition partners to share information and data across a common Secret system. Many view the AMN as a successful enabler of coalition information sharing. It is thus critical that the Army understand the principal lessons of the development of this network as it plans to develop future coalition contingency networks. To this end, the Army Chief Information Officer/G-6 asked RAND Arroyo Center to provide an independent review and assessment of the operational and technical history of the AMN and to identify lessons learned for future coalition networks. The history of the AMN provides an example of how to develop information systems to support operational missions, but perhaps more important, it also yields tactical, operational, and policy-relevant lessons that can inform future efforts to create contingency networks that are both effective across the range of military operations and useful to a host of military and nonmilitary partners. This report presents findings drawn from interviews with key AMN developers and maintainers and the documentation they produced during the network’s development.
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ER  -