Pentagon official calls for more information sharing
A senior Pentagon official called for greater cooperation between the U.S.

A senior Pentagon official called for greater cooperation between the U.S. and partner countries in developing a comprehensive C4ISR architecture, during the Asia Pacific Security Conference (APSEC) here in Singapore this week. “We must share information with partners where appropriate, and we need their help to plug the gaps in coverage,” said Bruce Lemkin, Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs.

Information is “the petroleum of the twenty-first century, and bandwidth is the precious pipeline,” Lemkin continued. ISR is particularly significant in the vast Asia-Pacific region, he added. But there were challenges in the processing and disseminating of ISR data, and in the fusing of different types of data to enable true Network-Centric Operations (NCO).