Naval Postgraduate School SE 3100 Homework Assignment #9 Assignment:   Advanced System Topics Consider this quote:  "Our incipient Network Centric Warfare (NCW) plans may suffer defeat by adversaries using primitive but cagey techniques, inspired by an ideology we can neither match nor understand; or by an enemy who can knock out our vulnerable Global Positioning System or use electromagnetic pulse weapons on a limited scale, removing intelligence as we have construed it and have come to depend upon

Naval Postgraduate School

SE 3100

Homework Assignment #9

Assignment:   Advanced System Topics

Consider this quote:  "Our incipient Network Centric Warfare (NCW) plans may suffer defeat by adversaries using primitive but cagey techniques, inspired by an ideology we can neither match nor understand; or by an enemy who can knock out our vulnerable Global Positioning System or use electromagnetic pulse weapons on a limited scale, removing intelligence as we have construed it and have come to depend upon. Fighting forces accustomed to relying upon downlinks for information and commands would have little to fall back upon."

1. Is DoD is setting itself up for failure by implementing NCW or not?
2. Is this a critical vulnerability? 
3. Identify and discuss some systems engineering solutions to address this vulnerability.