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PUBLIC LAW 106-398—APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1654A-239 in the document entitled "Joint Vision 2020", along with the advantages and disadvantages of pursing that concept. (D) A discussion on how the Department is implementing the concepts of network centric warfare as it relates to information superiority and decision superiority articulated in "Joint Vision 2020. ". (E) An identification and description of the current and planned activities of each of the Armed Forces relating to network centric warfare. (F) A discussion on how the Department plans to attain a fully integrated, joint command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C^ISR) capabihty. (G) A description of the joint requirements under development that will lead to the acquisition of technologies for enabling network centric warfare and whether those joint requirements are modifying existing service requirements and vision statements. (H) A discussion of how Department of Defense activities to establish a joint network centric capability are coordinated with other departments and agencies of the United States and with United States allies. (I) A discussion of the coordination of the science and technology investments of the military departments and Defense Agencies in the development of future joint network

centric warfare capabilities.

(J) The methodology being used to measure progress toward stated goals. (d) STUDY ON THE USE OF JOINT EXPERIMENTATION FOR DEVEL- OPING NETWORK CENTRIC WARFARE CONCEPTS. — (1) The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a study on the present and future use of the joint experimentation program of the Department of Defense in the development of network centric warfare concepts. (2) The Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the results of the study. The report shall include the following: (A) A survey of and description of how experimentation under the joint experimentation at United States Joint Forces Command is being used for evaluating emerging concepts in network centric warfare. (B) A survey of and description of how experimentation under the joint experimentation of each of the armed services are being used for evaluating emerging concepts in network centric warfare. (C) A description of any emerging concepts and recommendations developed by those experiments, with special emphasis on force structure implications. (3) The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall designate the Commander in Chief of the United States Joint Forces Command to carry out the study and prepare the report required under this subsection. (e) TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF REPORTS.—Each report required under this section shall be submitted not later than March 1, 2001.