Distributed information environment for Defense Information System Network (DISN)- far term

With DISN as a focus for future DoD networking R&D needs, firm alliances among the three services for joint, cooperative R&D and effective partnerships with industry and the academic communities the time has never been better for making major advances in the information infrastructure that will support command and control of the future. The first part of this paper considers the Joint Directors of Laboratories´ role in support of Defense Information Infrastructure (DII). The second part discusses an alliance that Rome Laboratory is making with regional commercial and academic counterparts that will also impact networking R&D