The expert team of experts approach to command-and-control (C2) organizations

This paper presents a concept which helps in understanding the Command and Control (C²) process associated with a well-trained team of military commanders each being an expert in problem-solving in his particular tactical warfare area, and has been delegated C²responsibility and authority over his resources by his superior commander. It is argued that due to his individual training a commander develops a principal expert model (PEM) of the warfare area in which he has specialized, which allows him to make superior tactical C²decisions based upon the tactical information available to him. In addition, as a consequence of centralized mission planning and team-training of the entire C²organization, each commander develops aggregated mutual expert models (MEM) of the PEM´s of the commanders that he strongly interacts with and competes for common team resources. This concept is referred to as the expert team of experts (ETOE) methodology.