Multi-domain operations science & technology

It is said that information superiority is perhaps the greatest asset in war. In this era of both network and Coalition centric warfare, each aimed at establishing information dominance, technologies which support multi-domain operations are more critical than ever. This paper examines the components of multi-domain operations and presents two complementary methods, cross-domain information sharing and multi-domain windowing, to achieve its four major functions: dissemination, discovery & retrieval, collaboration, and resource management. Analysis of these method based solutions reveals the opportunity to devise a collection of services which align with DoD and industry migration towards service oriented architectures as well as more diversity in secure networking schemes.