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Foreword

The global spread of sophisticated information technology is changing the speed at which warfare is conducted. Through the early adoption of high-tech data links, worldwide communication networks, people skills and advanced reconnaissance and surveillance systems, the U.S. Navy has long enjoyed information superiority overpotential adversaries. However, our advantage is eroding as more nations, transnational criminal organizations and non-state actors are acquiring and employing more advanced computing and networked systems. Many, in fact, are actively exploiting our networks and developing the means to challenge our technological edge. To meet these challenges, the Navy is aggressively pursuing a multi-faceted approachto warfighting which ensures our information superiority in future conflict. This Navy Strategy for Achieving Information Dominance frames the approach and will guide the development of our information capabilities and their integration into the fleet. It reinforces our consolidation of information-related programs, resources and manpower under a single sponsor, and accelerates the workaccomplished over the last three years to integrate Information Dominance into our Navy as a core warfighting competency. Finally, it bolsters our efforts to master the cyberspace domain and the electromagnetic spectrum, just as we have mastered the physical domains of the maritime battlespace Joining surface, subsurface, air and special warfare, information dominance is our newest warfighting pillar,delivering the non-kinetic complement to our kinetic capabilities in the cyberspace domain. The Information Dominance pillar can be our most powerful asset, or it can be our greatest liability. If we integrate it intelligently, and if we execute it correctly, we will be able to seize the operational initiative, gain tactical advantage, and win future battles with overwhelming speed. InformationDominance is indispensable to our Navy, enabling the Navy to fight and win today, while ensuring the ability to win tomorrow. It is imperative that we embrace Navy Information Dominance deliberately and expeditiously, and always be ready to fight. Please join us in executing this strategy.

KENDALL L. CARD Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy Deputy Chief of Naval Operations For Information Dominance

MICHAEL S.ROGERS Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy Commander, Fleet Cyber Command/ Commander, TENTH Fleet

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Executive Summary
The continuing evolution in information technology presents both opportunities and challenges for the U.S. Navy. Information is becomingincreasingly central to all aspects of maritime warfighting and is core to the Navy’s strategic, operational and tactical missions of sea control, power projection, deterrence and forward presence. Whether characterized as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, networks, communications, space, cyber, meteorology, oceanography, or electronic warfare, the Navy is inextricably and irreversibly dependenton information. Information provides a source of power but can also be an incapacitating weakness if not protected. Mastering the information domain is critical to the Navy’s future success. Complicating the Navy’s challenges are the ways in which information has evolved in the modern era. Although historically employed as an enabler of combat (information “in” warfare), information is beingdeployed more and more as a weapon (information “as” warfare). Cyberspace is the information warfighting domain, and the network and the electromagnetic spectrum comprise the battlespace. This continued transformation of information as both a weapon and an enabler in combat is driving an altogether unique warfighting capability that the U.S. Navy is calling Information Dominance. Defined as the...