The Department [of Defense] will depend heavily on networking technology in its quest to deter and suppress global hostilities. Networking technology will be used to support simulation training, distributed planning, image exploitation and other intelligence gathering, and command and control to name a few.
Predictor: Jones, Anita K.
Prediction, in context:In a June, 1994 keynote speech she delivered at the first Grace Hopper Conference for women in computing, Anita Jones, director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense in the Clinton Administration, says: ”The Department [of Defense] will depend heavily on networking technology in its quest to deter and suppress global hostilities. Networking technology will be used to support simulation training, distributed planning, image exploitation and other intelligence gathering, and command and control to name a few.”
Biography:Anita Jones was chair of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Computing, Information and Communications and the Defense Director of Research and Engineering in the early 1990s, during the development of the Strategic Implementation Plan. She is the author of dozens of papers and many books. (Technology Administrator/Developer.)
Date of prediction: June 9, 1994
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Peacekeeping/Warfare
Name of publication: Keynote Speech: First Grace Hopper Conference
Title, headline, chapter name: None
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://gos.sbc.edu/j/jonesa.html
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