In the us the equivalent term is ncw network centric warfare or increasingly nco network centric operations nec translates information superiority into combat power by networking sensors. Network centric warfare developing and leveraging information superiority descriptive note corporate author assistant secretary of defense c3i command control research program washington dc personal authors alberts david s garstka john j stein frederick p report date 2000 02 01 pagination or media count 2920 abstract war is a product of its age the tools and tactics of . Title network centric warfare developing and leveraging information superiority corporate author assistant secretary of defense c3i command control research program washington dc personal authors alberts david s garstka john j stein frederick p. Network centric warfare is the best term developed to date to describe the way we will organize and fight in the information age the chief of naval operations admiral jay johnson has called it a fundamental shift from platform centric warfare2 we define ncw as an information superiority enabled concept of. A key challenge in the development of network centric warfare ncw concepts is the establishment of suitable metrics for assessing the value of information and networking in the battlefield