Research on Edge Organizations in The Context of Network-Centric Operations

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Research on Edge Organizations in The Context of Network-Centric Operations: The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has established and currently manages the Center for Edge Power to conduct research and educational activities proposed on behalf of the OASD (NII)/DoD CIO. The Edge Center focuses on research pertaining to Defense command, control and organization in general and on Edge Organizations in the context of Network Centric Operations in particular. The research will be performed by faculty and students at NPS and other top-tier research institutions, and it will be integrated into a coherent research stream. This research opportunity description outlines five research areas of interest: (1) Research Area A - Hypothesis Testing of Edge Organizations. Research in this area seeks to employ tools, methods, and metrics related to network-centric / power to the edge concepts (including agility) to various theories of organization (including computational organization theory) to test hypotheses pertaining to Edge organizations. (2) Research Area B - Near-Optimizing Knowledge and Power Flows. Research in this area seeks to understand how flows of knowledge can enable and enhance flows of power to the edges of organizations. (3)Research Area C - Infrastructure Enhancement. Research in this area seeks to develop appropriate tools to create virtual environments, and to explore flows of knowledge, trust and power through diverse organizations in a variety of mission-environmental contexts. (4)Research Area D - Exploring and Exploiting Intercultural Knowledge Flows and Organizational Forms. (5)Research Area E - Emerging Research.