Thursday, May 22, 2003

This is an excellent and detailed description of how knowledge is managed and transferred on the modern battlefield using what amounts to be a wireless intranet, commercially available off the shelf GPS and microsoft chat. Chat is used for real-time consideration of issues from the field by experts with quick turnaround. There are some great (and funny) examples of application of knowledge transfer in this article. It also details some of the environmental challenges of deploying the infrastructure to support it.