What Information Architecture for Defense?

Two-thirds of all personal computers and almost all networks and databases are used for business, not recreation. Plausibly, therefore, most decisions that information technology supposedly improves are those made in an organizational context. They result, one way or another, from interactions among people and their machines. As such, the quality of the decisions an organization makes is increasingly related to how it constructs its information systems. These architectures are often faithful reflections of the tacit assumptions about power and purpose held in these organizations. Architecture and organization are linked. An organization’s tendencies shape its architecture; its architecture, in turn, helps shape its culture.