By MC2 Shawn J. Stewart

NPS Professor of Practice retired Navy Capt. Jeffrey E. Kline introduces students to the Maritime War 2030 scenario during a session of the Technologies for Information Operations (TIO) short course held in Ingersoll Hall, Nov. 3. Held nearly every year since 1996 by the Center for Joint Services Electronic Warfare, the TIO course details current research and development in information operations technologies, and the fundamentals of information operations.

This year, NPS’ Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) partnered with TIO organizers to integrate the concept of their current Warfare Innovation Continuum into the program.

“The TIO course is handling a particularly difficult element of this scenario, one in which the adversaries use hybrid war elements, state and non-state resources, cyber and social media to create confusion and uncertainty,” said Kline. “The students’ task is to apply the information technologies they learn in their three weeks here in a final two-day workshop that might help in this scenario.”

Attendees for this year's three-week TIO course include a core group of 19 students from the Swedish Defense University (SEDU) as well as a Pakistani officer, and four officers from the Indonesian Navy.

"The TIO course is a real opportunity to engage allies and create informal professional alliances that may aid future cooperative operations," Kline added.