JP 3-13, Information Operations - Defense Innovation Marketplace

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
COMMANDER’S OVERVIEW
• Provides an Overview of Information Operations (IO) and the Information
Environment
• Describes IO and Its Relationships and Integration
• Addresses IO Authorities, Responsibilities, and Legal Considerations
• Explains Integrating Information-Related Capabilities into the Joint
Operation Planning Process
• Covers Multinational Information Operations
Overview
The ability to share information
in near real time, anonymously
and/or securely, is a capability
that is both an asset and a
potential vulnerability to us, our
allies, and our adversaries.
The Information Environment
The instruments of national power (diplomatic,
informational, military, and economic) provide
leaders in the US with the means and ways of
dealing with crises around the world. Employing
these means in the information environment
requires the ability to securely transmit, receive,
store, and process information in near real time.
The nation’s state and non-state adversaries are
equally aware of the significance of this new
technology, and will use information-related
capabilities (IRCs) to gain advantages in the
information environment, just as they would use
more traditional military technologies to gain
advantages in other operational environments. As
the strategic environment continues to change, so
does information operations (IO). Based on these
changes, the Secretary of Defense now
characterizes IO as the integrated
employment, during military operations, of
IRCs in concert with other lines of operation to
influence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp the
decision making of adversaries and potential
adversaries while protecting our own.
The information environment is the aggregate of
individuals, organizations, and systems that
collect, process, disseminate, or act on
information. This environment consists of three
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