白宫、五角大楼和美国情报机构越来越强调信息战(IW)领域的重要性。信息战计划和工作突然变成国家的一些最高等级项目。有些政府官员认为信息战应当和大规模摧毁性武器一道列为本国的最高等级计划。 美海军信息密集系统(特别是通信情报部分)的最高管理机构是空间战和海战系统司令部(SPAWAR),SPAWAR的信息和电子战系统计划处处长Charles Ristorcell说,信息战包含了全部通信密集系统,即通信情报(COMINT)。该处的信息战任务有三个主要部分,信息战防 The White House, the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence agencies are increasingly emphasizing the importance of information warfare (IW). Information warfare plans and jobs suddenly became some of the nation’s top-rated projects. Some government officials believe that information warfare should be included as the highest-level plan in their country with mass destruction of weapons. Charles Ristorcell, SPAWAR’s chief of information and eWS program planning at SPAWAR, said the top management of the U.S. Navy’s information-intensive systems, especially the communications intelligence component, is Space Communications and Naval Battle Systems Command (SPAWAR). Information warfare includes all communications intensive System, that is, communications (COMINT). The information warfare mission there has three main parts, information warfare