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Arthur Karl Cebrowski 1942 – 2005 Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski USN (ret), died on 12 November 2005, surrounded by his beloved family. He was 63 years old, and had endured a long fight with cancer. Vice Admiral Cebrowski served his country for over forty years and dedicated his life to faith and family. Arthur Cebrowski was best known as the father of Network Centric Warfare, the intellectual and conceptual underpinnings for modern warfare in the information age. He wrote and lectured extensively and was regarded as one of the nation’s principle National Security futurists and the intellectual leader of...

Military people and civilians in the Defense Department have the opportunity to "get in on the ground floor" of transformation, DoD's chief of the Office of Force Transformation said in a recent interview. "They have the opportunity to not only see change take place in front of their eyes, but to actually make it happen," said retired Navy Vice Adm. Arthur Cebrowski. "You have a choice," he continued, "you can either create your own future, or you can become the victim of a future that someone else creates for you. By seizing the transformation opportunities, you are seizing the opportunity...

It is no longer enough to be a good manager focusing on efficiency and "optimization," DoD's director of force transformation said here today. "It is more important to be a good manager and a transformational leader," Arthur K. Cebrowski said at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Defense 2004 conference. "The role of good management, of the transformational leader, is to look at and identify perfectly predictable surprises and act in advance," Cebrowski told those assembled. "The responsibilities of transformational leaders are to identify disparities before they take place and stop wasting time with optimizations and efficiencies that will...

If you ask retired Navy Vice Admiral Arthur Cebrowski why service members and Defense Department civilian employees should care about efforts to transform the military, he is neither hesitant nor uncertain in his response. "There are two ways of looking at it. First, with so much transformation going on today, and so many efforts so broadly dispersed throughout the operating forces, all of our people – soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and civilians – have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor," Cebrowski said. "They have the opportunity to not only see change take place in front...