DMO Military: Behind the Scenes with the US Department of Defense's Secretive Unit We weren’t able to create a summary for you. Refresh your page to try again. Robinson Harris, “ DMO and the Firepower Revolution: Evolving the Carrier and Surface Force Relationship,” Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), September 9, 2024. Robinson Harris, “ DMO and the Firepower Revolution: Evolving the Carrier and Surface Force Relationship,” Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), September 9, 2024. Seal of theUnitedStatesDepartmentofDefense, depicting an American Eagle holding three arrows, superimposed by the shield adorned withthe design of the American flag. Below is the green wreath. Defense Primer: Navy Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) Concept Introduction or detecting and attacking U.S. Navy surface ships with anti-ship missiles and other weapons. An issue for Congress is whether Congress has sufficient information about DMO Terminology: Operating Concept The Navy first presented DMO for broad consideration in Chief of Naval Operations John M. Modern conflict may present commanders with the opposite challenge: making decision...See full list on usni.orgThe technical vulnerabilities within DMO are easily identifiable. DMO creates a more insidious cognitive vulnerability for tactical commanders. Navy and its Royal Navy forebear historically have pursued improved communication technologies to make command and control more effective. Both navies displayed decreased initiative and increa...See full list on usni.orgTactical DMO still requires a visual mental model, and three separate issues make building one difficult. The first may come down to which definition of “distributed” comes more immediately to mind: shared or spread out? Multiple tactical platforms operating at great distances (the spread-out component) precludes useful representation or even cogni...See full list on usni.orgExecuting DMO at the tactical level will be complex.