Upgrade from UNCLAS to CONF if you have to ...

Like a reader emailed me,

This sounds great, if we could only be able to successfully navigate those websites to find the information we need then this could work. However, what about those forward deployed ships who can't even keep up with the email traffic that normally comes from a 6 month deployment. Let alone the bubbleheads, I seriously doubt that they would always have the time to sit there and try to download some of the NavAdmins via email or try and get to some website for further information when message traffic could work just as well.

What do you think?

R 061914Z JUL 10 ZUI ASN-PCC187001348 ZYB

FM COMPACFLT PEARL HARBOR HI//N6//

TO ALCOMPAC P

INFO ZEN/COMNAVCYBERFOR VIRGINIA BEACH VA

ZEN/COMNAVNETWARCOM VIRGINIA BEACH VA

ZEN/PEO C4I SAN DIEGO CA

ZEN/COMPACFLT PEARL HARBOR HI

BT

UNCLAS

ALCOMPAC P

COMNAVCYBERFOR FOR N82. PEO C4I FOR PMW 790.

MSGID/GENADMIN/MIL-STD-6040(SERIES)/B.0.01.00

/COMPACFLT PEARL HARBOR HI/-/-/-/-/-/-//

SUBJ/COMMAND E-MAIL (ACTION REQUIRED)//

REF/A/MSGID:GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/-/101116ZAUG2008//

REF/B/MSGID:GENADMIN/COMNAVCYBERFOR/-/251735ZMAR2010//

REF/C/MSGID:GENADMIN/COMNAVCYBERFOR/-/181752ZJUN2010//

NARR/REF A IS CNO MSG THAT ADDRESSED FUTURE OF NAVAL MESSAGING.

REFS B AND C ARE COMNAVCYBERFOR MESSAGES THAT PROVIDED INSTRUCTIONS ON IMPLEMENTING COMMAND E-MAIL.//

POC/CARLENE [REDACTED]/CAPT, N6B/UNIT:COMPACFLT/NAME:PEARL HARBOR HI

/TEL:COM 808-471-[REDACTED]/TEL:DSN 315-471-[REDACTED]

/EMAIL:CARLENE.D.[REDACTED]@NAVY.MIL//

POC/DONALD [REDACTED]/N622/UNIT:COMPACFLT/NAME:PEARL HARBOR HI

/TEL:COM 808-474-[REDACTED]/TEL:DSN 315-474-[REDACTED]

/EMAIL:DONALD.F.[REDACTED]@NAVY.MIL//

GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. THIS IS AN UNNUMBERED ALCOMPAC P.

2. IAW REF A, NAVY WILL NO LONGER SUPPORT UNCLASSIFIED MESSAGING SYSTEMS AFTER 30 SEP 2010. NON-COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2) INFORMATION PREVIOUSLY PASSED VIA NAVAL MESSAGES WILL TRANSITION TO COMMAND E-MAIL, PORTAL SITES, WIKI/BLOGS AND OTHER AUTHORIZED WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES. REFS B AND C PROVIDED GUIDANCE FOR IMPLEMENTING COMMAND E-MAIL, AND DIRECTED THAT IT BE COMPLETED BY 30 SEP 2010. INSTRUCTIONS FOR REGISTERING FOR COMMAND E-MAIL ARE PROVIDED AT HTTPS://WWW.PORTAL.NAVY.MIL/OIX/DEFAULT.ASPX

3. (ACTION) ALL COMPACFLT COMMANDS RECEIVING NETWORK SERVICES FROM NMCI, IT-21 AND EXCEPTED LEGACY NETWORKS ARE DIRECTED TO COMMENCE COMMAND E-MAIL REGISTRATION IMMEDIATELY. ONE-NET COMMANDS ARE ON HOLD UNTIL REQUIRED ACTIVE DIRECTORY CHANGES ARE COMPLETED.

A. FOR NUMBERED FLEETS: REQUEST COMPLETE REGISTRATION NLT 27 AUG 2010, AND REPORT COMPLETION BY E-MAIL TO CPF POC MR. [REDACTED].

B. FOR TYCOMS: REQUEST TASK SUBORDINATE COMMANDS RECEIVING NETWORK SERVICES FROM NMCI, IT-21, AND EXCEPTED LEGACY NETWORKS TO COMPLETE REGISTRATION AND REPORT COMPLETION/STATUS TO DESIGNATED COMMAND POC NLT 27 AUG 2010. SUBMIT RESULTS FOR YOUR COMMAND AND SUBORDINATES IN A SPREAD SHEET TO CPF ACTION OFFICER NLT 31 AUG 2010.//

BT

Interesting to wargame this when you are at sea and have lost all your satellite connectivity for a few months ... cyberwar and all ....