NEWS FROM SOFIC: Psychological Ops Forces Seeking Transformative Technologies
5/22/2019
By Mandy Mayfield
TAMPA, Fla. — Special Operations Command’s military information support operations — better known as psychological operations — component will soon be receiving its own technology development program, a SOCOM official said May 21.
Specialists in psychological operations are called upon to help combatant commanders shape battlefields by influencing populations or individuals.
The MISO specialists “do a whole lot more than just creating and disseminating the message,†Joanne Johnson, program manager for MISO systems said during the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida, which is hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association. “They have to research their target audience, plan their mission, understand their target audience, execute the mission [and] evaluate how successful that mission was.â€
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