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The Command System Organisation is seen as providing a major part of a formal, structured approach to the specification, design, and through-life management of ship-borne naval Command Systems. The other parts of this approach are the specification of the generic (N)-subsystems, and of the development of the associated information management system; both of which are being developed in parallel with the Command System Organisation. The major advantages claimed for the Command System Organisation are the ability which it provides of specifying system boundaries and interfaces in an unambiguous manner; its potential aid in ranking performance requirements, including that of the men; and its compatibility with the naval users' concepts of the organisation of naval Command and Control. The former two are seen as essential to the task to managing the procurement and use of increasingly complex equipments; and the latter as being necessary to aid the user in specifying and using future Command Systems. The suitability of the Command System Organisation for expression in a formal, machine-compatible representation was seen as being essential from the start of the study; as past experience had shown the effective impossibility of maintaining effective control of specifications and designs couched in informal formats.