Partnership will be an enduring reality in the globally integrated setting the force will operate in. A Mission Partner Environment (MPE) will offset the often-damaging excessive exclusiveness of using only the Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) for warfighting, an operational framework that stymies combined efforts in the battlespace. The MPE paradigm proposes a mission network based on common standards, operational concepts, and tactics, techniques, and procedures among nations, commanders, and components for operations and warfighting, with information-sharing flowing naturally from effective command and control. MPE will contribute to the Chairman's vision of a globally integrated force that can arrive at the crisis scene with an MPE mindset enabling seamless work with allied, coalition, interagency, and intergovernmental partners