Assessing military benefits of S & T investments in micro autonomous systems utilizing a Gedanken experiment / Albert Sciarretta [and four others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Sciarretta, Albert, author.

Contributor:

National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, issuing body.

Series:

Defense & technology papers ; no. 80.

Defense & technology papers ; no. 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state--Evaluation.

Science and state.

Military research--United States.

Military research.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 47 pages) : color illustrations.

Other Title:

Assessing military benefits of science and technology investments in micro autonomous systems utilizing a Gedanken experiment

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, 2011.

Summary:

In a Defense and Technology Paper (DTP) entitled "A methodology for assessing the military benefits of science and technology investments", the National Defense University (NDU) Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) presented a variety of approaches for deriving the return on investment -- in terms of warfighting capabilities -- for Army science and technology (S&T) efforts. As a follow-up to the methodology study that generated the DTP, the CTNSP wished to demonstrate parts of the methodology in the evaluation of an actual Army S&T effort. The Army Research Laboratory's (ARL's) Micro-Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA) program was chosen to demonstrate the utility of the methodology because it offers significant future capabilities for our Army, provides a set of very robust present-day technical challenges, and offers a significant assessment challenge since it is focused on basic research.

Contents:

Background

Conduct of the Gedanken experiment

Data collection

Findings

Summary and noted benefits.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on March 7, 2011).

"January 2011."

Series from web site.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Assessing military benefits of S & T investments in micro autonomous systems utilizing a Gedanken experiment

OCLC:

705922703