Technical Assessment: Data-Enabled Technology Watch and Horizon Scanning

Abstract

For more than five decades, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been a world leader in science and technology (S and T); however, it currently faces a range of challenges to maintaining that leadership. Cutting-edge research and development (R and D) is increasingly dispersed internationally. It has also expanded beyond the domain of established universities and large, longstanding corporations, and DoD does not have the same depth of relationships with newer technology companies, start-ups, and even community laboratories where exciting breakthroughs are occurring today. Meanwhile, the raw number of participants, amount of technical information, and sources of relevant data are all growing rapidly, creating major challenges to finding relevant information. Thus, DoD has multiple challenges to staying informed of cutting-edge work and guiding its investments appropriately, all while the importance of doing so is increasing. Competitors are challenging DoDs technical advantage, and budget pressures are limiting DoDs ability to expand what it funds.(footnote 2)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1010211

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Business Administration
  • Community Of Practice
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disruptive Technology
  • Engineering
  • Investments
  • Knowledge Management
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Money
  • Organizational Structure
  • Technology Forecasting

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Systems Analysis and Design