Operational Research in the Royal Air Force During World War II and How it Can Be Applied to Big Data in Future War

Abstract

Big data grows daily, leaving an increasingly larger digital thumb print. Billions of hours and terabytes of information is left unexploited, with even more millions being generated in near-real to real time. A study of the RAF's use of OR at Bomber Command in WWII examines use of the scientific method applied to assess failures and successes of targeting operations. Swapping the WWII battlefield for the vast, ever growing irregular battlefield of big data, an initial concept was designed using a MUM-T approach to the find and fix portions of the targeting process. DoD must develop current capabilities to address implications for future war as opposed to only funding new capabilities addressing what we think war will look like.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 02, 2017
Accession Number
AD1176434

Entities

People

  • Rachell H. Baca

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Denial System
  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Big Data
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Force Protection
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Military Organizations
  • Mobile Phones
  • Operations Research
  • Personnel Management
  • Second World War
  • Social Media
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Urban Areas
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.