Net Technical Assessment: A Methodology for Assessing Military Technology Competition
Abstract
The Biden administrations 2022 National Security Strategy recognizes technology as a major front on which strategic competition is waged, observing that technology is central to today's geopolitical competition and to the future of our national security, economy and democracy. The centrality of technology to the conduct and outcome of strategic competition motivates an analytic task: the development of methodologies for assessing the state of play of technological competition. This report proposes one such methodology for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD): a net technical assessment (NTA), which, for a given technology area, is designed to characterize the technical state of the art, measure relative national standing, and identify and assess technology applications for accomplishing strategically important military objectives.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2024
- Accession Number
- AD1229048
Entities
People
- Chad J. Ohlandt
- Jon Schmid
- Shawn Cochran
Organizations
- RAND Corporation