2025 Operational Analysis.

Abstract

In the summer of 1995 the Air Force chief of staff tasked Air University to do a year long study, 2025, to generate ideas and concepts on the capabilities the United States will require to possess the dominant air and space forces in the future, detail new or high leverage concepts for employing air and space power, and to detail technologies required to enable the capabilities envisioned. To support this goal a 2025 study team conducted an operational analysis to identify high value system concepts and their enabling technologies in a way that was objective, traceable, and robust. This analysis determined which of the 2025 system concepts show the greatest potential for enhancing future air and space capabilities and which embedded technologies have the highest leverage in making the high value system concepts a reality. The 2025 study produced a number of excellent system concepts for employing air and space power in the future. Analysis of the highest value system concepts indicated that the effort to occupy the high ground of the future will require air and space forces to possess increased awareness and to control the medium of space.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA327682

Entities

People

  • Brian L. Jones
  • Jack A. Jackson Jr.
  • Lee J. Lehmkuhl

Organizations

  • Air University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Materials
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • High Power Microwaves
  • National Security
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Situational Awareness
  • Space Objects
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space