Modularity: An Application of General Systems Theory to Military Force Development

Abstract

Although researchers in the fields of mathematics, psychology, biology, and social systems theory have long used the concept of modularity, none of these fields offered an explicit causal model of how and why increasingly modular forms are adopted. The authors apply constructs and models developed in the study of organizational modularity to explain the adoption of increasingly modular organizational designs in the U.S. military and offer some implications of this work for force development, future concept development and experimentation and acquisition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA441764

Entities

People

  • Christopher Paparone
  • Melissa A. Schilling

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Active Duty
  • Army Training
  • Combat Operations
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Defense Industry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Operations
  • Military Strategy
  • Procurement
  • Public Administration
  • Standards
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

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