Bits, Bangs, or Bucks? The Coming Information Crisis

Abstract

There is a crisis approaching for military OR, centered on the role of information on the battlefield. It is clear to military professionals that information is becoming increasingly important, but unfortunately the OR profession's ability to measure its contribution is still primitive. We are not good at deciding whether information is cost/effective or whether information is more important than firepower, and yet precisely these questions will be asked more and more frequently as budgets shrink.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA487446

Entities

People

  • Alan R. Washburn

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Game Theory
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • Linear Programming
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Military Operations
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Systems Analysis and Design