Rapid Prototyping: Leapfrogging into Military Utility

Abstract

Asymmetric threat has a very short timeline for change: 1. COTS timeline available to threats; 2. WWW used by threat; 3. DoD Acquisition has relatively long timeline; 4. Limited access to COTS; 5. Budget process is multi-year; 6. Complex systems stress definition of requirements/architecture; 7. Requirement trade-offs delay system; 8. Only as fast as slowest element; Force Protection (e.g., IEDs); Homeland Defense concerns Faster evolution of traditional threats.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 16, 2008
Accession Number
ADA517370

Entities

People

  • Randy Walden

Organizations

  • Air Force Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Airports
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Defense Systems
  • Detectors
  • Homeland Defense
  • Office Buildings
  • Open System Architecture
  • Product Prototyping
  • Prototypes
  • Software Prototyping
  • Threat Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Economics
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Software Engineering.