Assessing Military Benefits of S&T Investments in Micro Autonomous Systems Utilizing a Gedanken Experiment

Abstract

In a Defense and Technology Paper (DTP) entitled "A Methodology for Assessing the Military Benefits of Science and Technology Investments," the National Defense University (NDU) Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) presented a variety of approaches for deriving the return on investment--in terms of warfighting capabilities---for Army science and technology (S&T) efforts. As a follow-up to the methodology study that generated the DTP, the CTNSP wished to demonstrate parts of the methodology in the evaluation of an actual Army S&T effort. The Army Research Laboratory's (ARL's) Micro-Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) Collaborative Technology Alliance (CTA)2 program was chosen to demonstrate the utility of the methodology because it offers significant future capabilities for our Army, provides a set of very robust present-day technical challenges, and offers a significant assessment challenge since it is focused on basic research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA537422

Entities

People

  • Albert Sciarretta
  • Elizabeth Redden
  • Jordan Wilcox
  • Joseph Mait
  • Richard Chait

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Systems
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Demography
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Urban Areas
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Manufacturing Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy