RAND researchers developed a net technical assessment methodology for a given technology area designed to characterize the technical state of the art, measure relative national standing, and identify and assess technology applications....Daugiau...
The authors identify promising advanced training-technology investments and how the U.S. Department of the Air Force can track and integrate them using a quantitative modeling approach, stakeholder perspectives, and an expert panels analysis....Daugiau...
Edward Parker, Richard Silberglitt, Daniel Gonzales, Natalia Henriquez Sanchez, Justin W Lee, Lindsay Rand, Jon Schmid, Peter Dortmans, Christopher A Eusebi
This report presents an assessment of the quantum technology industrial bases of several U.S.-allied nations that are major players in the development of quantum technology, beginning with a global look and then focusing on the quantum industrial...Daugiau...
The objective of this report is to quantify and describe three types of scientific and technological flow between the U.S. and China to help assess the net effect of these types of flow on U.S. national security....Daugiau...
Edward Parker, Christopher A Eusebi, Daniel Gonzales, Ajay K Kochhar, Sydney Litterer, Kathryn O'Connor, Jon Schmid, Keller Scholl, Richard Silberglitt, Joan Chang...
Quantum technology could eventually deliver transformative new capabilities with significant economic and national security impacts. Only recently has research and development (R&D) expanded beyond basic science research (primarily conducted within...Daugiau...
Cortney Weinbaum, Jon Schmid, Caolionn O'Connell, Steven W Popper, M Scott Bond, Hannah Jane Byrne, Christian Curriden, Gregory Weider Fauerbach, Sale Lilly, Jared Mondschein...
In response to a requirement set in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, the authors examine the strengths and vulnerabilities of Chinas defense industrial base (DIB) by designing and applying a comparative analytic structur...Daugiau...
This report presents the findings of a review of two military standards that have enabled significant interoperability and evolution in warfighting to better understand paths toward successful interface standard design in the military enviro...Daugiau...
This report describes an approach developed to elicit from experts ideas for technology-based challenges that the U.S. Joint Force could confront in the year 2040, as well as results from employing this approach with internal RAND Corporation experts...Daugiau...
Mosaic Warfare envisions more fractionated, heterogeneous forces, dynamically composed on tactical timelines. In this report, the authors present insights from a policy game to assess alternative governance models for acquiring a Mosaic forc...Daugiau...
This report uses the inventions of Lemelson-MIT Prize winners as examples to illustrate the scientific, technological, economic, and social impacts that inventions can have on society. This report uses the invention...Daugiau...
The authors explore approaches for understanding, inventorying, and modeling cyber security implications of unmanned aerial systems (drones), and examine the threats and trends around them—specifically, current vulnerabilities and fut...Daugiau...
