This exploratory report provides an initial examination of how artificial intelligence and autonomous systems could affect deterrence and escalation in conventional crises and conflicts. What happens to deterrence and esc...Daugiau...
Defense planning faces significant uncertainties. This report applies robust decision making (RDM) to the munitions mix challenge, to demonstrate how RDM could help defense planners make plans more robust to a wide range of hard-to-predic...Daugiau...
This report by the National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) examines the impact of the U.S. governments fiscal challenges on the U.S. Navys surface ship maintenance and operations requirements....Daugiau...
Complex systems in nature are those with many interacting parts, all capable of influencing global system outcomes. There is a growing body of research that has modeled sport performance from a complexity sciences perspective, studying the behavio...Daugiau...
An introduction to formal logic, covering truth-functional connectives and first-order logic, symbolization, truth tables, and natural deduction....Daugiau...
Complex systems in nature are those with many interacting parts, all capable of influencing global system outcomes. There is a growing body of research that has modeled sport performance from a complexity sciences perspective, studying the behavio...Daugiau...
To reduce the costs of maintaining the Aegis system, and to take advantage of rapidly evolving commercial computing technology, the U.S. Navy is moving toward open-architecture software, a common source code library, and commercial,...Daugiau...
The U.S. Navy requires an agile and adaptable acquisition process that can field new information technology capabilities and services in relatively short and responsive time frames. A RAND study sought to identify ways to accelerate...Daugiau...
In the mid-2020s, the Royal Australian Navy plans to retire the oldest of its Collins-class submarines. Australia intends to acquire 12 new submarines to replace the Collins-class vessels. The Australian Department of Defence asked RAND to assess th...Daugiau...
