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21 Aug 09

Stopping innovation evaporation

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Part of the solution might be to build an online unmanned air system user community. This has been done elsewhere with some success. In 2007, Dell launched the IdeaStorm Web site, which it described as “our way of building an online community that brings all of us closer to the creative side of technology by allowing you to share ideas and collaborate with one another.” This Web 2.0-based community quickly came alive with users helping users, just for the “psychic income” of sharing their knowledge. In my own firm, we’ve embraced this approach through a suite of Web 2.0 tools called Hello.bah.com, consisting of wikis, blogs, discussion forums and tag clouds serving user-defined communities.
Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, embraced the value of Web 2.0 in his former role as commander of Strategic Command. He sent a note to his noncommissioned officers, saying: “The metric is what the person has to contribute, not the person’s rank, age, or level of experience. If they have the answer, I want the answer. When I post a question on my blog, I expect the person with the answer to post back. I do not expect the person with the answer to run it through you, your [officer in charge], the branch chief, the exec, the Division Chief and then get the garbled answer back before he or she posts it for me.”
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- A Web 2.0-based UAS community, appropriately secured, would allow UAS teams to share ideas and best practices while also allowing the programs of record to test new ideas and, especially, to listen to what the community says. Such a community could also provide a “corporate memory” to ensure that mission-specific refinements could be reused and further refined by all when needed. And for policymakers, it would provide insight into the responsiveness of programs of record to real needs.
- It’s an exciting time to be working in robotics and unmanned systems. Ideas are free-flowing, and it’s still too early for a morass of “standards” to stifle creativity and innovation. The operational challenges that those “standards” are intended to tame are real and compelling, but there are equally real alternatives to traditional top-down policymaking to solve them — and actually benefit from them.
  I believe the leaders in this community will have the vision and courage to embrace these nontraditional approaches to accelerate the continued evolution of this powerful new capability.

27 Jul 09

Obsolete? Pilots Face a UAV Future

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Already, though, some are envisioning the end of the Air Force as we know it.

Peter Singer, director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, one of Washington's oldest and most respected think tanks, predicts a vast array of missions for unmanned craft, from stealth bombing to electronic warfare -- even dogfights.

"It's not just intelligence and bomber pilots who will be replaced with machines," said a recent article by Singer, a campaign adviser on defense policy to President Obama.

"Planning is proceeding on UCAVs, unmanned combat aerial vehicles, which will replace fighter jocks, too." Last manned fighter?

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is among those gazing into the future.
- Well there you have it. I've said again and again that Gates intends to gut the Air Force. Several people have thought I'm crazy. But this is the second major influence leading him in that direction: the promise of UAVs. The first is faith in the theory of fourth-generation warfare, or at least the assumption that nation-state-level warfare is obsolete. These are two very big and, at least where the latter is concerned, dubious assumptions. Are we certain enough in our ability to predict both the future of global conflict and technological development to consciously choose to give up our greatest military advantage, advantages no one else has but many desperately seek? Are we certain enough to give up one of, if not the biggest enabler of U.S. military superiority--i.e. the proven ability to dominate the air domain--in favor of gambling on a very new, largely unproven technology? - on 2009-07-27
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Already, though, some are envisioning the end of the Air Force as we know it.

Peter Singer, director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, one of Washington's oldest and most respected think tanks, predicts a vast array of missions for unmanned craft, from stealth bombing to electronic warfare -- even dogfights.

"It's not just intelligence and bomber pilots who will be replaced with machines," said a recent article by Singer, a campaign adviser on defense policy to President Obama.

"Planning is proceeding on UCAVs, unmanned combat aerial vehicles, which will replace fighter jocks, too."
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- Col. Eric Mathewson, head of the Air Force's unmanned aircraft task force at the Pentagon, said the service plans to examine all its missions to see which can be adapted for unmanned flight.
  
  He doesn't picture pilots going away completely -- at least, not anytime soon. But he can't predict what's ahead, he said, because UAV technology is still in its infancy.
  
  "You can't judge UAVs by what you see today. That would be like judging all aircraft by looking at the Wright Flyer," Mathewson said, referring to the first powered plane, built by the Wright brothers in 1903.
  - True. UAVs will likely become more capable. But in 1903, you also would not have wanted to sh*t can proven, still very effective technologies (like, say, artillery) based on the theory/promise that aircraft would eventually make those technologies obsolete. But that's what we're doing today: Betting that an infant technology will grow up rapidly, we're consciously giving up our advantage in current systems that we've already spent billions of dollars to develop. - on 2009-07-27
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21 Feb 07

Killerbee UAV Flies At Camp Pendleton

Here we see the merging of UAVs with communications networks.

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Network-Centric Warfare TransTracker Info Sharing UAVs

Validating a tactical KB UAS can be used to enable over-the-horizon communications connectivity between troops on the move and their commanders within in a multiple network environment.

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