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5 Technology as a Driver for Capability Transformation
5 Technology as a Driver for Capability Transformation
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Members of the f rst panel were Brad Parkinson, Stanford University, Christine Sloane, General Motors, and David Hardy, Air Force Research Laboratory. The second panel has as members Jacqueline Haynes, intelligent Automation, inc., Stanley Schneider, National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, and Christopher Stevens, NASA's New Millennium Program.
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. FIRST PANEL Brad Parkinson, Stanford University, began by discussing the Global Positioning System and its role as a transformer of capabilities, flu st for the military and then for the 'commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization, J7inal Report, January 2001.
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Technology insertion in the automotive industry must also take into account customer preferences at the point of purchase. Since the societal benefits of energy efficiency, such as reducing petroleum dependence or greenhouse emissions, may be 30
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Insertion of these technologies into the automobile industry marketplace will likely require market incentives to overcome customer hesitancy to adopt a new technology, infrastructure incentives to stimulate deployment of the new refueling system coincident with vehicle introduction, and the development of commercial codes and standards, none of which are required in the space industry. Sloane mentioned several obstacles to the successful completion of a long-term program to develop the hydrogen fuel cell automotive technology that the space exploration program may not face.
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The General Motors fuel cell vehicle Autonomy demonstrated one possible use of the design freedom offered by fuel cell power systems it had a skateboard chassis that had under it the entire power system and all the vehicle controls. David Hardy, Air Force Research Laboratory, provided a DOD perspective on the focusing questions and described the DOD Space Experiments Review Board.
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As for the other factors that must be present for technology to achieve transformation, Haynes observed breakthrough scientific achievements come from a combination of vision, motivation, and funding. She presented as an example a three-dimensional model of ballistic identification.
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Payload mass, volume, and data rate are reserved for new technologies that will be piggybacked for testing. In answering the focus question on the role of technology as an agent for organization and capability transforrnation, Schneider described a unique contracting arrangement whereby NPOESS contracts, primarily with Northrop Grumman Space Technology, under a "shared system program responsibility" model.
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Approximately $35 million of the annual budget for the NMP comes from the Earth Science Enterprise and $80 million, from the Space Science Enterprise. When discussing the relationship between ASTRA and NMP, Stevens noted that the technology validation proj cots nn the NMP program fit the ASTRA model nn the "applications pull" area.
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Stevens said that the program had been restructured to focus on technology. When asked how the NMP program had changed over the years, Stevens replied that the program emphasizes enabling future capabilities rather than allowing projects to morph into quasi-science missions.
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