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7 Creating Value from Network Science: Scope of the Opportunity
7 Creating Value from Network Science: Scope of the Opportunity
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advance network-centric warfare (NCW) capabilities and constructed three scenarios that represent fundamentally difCREATING ECONOMIC VALUE FROM RESEARCH ferent levels of investment.
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lites, tanks, or medicines, but rather how to organize millions In Appendix E the committee provides details for marketof individuals to collect intelligence, deliver supplies, and driven management of such projects. The next-generation prosecute wars over an increasingly global and constantly R&D model is a new and different approach similar to that shifting geographical and political playing field (Garstka and of networked organizations like eBay, Intel, and GE.
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Scenario 3, Creating a Robust Network-centric Warfare/ The statement of task requests the committee to "identify Operations Capability specific research issues and theoretical, experimental, and practical challenges to advance the field of network science." The statement of task instructs the committee to "recomBriefly stated, three such issues were discussed in Chap- mend those relevant research areas that the Army should inters 36: vest in to enable progress toward achieving Network-Cen tric Warfare capabilities." When the committee examined · Current military concepts of "net-centricity" are based the literature on this topic, it discovered that the concept of on applications of computer and information technol- NCW has been superseded in the literature from the DOD ogy that are far removed from likely results of basic Office of Force Transformation (OFT) by an expanded con research in network science.
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How the United States undertakes a focused national initiative, does the Army get both at the same time? Network research comparable in scope to the Manhattan Project, to design and suggests that small coherent groups associated with excepdeploy NCO capabilities as described in the conceptual tional talents can be collected into loosely coupled networks
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Perhaps more Army's network science portfolio should stress developimportant, the Army can explore new network approaches to ing basic knowledge that could enable applications of complex problems along the lines indicated above. This no- network thinking to address the social and cognitive tion is distinctly different from that of the centers of research domains.
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The results of basic research in network overlapping and interacting physical, information, cogscience are more likely to be rapidly put to use to meet nitive, and social networks envisioned for networkArmy challenges if the Army also devotes significant centric operations concepts are currently beyond the resources to related applied research. Army's capability.
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2002. The Real Options Solution: Finding Total Value in a High- Defense Basic Research.
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