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Appendix E Opportunities for Creating Value from Network Science
Pages 93-106

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From page 93...
... Projects that vestment would allow the Army to tap into top research might be funded in this environment are exemplified by three efforts in physical, social, and biological networks. The kinds of projects: one in social networks, one in engineered Army should fund only the most outstanding researchers networks, and one in biological networks.
From page 94...
... The comals who are organized into a national social network. mittee suggests that on the margin the most significant prob Such a program would be the first to address the needs of lem is not how to build better satellites, tanks, or medicines network science per se.
From page 95...
... Such research has important poten In spite of considerable effort in social network analysis tial Army applications, from defending the communication over the past 50 years and great interest in the past decade, infrastructure against viruses to developing scenarios for limsurprisingly little is known about either the detailed struc- iting the impact of a biological contagion. ture or the time evolution of social networks.
From page 96...
... The constraint and facilitation evolved on the Internet are e-mail, the World Wide Web of biological phenomena by network structure is an issue (www) , search engines, and the targeting and formatting of that is likely to be at the forefront of biology in the coming information to individuals.
From page 97...
... People flow partnership among the military, industry, and academia, the from one small group to another over time. The entire team new R&D model could leverage existing networks and colmakes up a social network consisting of smaller, more tightly laboration technologies to accelerate the development of coupled social networks.
From page 98...
... In addition to an Army coordinating council, group of Linux code approvers or eBay's inner circle of straother funding entities (such as other government agencies or tegic community managers. The Army must give serious private companies)
From page 99...
... relationships between the Army coordinating council, uni- The statement of task requests the committee to "identify versity centers of excellence, and industry consortia as de- specific research issues and theoretical, experimental, and scribed above. practical challenges to advance the field of network science." In summary, the next-generation R&D model outlined in Briefly stated, one such issue (and major challenge as well)
From page 100...
... combat effectiveness, and if it does, how. This proposal is The responsibilities of the university personnel would be for an exploration of decision making in an information-rich to explore the range of behaviors described by current modcombat environment via the design and conduct of field tests els and their extensions and to work with Army personnel to to assess how Army personnel might adapt their processes assess their applicability to unit decision making in an NCO for searching for information and for decision making to environment.
From page 101...
... The university and Current solutions to this problem involve either trying to Army partners will construct a validated model to assess if centralize all information (as, for example, in an air operaspecific items of information envisaged to be available in an tions center) or maintaining sparsely interconnected inforNCO environment can be used to create a decision-making mation sources (different military units maintain their own process that demonstrably improves combat effectiveness.
From page 102...
... enable rapid risk assessments when an infection appears at a given site. This biology project links with the social and engineering Biological Research: Field Biological Threat Assessment network sample projects presented above.
From page 103...
... These cases are so disturbing that a 1997 outbreak of one highly pathogenic strain (H5N1) in Hong Kong poultry that directly spread to 18 humans, 6 of whom died, caused the government to destroy within 3 days the entire poultry population of 1.5 million birds.
From page 104...
... Thus, in Scenario 3 the United strategic vision of NCO is to become a reality. Investment in States undertakes a focused national initiative, comparable in scope to the Manhattan Project, to design and deploy NCO capabilities as described in the conceptual framework docu ment version 2.0 for all the military services during the 6For further information, see http://www.oft.osd.mil/.
From page 105...
... The chances of delivering NCO capabilities in a mains, setting the interfaces between them, and monitoring timely and affordable way would be greatly increased by a successive waves of implementation to ensure consistency focused national initiative combining the initiatives of all and learning. This could be accomplished by a senior execu services under central leadership, to respond successfully to tive office that also managed the program itself.
From page 106...
... 2004. Network Centric Operations Conceptual Rogers, E.M.


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