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9 Future Considerations
Pages 90-95

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... Currently, AFOSR is organized into four directorates: Physics and Electronics, Aerospace and Materials Sciences, Chemistry and Life Sciences, and Mathematics and Space Sciences. The Mathematics and Space Sciences Directorate has a mix of programs that include topics such as dynamics and control, systems software and reliability, artificial intelligence, and information fusion.
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From page 91...
... Aside from attracting the best and brightest from universities, nonprofits, and industry, these tools also rotate program managers out of the agency and back to endeavors of their choice when their term is completed. AFOSR then has an opportunity to both staff the recommended growth in IS&T and maintain the vitality of the area by bringing in new program managers as replacements for those who are rotating out.
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From page 92...
... This network, while not a research effort, facilitates collaboration and coordination among technologists and operators in the development of experiments and supporting capabilities; it is used for carrying out technology demonstrations of new concepts in response to capability gaps. Because the specifications for team-focused, network-enabled systems are poorly defined both technically and operationally, there is a real need for joint experiments involving R&D staff and Air Force operations personnel working with early prototype systems.
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From page 93...
... . Support for the creation of freely available, sharable resources is likely to do more to move forward AI research in areas of interest to the Air Force than any other single action.
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From page 94...
... The advantage to researchers using PlanetLab is that they are able to experiment with new services under real-world conditions and at large scale. An arrangement offering capabilities would be of great value to the Air Force as it tries to develop a better understanding of the design, operation, and management of large, complex networks and sys tems and of the incorporation of such systems into Air Force opera tions.
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From page 95...
... The committee was encouraged by a presentation of the AFRL chief technologist, who described how a C2 wind tunnel could provide a computationally based experimentation framework for exploring new technologies and their operational utility. This is an area of great interest to senior Air Force leadership, which has requested a study in 2006 by the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board on rapid, affordable experimentation.
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Key Terms

  • information warfare
  • mission training
  • experimentation environment
  • space sciences
  • force scientific

  • sciences directorate
  • distributed mission
  • afrl directorates
  • computational economics
  • distributed research

  • air force
  • program managers
  • chief technologist
  • advisory board
  • scientific advisory


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