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This report discusses a strategy for an Army center for conducting network science, technology, and experimentation supportive of all of the military services and joint operations. The report examines, evaluates, and recommends appropriate operating models and infrastructure for an Army network science, technology, and experimentation center (NSTEC)
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The Committee on Strategies for Network Science, Technology, and Experimentation was asked to compare these needs with the current Army organization capacity for undertaking S&T, to assess the spectrum of practical options available to pursue long-term goals, and to recommend an optimized collaborative approach for Army research, technology, and experimentation that would enable solutions for important real-world problems for the Army involving networks and network operations. The study addresses the functions that a world-class center for network science, technology, and experimentation must perform.
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Monmouth, New Jersey, to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, were deemed a prime opportunity to facilitate establishment of a world-class organization for NSTE that the committee believes is urgently needed to confront the challenges of NCW. In brief, the report provides answers to the following questions: • What network science, technology, and experimentation is needed by the Army?
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Without a plan to combine and unify NSTE activities, the Army will merely relocate and reconstruct CERDEC at APG in its present form and fail to capitalize on the synergies possible with network science research. Options for physical realization of an Army NSTEC range from a centralized facility in a single location to an organization using networked connectivity that is fully distributed in multiple locations.
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For this reason, a director for all NSTE activities should be assigned immediately to assist with planning and establishment of the recommended NSTEC organization with a UARC/FFRDC core. Figure S-1 illustrates the committee's recommendation for how the new organization should be formed.
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on the priorities shown in Table S-1 and develop and fund a plan that: • Continues the current Army focus on information networks, expanding these activities to address basic understanding and predictability of those networks; • Provides the theoretical and scientific foundations for all network science research and applications; • Significantly increases funding and efforts in human performance in net works and adversary understanding; and • Invests in other disciplines, such as sociology, behavioral biology, and neural science, to ensure that the Army continually advances its under standing of network science. Recommendation 1b: The Army should immediately increase funding in the critical areas of: • Predictability of network performance, • Human performance in networks, and • Adversary understanding.
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networks function and determine their applications to military networks; • anage activities in network science research, technology development, M and experimentation for the Army; • ocus science and technology (S&T) investments to enable network F centric operations and warfare; • ocus applied S&T to enable social networks important to Army opera F tions; and • nable development of network science applications and facilitate their E transition to Army and joint operations.
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Conclusion 3b: The magnitude and diversity of the required infrastructure suggest a phased implementation approach to establish an Army NSTEC. A plan to develop NSTE capabilities and infrastructure could be phased over multiple years, beginning with the reorganization of existing and relocated facilities and ending with the establishment of a world-class center for network science, technology, and experimentation.
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This action will ensure that the large number of CERDEC engineers does not overwhelm research and development efforts in human performance and adversary understanding.
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