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  • DoD Labs: Back to the Future

    Current challenges facing the DoD Lab enterprise require rethinking the lab business model to retain the best of the workforce and leverage the broader US R&D ecosystem.

  • Canada’s “Open Door” on 9/11: Adapting NORAD

    A retrospective analysis of NORAD’s response to 9/11 reveals its structural flexibility. Importantly, NORAD must engage with partners through identified processes to respond to continued continental and global uncertainties.

  • Hypersonics: Between Rhetoric and Reality

    The changes that the deployment of hypersonics and other more accessible missile technologies could introduce into the French national defense strategy must continue to be assessed in both their offensive and defensive dimensions, nuclear as well as conventional, and within all armed services.

  • Book Reviews

    Book reviews for the ASOR Fall 2022 Edition

  • Contested Agile Combat Employment: A Site-Selection Methodology

    Numerous factors complicate ACE site-selection decisions including peer-to-peer threats, complex geopolitics, and resource requirements. The proposed site-selection framework identifies existing airports best suited for strategic utilization to support combatant commands as they optimize agile

  • Forged at the Edge of Chaos: Emergent Function Weapons

    Emergent function weapons operate as complex adaptive systems whose battlefield functions manifest only from emergent behavior at scale. Accordingly, the military must establish a defense research program that leverages contemporary advances in behavioral robotics.

  • Air Mobility Intelligence: Survivability in the Contested Environment

    Instead of providing mobility-focused intelligence at tempo, the rapid global mobility intelligence architecture is more suited to a set-piece Cold War. Mobility intelligence must be better integrated into operational planning, led by an SIO who can operate across service and Joint boundaries.

  • Incentivizing Innovation: Promoting Technical Competency to Win Wars

    Most current Air Force efforts to add science and technology talent have been insufficient. Several key initiatives, grounded in behavioral economics, can incentivize innovation, reform institutional culture, and unleash the creativity and talent of the officer corps.

  • Antifragile Air Force: Building Talent for the High-End Fight

    The US Air Force’s approach to retention and pay creates an expensive force that undercompensates those performing many of its most critical skills. A two-pronged approach will modernize compensation based on quantifiable skillsets and change the regular Air Force’s retention-management