WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY?
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Authors
Underwood, Nicholas S.
Subjects
technology strategy
arms-racing
offense-defense balance
innovation
character of conflict
doctrine
organization
technology
developmental
strategy
arms-racing
offense-defense balance
innovation
character of conflict
doctrine
organization
technology
developmental
strategy
Advisors
Arquilla, John J.
McCoy, Michael K.
Date of Issue
2022-06
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore and define the framework for a type of military development strategy that links technological decisions to strategic effects—technology strategy. This study is novel, as most approaches to technology strategy focus on producing technology as an end in itself instead of focusing on technology development and acquisition as the principal means for achieving strategic effects. By placing technology as the means and strategic effects as the ends, this study deduces an original, perhaps seminal, description of technology strategy and a framework for its formulation. Arms-racing case studies and an exploration of offense-defense theory structure this exploration and enable the observation of technology strategy’s core characteristics, which are its relationships to doctrinal innovation and organizational design, forms or templates, approaches to acquisition, and potential pitfalls. The structural components of the technology strategy concept illuminated are then arranged in a proposed taxonomy that fits within the U.S. military’s joint concept development process. Beyond the descriptive and structural components, this study also identifies notable best practices in the application of technology strategy, particularly those that an effective technology strategy should encompass—both the decisions surrounding which weapons, transportation, and information systems to invest in, and their implications, in practice, for organization and doctrine.
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Defense Analysis (DA)
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