Military officer attitudes toward UAV adoption: exploring institutional impediments to innovation

The projected inventory of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to increase from 250 in late 2005 to over 1,400 by 2015 with more than 1,000 mini-UAVs and an undetermined number of even smaller micro- UAVs projected to enter service during the same period. Perhaps institutionally based opposi...

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Published inJoint Force Quarterly : JFQ Vol. 3rd Quarter; no. 46; pp. 96 - 103
Main Authors Fitzsimonds, James R, Mahnken, Thomas G
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington National Defense University 01.07.2007
Subjects
Aerial operations
Airplanes, Pilotless
Armed forces
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Drone aircraft
Evaluation
Military leaders
Military policy
Military strategy
Officers, Military and naval
Properties
Social aspects
United States
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Summary:The projected inventory of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to increase from 250 in late 2005 to over 1,400 by 2015 with more than 1,000 mini-UAVs and an undetermined number of even smaller micro- UAVs projected to enter service during the same period. Perhaps institutionally based opposition will emerge when major organizational and professional changes wrought by growing numbers of unmanned systems actually begin to impact the Services, and a retrospective analysis of the transition from manned to unmanned flight will help to determine whether institutional factors actually played any role in impeding technological innovation. Tables, Figures. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:1070-0692
1559-6702