Abstract
Advanced defense technology plays a crucial role in safeguarding national safety and development interests. Aiming to handle the problems of current research and development (R&D) management approaches faced with the rocketing complexities of system of systems, the authors propose a novel roadmap modeling and assessment methodology through studying the driving forces of general technology development and analyzing realistic requirements of defense technology management in this article. First, a requirement decomposition framework is designed based on multi-view theories and text-mining tools are used to construct a multi-layer knowledge-flow network model. Second, the contribution rates of requirement elements at different levels are evaluated using a multi-criteria decision-making approach and the node importance is assessed based on the topological structure of multi-layer network. Third, it is utilized to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches that illustrative examples of the technology requirements in maritime security strategy investigating and a dual-layer knowledge-flow network consists of patents that belong to the “Coherent Light Generator (CLC)” classification from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database and the related academic papers from Web of Science. Finally, the contributions, potential applications, and drawbacks of this work are discussed and research outlooks are provided.
Highlights
The development of science and technology is a fundamental driving force for the evolution of civilization and social change
The research and development (R&D) management of defense technologies plays a critical role in both military force building and national security [2,3,4]
Technology roadmaps have been widely applied in different domains of R&D planning, providing flexible information exchange platforms for the stakeholders including researchers, engineers, product managers, suppliers, and consumers [5]
Summary
The development of science and technology is a fundamental driving force for the evolution of civilization and social change. The research and development (R&D) management of defense technologies plays a critical role in both military force building and national security [2,3,4]. There are three principle benefits/objectives that are infused in advanced defense technologies It will improve the tactical performance of weapon systems and reinforce. It will accelerate the structural reformation of command and control (C2) systems as well as the organization of combat units It will build and strengthen technology deterrence, which contributes to the discourse power in the negotiations of focal international security issues, such as arms control and conflict mediation.
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