Increasing flexibility and agility at the National Reconnaissance Office : lessons from modular design, occupational surprise, and commercial research and development processes

• Author: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• VerfasserIn: Baiocchi, Dave; Langeland, Krista S.; Buerkle, Amelia; Fox, D. Steven; Walters, Jennifer
• TeilnehmendeR: Langeland, Krista S.; Buerkle, Amelia; Fox, D. Steven; Walters, Jennifer; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.); Rand Corporation
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : Rand Corporation, 2013
• Yayın Tarihi: 2013
• Dil: English
• Notlar: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

To help the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) become more flexible and agile in an increasingly uncertain world, RAND sought answers to two key questions. First, would the NRO benefit from building modular satellites? RAND researchers developed a method for evaluating whether a system is a goo...