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What Is the Return on Investment of Digital Engineering for Complex Systems Development Schedules? Findings From a Mixed‐Methods Case Study on the Post‐Production Design Change Processes of Navy Assets

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Complex engineered systems routinely face schedule and cost overruns, along with poor post‐deployment performance. Both INCOSE and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have championed Digital Engineering (DE) as a potential remedy, yet most of DE's purported benefits remain anecdotal, and its return on investment (ROI) remains poorly ...
Jannatul Shefa, Taylan G. Topcu
wiley   +1 more source

Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
wiley   +1 more source

A few-shot learning-based dual-input neural network for complex spectrogram recognition system with millimeter-wave radar

Complex & Intelligent Systems
Graph data-driven machine learning methods for human activity recognition (HAR) have achieved success recently using sufficient data. In the realm of everyday life, we encounter a notable challenge: the scarcity of labeled radar samples.
Kaiyu Chen, Shaoxi Wang, Wei Li, Yucheng Wang, Cunqian Feng, Yannian Zhou, Jian Cao, Binfeng Zong, Minming Gu   +8 more
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

Defence white paper 2016 [PDF]

, 2016
Executive Summary This Defence White Paper explains how the Government is investing in Australia’s defence capabilities to strengthen Australia’s security in the more complex strategic environment Australia will face in the years ahead.
Department of Defence (Australia)
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Modern weapons and military equipment for Issue 3/2014

Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 2014
Israel launches new spy satellite;Production standard AH-6i completed the first flight;Sikorsky took demonstration optionally unmanned helicopter based on the Black Hawk;The successful launch of the new Indian air-to-air missile Astra aircraft Su-30MKI ...
Mladen R. Tišma
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Beyond Manoeuvre Theory for European Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the debate about European defence in the light of the Russo‐Ukraine war and growing doubts about US commitment to Europe. It argues that Europeans need to fundamentally relearn the ability to imagine military strategy from a European viewpoint.
Lukas Mengelkamp, Sam Vincent
wiley   +1 more source

Missile defence and the transatlantic security relationship

, 2001
Ballistic missile defence has re-emerged since 1999 as a controversial issue on the transatlantic security agenda. The article examines this re-emergence. Three phases in the recent evolution of US missile defence policy from 1995-2001 are outlined.
Bowen, W Q; id_orcid
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The Unintended Consequences of German Deterrence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Germany's evolving deterrence posture boils down to continued participation in NATO nuclear sharing and an ambitious conventional rearmament program. Due to its non‐nuclear status and a result of decades of underinvestment, Germany prioritizes modern conventional weapons.
Ulrich Kühn
wiley   +1 more source