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Culture and Context:

Technology push vs. needs pull

By Susan Miller
Published on March 21, 2006 - 03:52 AM

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DOD recently announced the projects selected for the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) and Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) for 2006. The ACTD program applies mature technologies to military problems, so that new tools and technologies can be rapidly rolled out to the warfighters.

According to the press release, the JCTD business model will eventually replace the ACTD model. While still emphasizing the speed of technology deployment, the JCTDs "focus more on tailoring projects to a combatant commander’s specifically identified needs— emphasizing needs pull over historical technology push."

Three of the six ACTD or "technology push" programs that were selected were:

Joint Enable Theater Access -- Provides Lightweight Modular Causeway System that enables rapid discharge of combat power and sustainment material at austere sea ports of debarkation.

Multi-service Advanced Sensors to Counter Obscured Targets -- Permits warfighters to rapidly find, locate, identify and report camouflage, concealment and deception threats through network centric-enabled collection, processing, and fusion of data from multiple sources.

Node Management And Deployable Depot - Implements a deployable end-to-end ("factory-to-foxhole") distribution system, including asset visibility using radio-frequency identification.


There were four JCTD or “needs pull” projects selected:

Counter Intelligence-Human Intelligence Advanced Modernization Program/Intelligence Operations Now -- Optimizes the reporting of critical intelligence-related data in a timely manner, while making data available for analysis by: standardizing data outputs, applying XML-tagging routines, providing geo-referencing and enabling Web services. Improves analysts’ link to intelligence collection across the tactical level and to the national level.

Comprehensive Maritime Awareness -- Improves maritime security by acquiring, integrating and exchanging relevant maritime activity information on regional threats and focuses limited interdiction and inspection assets on the most probable threats.

Joint Modular Intermodal Distribution System -- Provides a common intermodal container system with automated loading, handling, storage, tracking and surveillance technology.

Large Data -- Demonstrates a highly scalable, rapid and secure integrated capability to effectively retrieve, store and share massive amounts of information effectively between global users. Provides very large data storage, communications and security capability that are integrated and globally scaled.


It’s not as if you can really tell what these projects are about from these tiny descriptions, but the "needs pull" projects all seem to be about coaxing meaning out of huge disparate sets of data. Thoughts?

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