Modeling Defense Acquisition Strategy

Understanding Defense Acquisition Workforce Challenges

The Limits of Competition in Defense Acquisition

The rise of the neoliberal agenda founded on neoclassical economic assumptions over the past thirty years has had a profound influence on the framework used to develop and assess policy effectiveness across all arms of government including defence. As a result the evaluation methods within this framework have tended to been dominated by economic metrics. The weakness associated with using these...

Disease tolerance as a defense strategy.

The immune system protects from infections primarily by detecting and eliminating the invading pathogens; however, the host organism can also protect itself from infectious diseases by reducing the negative impact of infections on host fitness. This ability to tolerate a pathogen's presence is a distinct host defense strategy, which has been largely overlooked in animal and human studies. Intro...

Agent Modeling in Antiair Defense

This research addresses rational decision making and coordination among antiair units whose mission is to defend a specified territory from a number of attacking missiles. The automated units have to decide which missiles to attempt to intercept, given the characteristics of the threat, and given the other units’ anticipated actions, in their attempt to minimize the expected overall damages to ...

Modeling syntactic acquisition

Just like other scientific tools of investigation, modeling is something we use to answer certain kinds of questions. For syntactic acquisition, these questions tend to concern the process of acquisition that yields adult syntactic knowledge – that is, how exactly syntactic acquisition proceeds, using particular learning strategies (Pearl and Sprouse, 2015). In essence, an informative model of ...