"Significant efforts are ongoing within the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to improve national security and competitiveness by harnessing the growing power of information technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Product and process technologies are being researched, experimented with, and integrated into future warfighting concepts and plans. A significant part of this effort is focused on integrating operations, from the strategic to the tactical and across all lines of effort. A question that must be asked in considering these future warfighting concepts is: how will the devices that enable the knowledge-based future be powered? The abundant energy supplies that characterize peacetime operating environments may not be readily available at the far reaches of the force projections - the tactical edge - during conflict. Understanding the energy challenges associated with continued data collection, processing, storage, anal
ISBN: | 9780309670234 |
Publication date: | 28th June 2021 |
Author: | Engineering, and Medicine US National Academies of Sciences |
Publisher: | National Academies Press an imprint of The National Academies Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Series: | Consensus Study Report |
Genres: |
Weapons and equipment Energy industries and utilities |