Accession Number:

AD1160092

Title:

Organizing for Innovation: Does AFWERX Answer DoD's Call?

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Monograph]

Corporate Author:

School of Advanced Military Studies

Personal Author(s):

• Polsinelli, Angela M.

Report Date:

2020-05-21

Pagination or Media Count:

52

Abstract:

The 2018 National Defense Strategy directs the DoD to organize for innovation in order to maintain a competitive advantage in todays strategic environment. Utilizing organization design theory and historical case studies, this monograph develops a hypothesis that identifies a structural design allowing large, competitive organizations to adopt disruptive technological innovation and the factors that enable the designs success. Through these lenses, the monograph will then evaluate the suitability of AFWERX as a response to the DoDs mandate. Ultimately, the author concludes that because the DoD leverages an ambidextrous design enabled by insulation from bureaucratic processes, senior-level support, clear vision, and a deliberate technology transfer strategy, the creation of AFWERX is an apt organizational adaptation to a changing strategic landscape.

Descriptors:

• unmanned aerial vehicles
• military research
• organizational structure
• human behavior
• aircrafts
• department of defense
• disruptive technology
• national security
• fighter aircraft
• law
• artificial intelligence
• warfare
• warning systems
• defense systems
• environment
• intellectual property
• radar

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]