Technological Leadership: Combining Research and Education for Advantage at Sea
By Vice Admiral Ann E. Rondeau, U.S. Navy (Retired)
February 2021
We stand at a critical inflection point. U.S. national security must contend with increasing great power competition (GPC), which is fundamentally an innovation race—one well contested by our near-peer rivals. While technological change is inevitable, the rapidly emerging integration of computational power with its human masters, the so-called Cognitive Age is poised to create unprecedented national security challenges, and at a pace measured in months and not years.
More than just a strategic shift to global hegemonic powers, naval forces must be prepared to compete in the cognitive and conventional arenas: to outthink, outmaneuver, and outfight. To prevail, we must quickly secure technology advantages, as well as the cognitive agility to employ them effectively. This is technological leadership.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/february/technological-leadership-combining-research-and-education
