Defense Acquisition Research Journal Issue 95

FROM THE CHAIRMAN AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR Dr. Larrie D. Ferreiro

The theme for this issue is “Learning While Doing,” an appropriate premise given that now in the era of COVID-19, many of us are getting on-the-job training in how to effec tively work remotely from our teammates and organizations. The first article, “Technology Trust: System Information Impact on Autonomous Systems Adoption in High-Risk Applications” by

Michael G. Anderson and Johnathan C. Mun, addresses one of the more important issues in adopting autonomous systems in the military: how and when to deploy such technology, even as the sys tems become more capable. The use and adoption of an autonomous technology to replace people depends on both the system capabil ity to perform the task, and the trust (based on experience) that it will do so. The development of experience-based trust in autono mous systems is costly and carries a high risk of harm to operators. This article examines a methodology for technology discovery that reduces the need for experience-based trust and contributes to increased adoption of autonomous systems. The second article by Matthew R. Markman, Jonathan D. Ritschel, and Edward D. White, titled “Use of Factors in Development Estimates: Improving the Cost Analyst Toolkit,” reports on research that expands the currently available toolkit for cost ana lysts, through the development of cost factors in the Engineering

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