{"id":5662,"date":"2019-04-04T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T04:12:36","slug":"prototype-warfare-in-the-fourth-industrial-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/prototype-warfare-in-the-fourth-industrial-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototype warfare in the fourth industrial age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new industrial process is rapidly emerging.\u00a0 This fourth industrial revolution (4IR) based on hyper-connectivity brings with it both continual \u2013 indeed relentless \u2013 innovation and the possibility of practical large-scale <a href=\"http:\/\/airpower.airforce.gov.au\/APDC\/media\/PDF-Files\/Contemporary%20AirPower\/AP36-Prototype-Warfare-and-the-Fourth-Industrial-Age-Peter-Layton.pdf\">prototype warfare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The interweaving of the second and third industrial revolutions is creating the fourth. This new deep integration allows a continuous and cyclical flow of information and actions between the physical and digital worlds. Many organizations already have some physical-to-digital and digital-to-digital processes but it\u2019s closing the loop from digital back to physical and then quickly acting upon analysed data and information that marks the big technical advance. This change can move warfighters to the centre of the defence industrial production process.<\/p>\n<p>Warfighters could now directly design one-of-a-kind items on the internet, pass this to the manufacturing plant, negotiate schedules, be part of the testing regime and arrange delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/art\/prototype-warfare-fourth-industrial-age\">Prototype warfare in the fourth industrial age<\/a>&#8221; published in the Small Wars Journal, written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| A new industrial process is rapidly emerging.\u00a0 This fourth industrial revolution (4IR) based on hyper-connectivity brings with it both continual \u2013 indeed relentless \u2013 innovation and the possibility of practical large-scale prototype warfare. 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