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chapter presents an introduction to this book and its later chapters, together with an insight into some of the impediments that often stand in the way of innovative technology realizing its potential in terms of transition to defence capability or insertion into force. It offers some broad commentary and discusses a number of alternative approaches.
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Finn, A. (2010). On the Transition of Innovation and Technology in Defence. In: Finn, A., Jain, L.C. (eds) Innovations in Defence Support Systems – 1. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14084-6_1
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