We present some experiences obtained with the definition and preliminary design of a new generation command and control system for military applications. We will concentrate on the transfer of research results to development. During this phase, requirements have to be specified for the new system for which it is still hard to envision in detail the desired tasks that it should support. At the same time, the new technologies that are to enable these new capabilities are not known well enough to completely understand their possibilities. We will outline some approaches that, in our project, helped to be creative at the right time and specific and decisive when needed. These are storyboard, natural language and formal methods. We will indicate for each of them at what moment they can be best applied.
Finally, we indicate why any such approach used within a project does not guarantee widespread acceptance of its results by the remaining R&D population.
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