JUSTAS for all? Innovation and UAVs in the Canadian forces

Abstract

Canada owns and uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), but its military services have acquired and integrated them into their force structure and operations with different degrees of ease. Service differences are explained with a three variable innovation adoption framework that integrates cost, impetus, and disruptive nature. The Army and Navy framed UAVs as relatively inexpensive adaptive innovation that would help avoid operational failures. The Air Force framed UAVs as expensive disruptive innovation that could improve performance of core functions but experienced UAVs as inexpensive adaptive innovations that helped avoid operational failure; yet these successes were perceived as inadequate. Analyzing services captures processes that national studies miss.

O uso de Veículos Aéreos Não Tripulados (VANTs) nas operações de paz da ONU

“…A falta de uma delas indicaria uma evolução, ao invés de 'revolução'. Além disso, a literatura sobre inovação militar apresenta que a extensão da incorporação de novas tecnologias nas organizações depende: dos custos financeiros da inovação; do ímpeto pela inovação; e do grau da mudança (Rosen 1991;Farrell, Rynning e Terriff 2013; Schaub Jr 2015). Dessa forma, utilizaremos os elementos doutrina, organização, custos, domínio da informação, comando e controle, simulação e treinamento, e agilidade/ímpeto para nortear as discussões sobre o emprego de VANTs.…”