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The First Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and early 20th centuries was marked by a transition from production by hand to machine production through the use of steam or water power. The Second Industrial Revolution from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries built upon the progress generated by the increased use of electricity as well as the railroad and telegraph networks that allowed people and concepts to move quickly. The Third Industrial Revolution of the late 20th century was a shift from mechanical and analogue electronics to digital electronics and was characterized by sweeping changes resulting from digital computing and digital communication technologies. During WWI and WWII, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) was a leader in technological innovation and use. Famously, a program in the Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) paved the way for the modern internet, which has dramatically transformed society.

Throughout the digital revolution, the DoD has moved from being a technological leader during WWII to a slower adopter of digital and computational technologies today. Defense programs that currently utilize digital acquisition and engineering approaches often have to extract technical and programmatic information from their modeling environments to “print out” deliverables in paper form, given the current constraints in the acquisition system.

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