One of the most frequent platitudes given by senior commanders to their subordinates is that “people are our most valuable asset.” While this very well may be true in the abstract, the U.S. Defense ...

If the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us one thing, it is how little we really know about how the human immune system works. Despite the remarkable success in development of vaccines to prevent severe ...

Human spaceflight is a challenging domain that requires a broad set of expertise to operate successfully and safely. Although we have over 60 years of spaceflight experience, the number of people who ...

The Human and Sociotechnical Systems Research (HSSR) Program at NSI advances the scientific study and engineering of people interacting with technology. We design and evaluate systems that are ...

The Board on Human-Systems Integration (BOHSI) brings together experts to improve understanding of how people and organizational systems interact with technology. It identifies critical issues in ...

Autonomous weapons systems present numerous risks to humanity, most of which infringe on fundamental obligations and principles of international human rights law. Such systems select and engage ...

References by Pentagon officials, the think tank world, and various world leaders to autonomous weapon systems often cite a U.S. military policy requirement that doesn’t even exist. Published in 2012 ...

NAE Perspectives offer practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders a platform to comment on developments and issues relating to engineering. Ben Shneiderman (NAE) is a distinguished university ...