Development Mode: Multiple Covert National Competitive Government Accelerated

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Development Mode: Multiple Covert National Competitive Government Accelerated

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This mode of development might occur earlier and faster than other modes, due to the long-range planning common in military oganizations, and easy access to major funding.

Goals

• Attain overwhelming advantage over competitors
• Maintain covert nature to avoid aiding competitors
• Initially achieve steady progress to justify funding of preliminary investigations
• Later race to beat competitors to key capabilities
• Explore military implications and develop/test new capabilities
• Suppress, delay or subsume open/academic/corporate efforts
• Spy to monitor competitors' progress, learn from their efforts

Implications

• Once started, competitive efforts in same nation impeded or absorbed

Projects

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The largest issue is likely to be development of an arms race, if there are at least two major competitors for international hegemony. If the world is still uni-polar (dominated by the United States), the largest issue might be friction between less powerful nations and the dominant nation.

A Manhattan project model has sometimes been suggested as the most natural approach. However, that model seems likely only in the instance that a major national competitor discovers that it is behind, and becomes convinced that this poses a danger to it.

Otherwise, development of basic capabilities will likely be done in multiple government-funded laboratories, to be followed by integration projects to merge those basic capabilities into functional MNT. The final stage might be letting of contracts to key corporations to expand the skill and knowledge to those corporations. At that point, the capability might become an open secret (i.e. the existence is widely rumored, consensus is formed that it is real but secret, and eventually the existence of the technology is acknowledged while the technology itself remains secret), and the technology might begin to move toward restricted use by corporations - first to produce military goods, later to produce certain approved civilian goods.

One unlikely issue under this model would be the "escape" of the technology. The goverment would be well aware of the power and dangers of the technology, and would respond by keeping a firm grip on it. If the technology should ever start to slip out - e.g. someone steals a prototype - the government would take extremely active measures to recover the technology.