"Resilience arises from a rich structure of many feedback loops that can work in different ways to restore a system even after a large perturbation. A single balancing loop brings a system stock back to its desired state. Resilience is provided by several such loops, operating through different mechanisms, at different time scales, and with redundancy – one kicking in if another one fails.”
I wonder if we are fostering resilience where it is needed most: military systems. I wonder if putting all our eggs into the F-35 basket provides resilience? How about GPS technologies, the CVN-78 aircraft carrier, the LCS, and so forth? Do we have several operating mechanisms providing feedback loops, or are we looking for the single best platform to fulfill as many missions as possible?
If resilience is achieved through redundancy, and if resilience is a good thing, then an acquisition process built on 19th century ideas of straight-line bureaucracies with zero duplication or overlap may be suboptimal.
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