David Daniel

White paper / Government & policy

State Traffic Records Integration for National Safety Performance Management

US traffic fatalities fell to 39,254 in 2024, but the state data systems NHTSA depends on remain unintegrated — integration compliance stood at 13 percent in the last national baseline. This paper proposes a National Traffic Safety Data Fabric to link the six core records systems.

White paper / Industrial base

Managing Feedstocks for Additive Manufacturing in a Tactical Environment: Supply Chain Security, Material Selection, Storage, and Resupply Doctrine for Forward-Deployed AM Operations

Examines the feedstock problem created by expanding forward-deployed additive manufacturing: what materials are required, where they originate, how they degrade in tactical environments, and how they are stored and resupplied under contested logistics conditions.

White paper / Defence & security

Armor in the Drone Age: Integrating C-UAS Training Into Combined Arms Doctrine, Formation Design, and Crew Standards for the Armored Force

Assesses C-UAS training requirements across the Armored Force from crew to corps, and the gap between current training integration and the standard armored formations need to survive and fight in drone-saturated large-scale combat operations.

White paper / Defence & security

DOTMLPF-P Analysis: U.S. Military Combined Arms Countering Capabilities to Defeat UAS in the Modern Battlespace

A full DOTMLPF-P analysis of joint combined arms C-UAS capability, drawing on operational observations from Ukraine, current DoD programs of record, the December 2024 Counter-Unmanned Systems Strategy and the August 2025 establishment of JIATF 401.

White paper / Intelligence architecture

Sensor Fusion and the Common Operating Picture: The Intelligence Architecture Required for Effective C-UAS Integration Across Echelons

Assesses the intelligence architecture required for effective C-UAS integration across echelons: the sensor modalities, data transport, fusion, track management, and common C2 frameworks that transform discrete detection events into actionable, cross-domain kill chains.

White paper / Defence & security

VUCA and VUCA Prime in the Modern Battlespace: From Cold War Concept to Large-Scale Combat Application

Examines the origins, doctrinal history and current operational relevance of VUCA and VUCA Prime, applies both frameworks to the modern battlespace evidenced by Ukraine, the Middle East and multi-domain competition with China, and proposes an operationalized VUCA Prime response framework for LSCO commanders and staff.