DocumentConfirmed1 Jan 2012 00:00 UTC
Business Case Analysis of MAGIC UAV System
Naval Postgraduate School thesis · public PDF
Academic model of MAGIC as long-range ISR, not a named communications-relay payload. The $510m RDT&E figure in the thesis is an academic model, not an official acquisition estimate. Cited in the Daily Research share.
Held on Wikimedia Commons as IA_businesscaseanal109457369. Already used in this desk’s MAGIC record as a caution against treating modelled dollars as appropriated dollars. The ChatGPT share re-cited it; it is filed as its own document so Ask can retrieve the thesis rather than only the programme summary.
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