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Strategic Investment in Open Hardware for National Security
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: Received: 14 March 2022 / Approved: 15 March 2022 / Online: 15 March 2022 (14:27:35 CET)
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Pearce, J.M. Strategic Investment in Open Hardware for National Security. Technologies 2022, 10, 53. Pearce, J.M. Strategic Investment in Open Hardware for National Security. Technologies 2022, 10, 53.
Abstract
Free and open source hardware (FOSH) development has been shown to increase innovation and reduce economic costs. This article reviews the opportunity to use FOSH like a sanction to undercut imports and exports from a target criminal country. A formal methodology is presented for selecting strategic national investments in FOSH development to improve both national security and global safety. In this methodology, first the target country that is threatening national security or safety is identified. Next, the top imports from the target country as well as potentially other importing countries (allies) are quantified. Hardware is identified that could undercut imports/exports from the target country. Finally, methods to support the FOSH development are enumerated to support production in a commons-based peer production strategy. To demonstrate how this theoretical method works in practice it is applied as a case study to the current criminal military aggressor nation, who is also a fossil fuel exporter. The results show there are numerous existing FOSH and opportunities to develop new FOSH for energy conservation and renewable energy to reduce fossil fuel energy demand. Widespread deployment would reduce the concomitant pollution, human health impacts, and environmental desecration as well as cut financing of military operations.
Keywords
energy policy; energy conservation; climate change; global safety; open hardware; open source; photovoltaic; renewable energy; solar energy; national security
Subject
Engineering, Energy and Fuel Technology
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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