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This week, we begin the Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) exercise. This evaluation methodology is used extensively in business and government. The purpose of our AoA is to evaluate a number of candidate cybersecurity-focused technology evaluation proposals for emerging technologies and/or emerging applications of technology. Each proposal includes two documents: (a) a technology selection recommendation paper and (b) a technology study plan. The AoA exercise has been broken into 3 parts which you will deliver incrementally over the next three weeks. These parts are: Technology Selection Paper: each student's Tech Selection paper is an alternative that will be considered and evaluated as part of the AoA. You will submit this paper twice, first as a draft in the Week 6 conference and then as a final paper submitted for grading via your assignment folder. Technology Down Select: Your draft Technology Selection paper will be posted in the Week 6 conference. The class will then vote as a whole as to which technologies should move forward as formal "alternatives" for the third and final part of this AoA exercise. At the completion of the Technology Down Select, your instructor will post the selected technologies in the Week 6 conference. Technology Evaluation Study Plan: using one of the selected technologies from Part 2, each student will design and submit a formal plan for a small scale evaluation study using one of the four approved design approaches (Case Study, Delphi Study, Pilot Implementation, Quasi-Experimental Study). These designs were introduced in the Week 2 conference.