A Weapons Systems Development Decision Support System

Abstract

Defense budget cuts and the recent peace dividend have made weapons systems development decisions increasingly more difficult and subject to scrutiny. Meticulous planning is required to ensure tax dollars are spent wisely and effectively. This thesis presents a decision support system designed to aid a senior official in making such investment decisions. The system combines a graphical user interface embedded in a hypertext environment with a multiple attribute decision making method. Architectures, consisting of weapons systems development projects from each major program within a warfare area, which provide the best overall benefit versus cost are presented as solutions. The hypertext interface allows convenient access to benefit and cost data, and easily displays the solutions generated by the multiple attribute decision method.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA251791

Entities

People

  • Richard K. Boyd

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Investments
  • Management Information Systems
  • Mathematical Models
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.
  • Strategic Security Studies