Return on Investment Analysis of Information Warfare Systems

Abstract

The United States Navy's Cryptologic Carry-On Program Office manages a portfolio of Information Warfare (IW) systems. This research and case study demonstrate how the Knowledge Value Added (KVA) Methodology can be used to formulate a framework for extracting and analyzing performance parameters and measures of effectiveness for each system. KVA measures the effectiveness and efficiency of CCOP systems and the impact they have on the Intelligence Collection Process (ICP) on board U.S. Navy Ships. By analyzing the outputs of the subprocesses involved in the ICP in common units of change, a price per unit of output can be generated to allocate both cost and revenue at the subprocess level. With this level of financial detail, a return on investment (ROI) analysis can be conducted for each process, or asset.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA439595

Entities

People

  • Cesar G. Rios Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Case Studies
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Surveillance And Reconnaissance
  • Investments
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Surveillance
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States
  • Warfare

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  • Economics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
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