Improving Strategic Planning at the Department of Defense

Abstract

A new RAND project enhances the methods of portfolio analysis -- an approach to allocating resources across multiple objectives while managing risk. The enhancements are particularly applicable to decisions made regarding the development of military capabilities. The modified approach recognizes the need to test system alternatives against a range of scenarios, to supplement narrow military evaluation criteria with socioeconomic and political criteria, and to allow easy decisionmaker input to assumptions and weighting factors. The enhanced approach should be particularly helpful in high-level reviews seeking to integrate requirement-setting, technology assessments, and cost analyses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA576027

Entities

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Corporations
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Drills
  • Education
  • Health Care
  • Homeland Security
  • Infrastructure
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Military Capabilities
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Security
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Sets

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design