Military utility : A proposed concept to support decision-making

TLDR: In this article, a concept called Military Utility is proposed for the study of the use of technology in military operations, which is derived through conceptual analysis and is based on related concepts used in social sciences, the military domain and Systems Engineering.

About: This article is published in Technology in Society.The article was published on 2015-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Concept of operations & Technical performance measure.

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Table 2 presents the resulting evaluation of the two final competing tenders for the new Swedish AWV. The compound figure of merit for the two concepts, calculated using the evaluation model enclosed in the RFQ, is presented on the bottom line. [33]

Table 1 presents the evaluation parameters, with weights on the top indicator level, in the evaluation model for tenders in the procurement of new armored wheeled vehicles for the Swedish army [32, Pt. E].

Fig. 1 The resulting Military Utility concept modeled in a Goertz-diagram

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A concept called Military Utility is proposed for the study of the use of technology in military operations. The suggested concept is expected to contribute to the development of the science of Military-Technology and to be found useful to actors related to defense. 

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Future research is needed to further validate the concept. This will be done addressing relevant decision situations and fitting frameworks of indicators and methods to specific problems and applications.