Portfolio-Analysis Methods For Assessing Capability Options
by Davis, Paul K.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-03-10
Publisher(s): RAND Corporation
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Summary
An analytical framework and methodology for capability-area reviews is described, along with new tools to support capabilities analysis and strategic-level defense planning in the Defense Department and the Services. BCOT generates and screens preliminary options, and the Portfolio-Analysis Tool (PAT) is used to evaluate options that pass screening. The concepts are illustrated with applications to Global Strike and Ballistic Missile Defense. Recommendations are made for further defense-planning research.
Table of Contents
| Glossary of Terminology | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Background: The Capabilities-Development Process | p. 3 |
| A Framework and a Generic Terms of Reference | p. 17 |
| Tools to Enable the Framework | p. 35 |
| A Notional Example: Global Strike | p. 47 |
| A Second Example: Ballistic Missile Defense | p. 105 |
| Conclusions and Next Steps | p. 121 |
| Joint Capability Areas | p. 125 |
| Implications for Systems Engineering and Modeling and Simulation | p. 131 |
| RAND's Portfolio-Analysis Tools | p. 137 |
| Endnotes | p. 145 |
| Bibliography | p. 155 |
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