How to come to military platforms that are capable to perform the anticipated tasks and missions

A programme has been performed in the Netherlands to realise a framework to support the armed forces during the procurement of (land based) platforms. The aim is to procure platforms that are capable to perform the anticipated tasks and missions. The support comprises two aspects: formulation of operational requirements and judgement of the performance of alternatives. Several performance measures are assigned, amongst which mobility and survivability. It is felt that in particular the balance between these two parameters is of paramount importance. The paper describes the results of the programme, being a comprehensive description of the approach and two tools supporting the process. The first tool is a prototype, a proof-of-principle. It helps the user to select relevant aspects related to the formulated defence capacity and uses these aspects to generate a system tree. The system tree is combined with tasks and relevant environments to come to operational requirements. The second tool is more mature, although further development in some areas could lead to significant improvements. It offers the user options to build a vehicle model and it shows the performance consequences and compares these to the requirements and constraints. It is foreseen that the second tool uncovers incompatibilities of formulated requirements, and can give directions to redoing part of the requirements generation process

ICT tools for improving the competitiveness of the LSE industry. Engineering construction and architectural management 1999

This paper describes an analysis of Product Data and Information Technologies (PDIT) which are available to support processes in Large Scale Engineering and construction especially. Three main areas were addressed: Supporting Environment, Systems & Technologies and Application Software. On-going and future developments in these areas are considered