| Technical Risk Assessment: A Practitioner's Guide |
FEB 2007 |
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| Authors:
John O'Neill; Nitin Thakur; Al Duus; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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 | DSTO's formal process of preparing Technical Risk Assessments (TRA) for Projects has been in operation for several years. A recent review of TRAs conducted by Studies Guidance Group revealed the high value-add from DSTO TRAs is in identifying integration risks, and also showed some weaknesses in identifying and assessing System Readiness Levels and identifying technical risks. This paper supplements DSTO s existing TRA guidance by: 1) focusing on how to ... |
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| Changes in DSTO Support to Projects Arising From the 6th July 2006 DCIC Decision: Updated Guidance for Project S&T Plans |
FEB 2007 |
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| Authors:
John O'Neill; Alan Duus; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| The 6th July 2006 DCIC made significant changes to the way DSTO support to Projects are funded. This document outlines the changes, the revised roles and responsibilities of Project S&T Advisors, Chiefs of Division including the Lead Chief for a particular Project, the Integrated Project Office, SA-CD, and Studies Guidance Group. The Project S&T Plan will now need to articulate a fully costed set of activities for S&T support to ... |
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| The Generation of Situational Awareness within Autonomous Systems - A Near to Mid term Study - Analysis |
JUL 2006 |
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| Authors:
Patrick C. Hew; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| This study aims to clarify and capture the nature of electronic situational awareness and its interface with electro/mechanical systems. It argues that autonomous situation awareness is about the sufficiency of awareness for autonomy in the situation at hand. The approach is calibrated through historical case studies, and the study then considers the potential from near to mid term technology. |
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| The Generation of Situational Awareness within Autonomous Systems - A Near to Mid term Study - Analysis |
JUL 2006 |
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| Authors:
Patrick C. Hew; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| This study aims to clarify and capture the nature of electronic situational awareness and its interface with electro/mechanical systems. It argues that "autonomous situation awareness" is about the sufficiency of awareness for autonomy in the situation at hand. The approach is calibrated through historical case studies, and the study then considers the potential from near to mid term technology. |
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| Verification and Validation of the Fractal Attrition Equation |
JAN 2006 |
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| Authors:
Nigel Perry; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| Under the auspices of The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) Joint Systems & Analysis (JSA) Technical Panel 3 (Joint Concepts and Analysis) research program, researchers in New Zealand and the United Kingdom have been collaborating on the development of a new combat attrition equation. This report examines this new approach, its relationships to existing systems of Lanchester equations and its prospects for further development. |
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| Queueing Theory With Reneging |
SEP 2005 |
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| Authors:
S. Bocquet; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| The literature on queueing with reneging is reviewed. Only random (Poisson) arrivals and unlimited capacity queues are considered, although some of the references also contain results for other arrival distributions or finite capacity queues. The paper focuses on the probability of service under steady state conditions; results for other metrics such as the expected waiting time may be found in the references. Analytic results, suitable for implementation in a spreadsheet ... |
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| Toward a Methodology for Evaluating the Impact of Technologies on Infantry Situation Awareness |
OCT 2004 |
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| Authors:
Madeleine C. Guille; Han T. French; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| One of the key force modernisation initiatives for infantry operations is to enhance situation awareness (SA) capabilities. The design and acquisition of technologies that optimise the performance of the combat soldier must therefore be guided by the goal of enhancing and maintaining SA. Determining the value of these technologies requires a means of objectively evaluating a combat soldier's SA. In this study, the impact of Intra-Section Radios, which form part ... |
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| Scenario-based Analysis: Scheduling Activities for the Patrol Boat Force |
01 OCT 2003 |
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| Authors:
DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| The objectives of these briefing charts were to discuss the understanding and the implications of the current government guidance for new patrol boat fleet and find better ways to manage the new fleet. Various methods and statistics are presented. Statistics shown are mission scenarios, boat deployment, crew deployment, crew stand-down and key conclusions are presented. |
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| Systems Engineering, Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, the Semantic Web and Operations Research |
01 OCT 2003 |
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| Authors:
Rod Staker; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| Scheduling Activities for the Patrol Boat Force |
01 OCT 2003 |
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| Authors:
Ping Cao; Greg Searle; Mark Horn; Houyuan Jiang; Phil Kilby; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| Force Expansion Curves a Way to Model Future Capability |
01 OCT 2003 |
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| Authors:
James Ong; Andrew Nicholls; David Cox; Richard Bartholomeusz; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| Structuring, Organising and Running Meetings to Distil the Best Advice from Subject Matter Experts |
SEP 2003 |
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| Authors:
Terry Moon; Les Vencel; Leoni Warne; Irena Ali; Derek Bopping; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| The Defence Capability Plan (DCP) provides detailed, costed planning for development of Australia's military capabilities for 10 years into the future. It is reviewed annually to take account of changing strategic circumstances, new technologies, and changing priorities. Also included in the development of the DCP are through-life-costing estimates for new investments. To facilitate its analysis, Defence Capability has been partitioned into six broad capability groupings, called Domains, each with specific ... |
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| The Role of Operations Research and Analysis in Concept-led Long-Range Planning |
FEB 2003 |
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| Authors:
Tony Brown; Tony Hibberd; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) DEFENCE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DIV
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| Head Policy, Guidance and Analysis (HPGA) seeks to develop a strategic planning framework to better support Defence decisionmaking. This paper was written in response to HPGA's request for advice on the potential role of Operations Research (OR) and analysis in such a framework. A broad interpretation of OR is proposed that includes qualitative analysis of problems that are not amenable to the quantitative methods with which OR is more traditionally ... |
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