World Defense Research Articles

Analysis of Strategic Environment and Characteristics of the World's Defense Industry

Analysis of Strategic Environment and Characteristics of the World's Defense Industry

한국 방위산업 발전에 영향을 미치는 정책분야 ISA 특성에 관한 연구

The world's defense industry is actively entering the overseas export market based on advanced technology due to changes in the security environment and the global economic downturn. Although the defense industry in Korea is developing as a world-class defense exporter, in detail, it is insufficient to select and concentrate the core fields of export industrialization policy and future defense industry due to the long-term promotion of domestic defense base protection policy. In this regard, it is necessary to study the important factors for the development of the Korean defense industry from an academic perspective. In this study, we derived the areas, items, and detailed factors necessary for the development of the Korean defense industry through academic p recedent s tudies, and then surveyed the factors necessary for defense industry policy, defense r esearch a nd d evelopment a nd d efense e xport.In a ddition, t he i mportance and satisfaction of ISA characteristics on defense industry policy, defense research and development, and defense export were analyzed through the technical statistics process, and the results and analysis contents of ISA 4-minute were presented and synthesized.

Using Software - Assisted Systems Engineering on Large Satellite Development Contracts

Over the years, the world's defense industries have become quite proficient at developing large, complex hardware and software systems. In recent years, the ubiquitous deployment of personal computers has changed the way we work. Additionally, took designed to facilitate systems engineering have recently matured enough to start having a major impact on many major systems development efforts. Finally, the government's faster-better-cheaper acquisition philosophy has started driving prime contractors to a concurrent engineering approach toward systems engineering. This confluence of experts is has had unexpected impacts on both the flexibility and rigor of requirements management processes. While the maturing requirements and design took hold great promise in maintaining requirements traceability throughout the design process, the widespread use of desktop computing systems has inadvertently lulled many experienced systems engineers into sloppy processes because it now appears to be a simple matter to make a requirements change in a softcopy of a requirements document. Without strong process and management support, requirements changes inevitably start being derived in a broad spectrum of incompatible took and formats. This author is currently participating in the design phase of a major classified government satellite development effort. As an integral member of an extremely experienced requirements management team (boasting over 150 years of combined experience in the defense industry), this author has had the opportunity to watch the team navigate straight into many of the systems engineering potholes created when talented engineers implement concurrent engineering using a variety of tools without a consistent process framework. This paper, therefore, specifically addresses process and implementation challenges that arose when establishing a software-assisted concurrent-engineering approach on a large satellite development contract.

Hurting the one you love

In its day, Mills Brothers' popular version of Always Hurt One You Love was a million-record seller. Today, disc jockeys in Canada could probably bring it back to life by dedicating song to U.S. If anyone has hurt the one you shouldn't hurt at all, U.S. certainly has by applying 10% import surcharge indiscriminately to Canada and other innocent trading partners as well as to guilty. This is no knock against surcharge itself. Because of our mounting balance of trade deficit and our balance of payments dilemma, surcharge is necessary. Used wisely, it can be an effective bargaining tool to encourage our trading partners to revalue their currencies against dollar, to negotiate nontarifi barriers that discriminate against U.S. exports, and to shoulder a greater share of non-Communist world's defense costs. No doubt more is required than velvet tongue of diplomacy to move ...