The defence firm of the future

This paper offers the personal view of a senior executive in the Defence Procurement Agency about the future requirements of the defence industry’s principal UK customer. The focus here is on trying to identify the type of corporate behaviour and range of skill sets that the UK Government will need from defence suppliers, both primes and supply chain companies in the future. The concluding message from this ‘Customer View’ is that there is likely to be a continuing market for the company that specializes in delivering defence capability. It will be a company that will be looking for a long‐term relationship, with a specialist knowledge of its various national customers and a willingness to work openly and closely with them. It will be agile in its ability to bring together diverse technologies, to package them as a system and to deliver them either as hardware or as a service. Such suppliers will also need to innovate and to adapt at least as rapidly as the threats that they seek to counter.     

Measuring defense conversion in Russian industry

This paper develops and implements a methodology for quantifying defense conversion in Russian manufacturing in the early 1990s. A two‐sector, three‐good model is employed to analyze the flows of resources from military to non‐military uses and applied to firm‐level survey data under alternative definitions of military production and the MIC. An aggregation framework is constructed to estimate the total quantity and change in Russian military production, the latter decomposed into intrafirm and intersectoral resource reallocation and overall industrial decline. Although there is evidence of substantial decline in military production, the data show little reallocation to productive civilian uses, neither within the MIC nor to other manufacturing sectors.     

Life cycle costs for decision support ‐ a study of the various life cycle costs used at different levels of defence policy and management∗

Debates on many aspects of defence economics ‐ on the scale of defence expenditure, on the allocation of that expenditure to various military capabilities, and on the selection of equipment offering the best value for money ‐ are bedevilled by misunderstandings and misconceptions about the costs of defence equipment. This paper seeks to improve understanding of defence equipment costs by defining a hierarchy of defence equipment within which the direct and indirect life cycle costs of defence equipment may be allocated at different levels. Having reviewed the direct and indirect components of the life cycle cost, this paper then shows how different costing studies for different purposes require different approaches to life cycle costing, and that there is no unique life cycle cost which can be assigned to one particular item of defence equipment. There is instead a range oflife cycle costs, each of which is appropriate for a particular study, and it is important that a quoted cost of an item of defence equipment should be used only in the pertinent circumstances. The paper is written from a UK perspective and accordingly uses British nomenclature, but its principles should be relevant to defence cost studies in other nations.     

基于复杂网络的装备保障力量体系构建研究

论文首先阐述了复杂网络的内涵及其特征参量,以此为基础,对装备保障力量体系进行规范化描述,提出了装备保障力量体系的构建算法,并进行了实例验证及灵敏度分析,对于信息化条件下装备保障力量体系转型建设具有一定的参考价值和指导意义．     

多捐赠者肾脏调换问题

用于器官移植的肾脏处于严重的短缺状态。为缓解这一问题,越来越多的国家开始实施各种形式的肾脏调换计划。肾脏调换问题一般被建模为一个合作博弈(KE)。其中的局中人为病人及与其配型失败的捐赠者所构成的二元组。现实中不乏拥有多个配型失败捐赠者的病人。定义了多捐赠者肾脏调换博弈(MDKE),分析了其可行解及稳定解的结构,证明了捐赠多颗肾脏无益于参与稳定调换,将TTC算法、KE稳定解的NP难解性以及最大覆盖稳定解的不可近似性拓展到MDKE。实验表明引入MDKE效果显著。     

谈国人视野中的中国崛起

随着中国的快速发展,中国正在崛起已成为国内外有目共睹的事实。一些西方学者把中国崛起看成是对世界和平与发展的"威胁",中国人民则根据中国崛起所带来的巨大变化,把中国崛起看成是对人类文明的重大贡献。对中华民族而言,中国崛起造福13亿中国人,使中国人民基本过上了幸福的小康生活;对全人类来说,中国崛起惠及全世界,推动了世界经济的发展乃至人类文明的进步。     

陶行知生活教育思想略论

近代著名教育家陶行知在深刻批判封建传统教育的基础上,创立“生活教育”理论,学习、研究陶行知的这一理论,对推动我国教育改革,建设有中国特色的社会主义教育体系,具有重大指导意义。     

复杂电磁环境对舰载导弹防空系统影响分析*

复杂电磁环境对舰载导弹防空系统影响的分析是海军战法研究的核心问题。运用信息战原理,在信息与火力联合作战能力分析平台上的初步试验表明:在复杂电磁环境下,信息因素可以使舰载导弹防空系统击毁入侵飞机数量的统计平均值下降553.96%,火力因素可以使统计平均值下降342.72%,信息与火力联合因素可以使统计平均值下降274.80%,整个舰载导弹防空系统性能趋于恶化。因此,根据复杂电磁环境对舰载导弹防空系统影响的分析结果,制定科学的决策,提高抗电子攻击能力和导弹打击精度,达到提高舰载导弹防空系统信息与火力联合打击目标能力。     

基于复杂网络的作战描述模型研究*

针对传统作战模型重点关注兵力的毁伤,不能充分地反映信息时代作战的特点,提出了一个基于复杂网络的作战描述模型,把作战单元抽象成节点,把各单元之间的相互作用抽象成有向边,将战场描述为一个由传感器、决策器、影响器、目标四类节点组成的有向网络图。定义了网络模型的若干特征参数,把作战环看成是反映作战能力的指标,并区别分析了标准作战环和广义作战环,能更好地反映信息时代作战的特点。最后实例研究了传统作战条件下决策器连通程度的变化给作战能力带来的影响。     

高炮武器系统虚拟射击试验方法

首先介绍了高炮武器系统对空射击精度试验现状,针对传统试验方法存在的成本高昂、组织繁琐、试验周期长等不足,提出了一种基于抽样的虚拟射击试验方法,介绍了虚拟射击试验原理,给出了虚拟射击试验系统结构图,重点讨论了各系统的主要功能,最后给出了虚拟射击试验的数据流分析、组织实施流程和验证思路。