Globalisation in the defence industry: An exploration of the paradigm for us and European defence firms and the implications for being global players

This paper explores some of the key issues associated with the restructuring of the defence industry. A comparison is made between the US and the European Defence Industrial Bases in terms of the drivers for change and the paradigms within which change has taken place. Having shown that some very important differences exist, the paper then explores the approaches that have been adopted for industry consolidation and references them to the academic literature on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and strategic alliances (SAs). Given that most of the key defence players recognise the need to be global players, the paper presents an argument that the European firms’ experience of operating with a wide range of forms of corporate alliance will serve them in good stead for operating on a global defence scale. US firms, in contrast, have focused largely on M&A activity.     

军事信息系统中台建设

随着国防信息化建设的快速推进,大量军事信息系统被开发,在开发过程中产生了诸如数据不统一、不标准以及服务重复建设等问题,既浪费了大量的建设和维护资源,也导致技术难以得到沉淀,数据不能被充分利用.中台在大型企业的成功应用,包括在电子政务发展中的规划,以及美军的全球信息栅格与军事云建设,都在着力解决类似问题.本文认为,军事信...     

舰艇作战指挥决策模型可信度评估流程分析

舰艇作战指挥决策模型的可信度是一项复杂的系统工程,而评估流程又是这项工程的基础性工作,直接影响到可信度评估的成败。运用了评估学的基本理论对舰艇作战指挥决策模型可信度评估流程进行分析,将可信度评估分为三个阶段,即评估准备阶段、评估实施阶段和评估总结阶段,研究和阐述了这三个阶段的具体工作、要求和标准等,最后,建立了专家评审流程图、可信度评估指标体系以及用于可信度评估指标的数据采集表,分析对比了数据处理方法的优缺点。     

From elite consumption to popular opinion: framing of the US drone program in Pakistani newspapers

The United States has conducted armed drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. While there has been some recent work on Pakistani public opinion about drones, there is very little research on how Pakistan’s media characterize the US drone program. This is an important gap in understanding the determinants of Pakistani popular perceptions of this program. Decades of research has shown that “news framing”, a process by which certain aspects of a complex concept are emphasized in political communications with others played down, influences individual cognition while forming political opinions. In this essay, we address this lacuna by assembling an unprecedented sample of editorials about the drone program from three English newspapers and one Urdu newspaper and analyzing the news frames within them. We next compare the trends in these news frames to public opinion data collected by Pew between the spring of 2009 and 2014. Initially, most Pakistanis were unaware of the drone program, media coverage of the program expanded as drone strikes increased in frequency. While Pakistanis became more cognizant of the US drone strikes, even by 2014 large minorities remained unaware. Pakistani public opinion strongly reflected the top media frames, particularly those that are negative. This is an important finding suggesting that newspaper editorials are a good barometer of Pakistani opinions despite the fact that only information elites rely upon newspapers for political information.     

Reforming China’s defense industry

ABSTRACT

Even with sizable economic inputs, access to foreign technologies, and considerable political will, China, up until the late 1990s, experienced only limited success when it came to the local design, development, and manufacture of advanced conventional weapons. Not surprisingly, therefore, reforming the local defense industry in order to upgrade its technology base and manufacturing capabilities and to make armaments production more efficient and cost-effective has long preoccupied the Chinese leadership. The fact that most of these efforts had little positive impact on the country’s military technological and industrial capabilities only encouraged Beijing to experiment with additional reforms in the hopes of finally getting it right.     

大学生创新能力的培养与课程教学

从创新精神、创造性思维、创新实践能力3个方面论述了创新能力,并着重论述了在课程教学中如何培养学生的这一能力。     

身管内弹道性能改变量的静态标定研究

目前国内外静态标定火炮身管内弹道性能改变量的方法,都存在着原理和精度不高的缺陷。采用多特征截面的标定方法可取得满意的精度,本文论述了其理论基础、精度及应用领域。     

采用神经网络技术降低机电设备BIT虚警

机电设备 Ｂ Ｉ Ｔ 的突出问题是虚警率高，重要原因之一是 Ｂ Ｉ Ｔ 系统传感器通路故障。本文选取神经网络技术进行传感器通路故障诊断，剖析某大型船舶动力装置机电设备 Ｂ Ｉ Ｔ 系统中传感器通路的故障机理和类型，得到其故障样本数据，经过神经网络学习训练后对实际系统进行故障诊断和识别，实验结果表明该方法简洁、有效，能够有效地诊断故障并识别出故障类型，具有实用价值。     

基于邻域灰度分布的IR弱小目标检测

图像中邻域内灰度起伏程度越大 ,各点灰度值占邻域内总灰度值的比率的平方和越大 ,由此提出了一种基于邻域灰度分布的弱小目标检测方法。同时考虑到复杂自然背景 ,特别是背景中含有大量边缘和高频点的情况 ,提出了目标检测的改进方法。最后 ,利用邻域判决法实现运动目标的进一步分离。实验表明该方法能够极大地减少候选目标点数 ,准确有效地检测复杂自然背景中的红外运动弱小目标 ,适合于实时和多目标的检测     

EMS型低速磁浮列车U型电磁铁设计方法研究

针对EMS型低速磁浮列车的U型电磁铁,研究其气隙磁密及结构参数的设计方法.气隙磁密应选为铁芯材料的磁导率下降到其最大值的90％时所对应的磁密.结构参数包括极长、极高、窗宽、窗高和轭厚,极长影响牵引效率及过弯能力,极宽影响承载能力和导向刚度,窗宽和窗高影响重量,但随轨宽而定,轭厚按磁轭与磁极的磁密相等的原则来选取.