Quarrelsome committees in US defense acquisition: the KC-X case

When the US Air Force set out to acquire a new aerial tanker (the KC-X), two highly suitable alternatives were offered. What could have been a short and simple source selection turned into a prolonged embarrassment. The original selection of 100 leased KC-767s was made in May 2003. But the KC-46 is expected to be operational in 2017 – more than a decade later. Our primary purpose here is to narrate and explain key events in the KC-X program. We search for useful paradigms, based in part on the US Government being better viewed as a quarrelsome committee than a monopsonist. In addition, we consider what this case might tell us about the US defense acquisition system.     

Governmental Re-organization in Counterinsurgency Context: Foreign Policy Program Transfer and Operation Switchback in South Vietnam

Foreign policy program transfer, the shifting of implementation responsibility for a foreign policy program from one organization to another, is a ubiquitous, yet under-studied, counterinsurgency phenomenon. This article conceptually develops program transfer as an important object of study; analyzes, using archival sources, an empirical case of program transfer, Operation Switchback, drawn from US counterinsurgency practice in South Vietnam; and formulates two preliminary theoretical claims related to program transfer: (1) transferred programs will tend to be altered in accordance with the characteristics of the gaining organization, and (2) program transfer may act as a signal or early-warning indicator of foreign policy change.     

Determining optimal sizes of bounded batches with rejection via quadratic min‐cost flow

In this article, we consider a single machine scheduling problem, in which identical jobs are split into batches of bounded sizes. For each batch, it is allowed to produce less jobs than a given upper bound, that is, some jobs in a batch can be rejected, in which case a penalty is paid for each rejected job. The objective function is the sum of several components, including the sum of the completion times, total delivery cost, and total rejection cost. We reduce this problem to a min‐cost flow problem with a convex quadratic function and adapt Tamir's algorithm for its solution. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 64: 217–224, 2017     

基于累积前景理论的时间矩阵多属性综合评判模型

针对动态多属性方案排序优选决策问题,提出了一种基于累积前景理论的时间矩阵序列动态多属性综合评判系统模型。依据累积前景理论,将时间矩阵序列动态多属性决策转化为关于属性期望的益损时间矩阵序列动态决策,综合考虑各属性权重、各时间点的权重,计算各方案的最终综合前景值,并依据其大小对方案进行综合评判排序。最后给出了一个决策实例。     

一种新型的目标分配形式及算法

提出了一种新型的目标分配形式--顺序攻击目标分配形式,并以地空导弹拦截攻击机机群为研究对象,给出了均匀目标分配形式和顺序攻击目标分配形式,以及在机群无干扰武器和有干扰武器状态下,地空导弹拦截效果的算法模型.数值分析表明,顺序攻击目标分配形式有较好的攻击效果.     

Fuzzy数序的CV指标法及改进

确定Fuzzy数的序是一个重要的理论问题,有广泛的应用价值.CV指标法基于Fuzzy数概率分布的均值及方差对Fuzzy数进行定序,但在Fuzzy数概率分布的均值及方差的一些组合下存在失效问题,文中通过实例对此进行了分析,定义了综合Fuzzy数均值、方差及信息量的限位系数并给出了基于限位系数的Fuzzy数定序方法.     

非线性系统 Hammerstein 模型辨识

本文利用差集理论设计的输入信号。辨识了Hammerstein模型的脉冲响应函数,并进一步得到了非线性部分多项式的系数。本文得到的公式简单,辨识结果依概率收敛于真值。文中给出了仿真结果。     

电磁场式头盔瞄准系统计算机提高实时性能问题

头盔瞄准系统是一种时分制的电磁场探测方法。在这种方法中有个非常关键的问题是实时性能问题。该文对控制电磁场的发射、接收以及实时滤波提出了一种独特的软件编排方法,这种方法已取得了较明显的效果;该文还探讨了从计算机硬件编排上进行改进的设想,以期获得更好的实时性能。     

火炮射表数据处理程序及使用说明

在文献［１－４］的基础上,给出火炮射表数据处理用ＴｒｕｅＢＡＳＩＣＣｏｍｐｉｌｅｒ实现的程序清单和与之相关的使用说明。并介绍该程序的组成、设计特点、主要变量和使用注意事项,以及数据文件的命名法。另外还详细讨论了程序故障诊断及维护问题。     

后勤管理信息系统生成系统的设计与实现

本文论述了一个后勤管理信息系统生成系统(LMIS-GS)的设计与实现,本系统综合采用了数据库模式自动生成技术、软件可重用技术、操作对象、控制信息与程序相分离的模块编码技术,系统中通过引入部件的概念,把庞大复杂的LMIS系统划分为若干个可独立研制开发的部件实体。LMIS的生成就是部件的组装,部件的生成就是数据基的组装与填写。系统还提供了数据库生成的两种方式,即可自动生成3NF的关系数据库模式。