Operational research in the UK Ministry of Defence: an overview

Operational research in the UK Ministry of Defence: an overview

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Article ID: iaor20051421
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 55
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 319
End Page Number: 332
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
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Keywords: practice
Abstract:

The paper presents a survey of operational research (OR) as it is currently used in the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). After a short historical introduction summarising developments since 1945, it identifies the impact which the end of the Cold War has had on defence operational analysis (OA), as the discipline is generally called within MoD, in terms of the problems studied, the technical challenges presented and the techniques employed. The factors, both external and internal, that have led to the MoD maintaining and indeed expanding its OA activity against a background of falling defence budgets are discussed in the context of previously reported research on the survival and success of OR groups.

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