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ASEAN Community is one of the fastest growing economic in the world despite being relatively peaceful and stabilized, the region is one of the global most lucrative defence market. The majority of state promotes and develops some degree of defence industry capability, driven by a number of motivations. This paper examines the motivations behind the defence industry development to be economic growth, threat to national security and sovereignty, Technology capability, self-reliance and finally, wealth. It underlines the importance of license production, FDI, joint venture, offset technology and knowledge transfers to the development and sustainability of defence industry. It also categorizes member states into tiers grouping based on technological capacity previously defined by Keith Klause, Andrew Ross and Richard Bitzinger. Finally, it provides a brief overview of ASEAN defence industry landscape, describes the current industrial capacity and R&D activity.

This paper addresses an accelerated track for military veterans into bachelor's degrees in engineering. It is an update on a project that was first reported at FIE 2011. An initial thorough evaluation of the veterans' training, experiences, and expertise has been conducted with the option of granting academic credit where appropriate. Therefore, it is important to have contact with the military veteran prior to their arriving on campus to begin their schooling. Current policies give little credit for military experience or training. The development of on-line pre and post assessments and subject based tutorials are being used to accelerate the veteran's entry into the traditional math sequence. Veterans may have a base of technical knowledge acquired through the technical nature of their service posts. Assigning them to introductory level courses with traditional freshman and sophomore students does not respect their technical expertise nor challenge their capabilities and accustomed pace.

Equipment support system is the premise and foundation of equipment support work whose physic entity is support resource and operation entity is equipment support force. Equipment support force is the entity form of equipment support system. Based on the analysis of the properties of equipment support system, the article expounds the essence of equipment support construction in the construction of equipment support system.

Successful Battlefield Repair(BR) will enhance combat capability, however, a timely and effectual sequencing decision-making of Battlefield Damaged Equipment is necessary for a successful BR. The factors which affect the BR are analyzed, then the weight of attributes are defined through information entropy, besides a sequencing decision-making model of BR is proposed with the method of TOPSIS. At last, model is proved to be valid and practicable by an example of BR. The result shows that the model which can resolve sequencing of multi-equipment effectively.

According to the characters of the tacit knowledge transfer in organization, PSO is adopted to establish a behavior model of tacit knowledge transfer in military organization. The classical PSO and two types of advanced PSO simulate three different learning principles. The simulation result shows that tacit knowledge transfer increases mean knowledge level in organization, while different study behavior has distinct effect on tacit knowledge transfer, and they have the similar effect on knowledge assimilation in organization.

According to the problem that the application and order of Spares is not reasonable, propose to make the spares demand forecasting based on the combined forecasting method, comprehensively utilizing the grey model, linear exponential smoothing, secondary exponential smoothing and cubic exponential smoothing to optimize the results of these methods, solved it by the nonlinear programming method. The prediction results show that the model predicts accurately, with high utility and promotion.

The U.S. Small Business Innovation Research Program is a typical case using the government funds to promote private scientific and technological innovation. Studies show that the SBIR basically realizes the four social objectives proposed by the U.S. Congress. In this subject, first an overview for the research results of SBIR of U.S. DoD at home and abroad is carried out, and the focus lies in the management system, operation mechanism, and the implementation results of SBIR program. Finally, its enlightenment to our country is introduced combined with the national situation of China. The research indicates that the SBIR program has a strong reference for China's technological innovation, especially the military-technical innovation.

Scaling Product Ownership isn't something that happens overnight. It is an intentional and thoughtful process. Many organizational considerations must be made and teamsmust be optimized and assembled correctly. The following is an experience report on how the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force scaled product ownership on a multimillion dollar

Maturity model is applied in armored materiel warehouse logistics capability appraisal, an armored materiel warehouse logistics capability maturity model based on ANN is proposed and the logistics capability appraisal indexes are set up. The treatment method of “the dimensional analysis plus main composition analysis” is adopted in the input index and “GA-AHP plus collecting value statistics” is adopted in the output index. The model is also applied for other type warehouse logistics capability appraisal.

One of the current trends in most armies of the world is to reduce the size of the military, but this may cause serious problems in manpower for equipment support. To resolve this problem, the best way is to make use of non-military resources in the form of contractor support. This paper discusses the necessity and feasibility of using contractor support for new-type equipment based on the requirements for adapting the Chinese military to high-tech war, the requirements for achieving transformation in military affairs and the requirements for civil-military integration in equipment support.

In August 1940, Sir Henry Tizard led a team of scientists from the U.K. on a mission to the U.S. which was the springboard for critical new weapons and defense systems for World War II based on the cavity magnetron, recently developed in Britain.

The reliability of the warship system is very important to reducing its life cycle cost. By analyzing the effect of reliability on LCC of warship and setting up the model of the effect of reliability on LCC of warship. An example shows that the model can reflect the effect of reliability on LCC of warship effectively and have guidance significance to optimize the reliability indexes.

This article introduces an algorithm for passive detection and location of air defense threats, based on dynamic Bayesian networks. The algorithm can be applied to mobile robot swarms and uses data on the loss of communication with a UAV for the detection and location of passive enemy air defense threats. The article describes the algorithm and illustrates its work by example.

An overview of microwave photonics research for defense applications in Singapore is given. Several examples of ongoing work in this area by the Singaporean academia will also be discussed.

The Great Wall of Jin dynasty is a tight military defense system, relying on the integrity and systematic. It is more mature than the former. The structure of the Jin Great Wall is special designed for defending against nomadic cavalry, and some features inherited by the Great Wall of Ming dynasty.

As a certain battle for example, regard the regiment maintaining factory maintenance support task as a hypothetical cause, and according to the rule that the index of maintenance support capacity required under battlefield conditions which changes with time and the relation between the supply and demand of maintenance support capability provided by regiment maintaining factory, analyze the rule of regiment maintaining factory maintenance support capability under battlefield conditions. Based on the definition of some parameters and the devising of reasonable hypothesis, establish a model which can parse the regiment maintaining factory maintenance support capability under battlefield conditions, moreover, analyze and solve this model. Finally, propose two methods to improve regiment maintaining factory maintenance support capability by means of quantitative and qualitative analysis.

The environmental stress Missile suffered during the storage period is an important factor in their failure. This paper firstly introduced the significance of the reliability of the missile storage, and then described the natural environmental factors of the coastal areas. Finally, the failure mechanism and failure modes of the missile in these natural environmental factors were researched. Based on a coastal city of a typical year, temperature and humidity data impact analysis was carried out.

Border officers are a special group within the board range of army officers. They are responsible for the organization and implementation of the development of border armies. Therefore the competency of these officers will directly affect the successfulness of these developments. Through a review of relevant literatures this paper first gives an overview on the state of competency research. This paper then presents a method on how a competency model for border officers can be constructed. Future research in this area can utilize the framework in their construction of competency models.

The dynamics simulation prototype of floating automatic rifle was established. The mathematical-physical model of a kind of friction buffer that includes several friction loops and a buffer spring are developed. The experimental results agree well with the theoretical results and the simulation results. The obtained results are of great importance to improve the design quality of the automatic weapons, especially for those that have particular request for firing rate.

Storage reliability of portable air defense missiles is investigated by analysis, statistics and experiments. Vulnerable parts and main failure modes are explored based on analysis of the missile's composition and storage information. Next, tests and experiments of the long-stored missiles and parts are presented by the instance of infrared seeker. The experiments also show the weak links of the missiles. Moreover, storage reliability distribution types of the main parts are discussed and the storage reliability and life are assessed by statistics of the spot data. Conclusions are given in the end.

In 2000 just 17% of bachelor's degrees in the United States were in science and engineering while other countries boasted far more graduates. Additionally, by 2010, the U.S. share of world science and engineering PhDs will decrease by approximately 15%. The Department of Defense has issued a call for additional systems engineers. However, attaining advanced degrees is difficult as military students face a wide variety of issues contributing to a large incompletion rate. A need for a better educational structure exists in order to address the needs of military community. In response to this recognized need, several potential solutions emerged from a workshop called to address these issues. This paper outlines many of these solutions and advocates for their implementation.

Aimed at the design of distribution layer in defense works, the advances in distribution research were summarized and analyzed. Perfect distribution layer should be economical, practicable, reliable and have enough static/dynamic strength, which should weaken the stress waves and absorb the energy deriving from explosion to the greatest extent under the repeated impact loadings. And the development tendency was discussed. The results show: the main materials in distribution layer are still concrete or soil in the present stage and next period of time, and the perfect structure should be the combination of layered structure and cavities-contained structure. All those can be referenced for the design of advanced distribution layer in defense works.

The Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) is gaining significant position among the materials of modern period. The light weight and high strength composite is finding its way in various applications of Bio, Medical, Space and Defence fields. The growing use of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Carbon (CFRC) composites as high performing material in aerospace and defence industries has prompted studies in developing technology for machining of these composites in recent years. This paper emphasizes the characteristics and importance of this unique material. The varied and wide applications of CFRC with case studies were discussed in this paper.

Based on the DoDAF standards, this paper established the information weapon system architecture product models, converted the model to an executable CPN model, and verifyed the correctness of the logical behavior of the information-based weapon system architecture. Then by CPN model simulation analysis, it evaluated the performance of the information-based weapon system.

Based on understanding of troubleshooting issues to be solved during constructing Chinese modern defense companies, a related research idea is provided: in the clear context of national institutions, building research ideas of company's strategy of defense conversion, the approaches of development and mechanisms for efficient allocation of resources, achieving the integration of related strategies.

The defense industry is a national strategic industry. With the development of China market economic system and the economic globalization, organization reform of defense industry is inevitable in China. This paper firstly analyzes the characteristics of China defense industry; then puts forward three dimensions of China's defense industrial organization, including industrial competitiveness, defense support and the macro-environment. At last the re-integration of the aviation industry has been taken as an example to demonstrate the three dimensions of China's defense industrial organization.

How to improve and raise the reliability of high-new-technique ammunition and ammunition component has already become a problem not allowing of being neglected. The weak part of ammunition and the main environment sensitivity stress which influences its storage reliability have been analyzed in this paper. According to the theory of reliability enhancement testing and the technique characteristics of a certain ammunition component, a scheme of reliability enhancement testing for the ammunition component was designed. Reliability enhancement testing for the ammunition component was carried out by the scheme. The test results indicate that the scheme has a better effect on making sure of operating limit and destruct limit and exciting the latent defects of the ammunition component. The research results offered a method to develop reliability enhancement testing for the similar component of high-new-technique ammunition and a new technique approach to improve and raise the reliability of high-new-technique ammunition and ammunition component.

Aiming at the shortcoming of paying attention only to the combat performance and life cycle cost(LCC)during evaluating development plan of weapon systems, this paper establishes evaluation indicators of general performance of weapon systems, and uses grey interrelated analysis method to evaluate and optimize. This paper also brings forward a new weight determination method based on Euclidean Distance to improve it on the basis of analyzing the defects of classic grey interrelated analysis method, which avoids Subjective factors and makes the evaluation results more objective and accurate. Finally through an example in the practice of development project of defense equipment, the method's specific applications are introduced and the feasibility and effectiveness of this method verified.

The paper conducts a comprehensive evaluation technique from a three-dimensional view, in which an evaluation model with three dimensions of “history”, “status” and “future” is constructed. Then, the research on science research capability of national defense university based on the niche theory as an example is pulled into to illustrate the feasibility of the methodology from the empirical perspective. In the end, it analyzes the values of comprehensive evaluation indexes and the values of three dimensions comparatively to find out the reasons of changes on evaluation values. This study is expected to be helpful for national defense universities to analyze “history”, “status” and “future” of science research capability.

One of the major unintended consequences of Acquisition Reform efforts during the 1990s was a reduction in rigor of sustainment planning and effectiveness throughout materiel development programs. As the evidence of this problem mounted over the past decade, the Department of Defense (DoD) initiated efforts to rejuvenate sustainment planning during the early phases of program development. This article provides brief descriptions of the actions that have been taken, or that are being planned, to achieve this goal.

The Defense Standardization Program Office (DSPO) of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) has initiated a multiphase effort to update MIL-HDBK-217 (217), the military's often imitated and frequently criticized reliability prediction bible for electronics equipment. This document, based on field data fitted empirical models, has not been updated since 1995. The lack of updates led to expectations that its statistically-based empirical approach would be phased out. Especially after science-based Physics of Failure (PoF) [a.k.a. Reliability Physics] research led Gilbert F. Decker, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition to declare that MIL-HDBK-217 was not to appear in Army RFP acquisition requirements as it had been “shown to be unreliable and its use can lead to erroneous and misleading reliability predictions”[1].

This paper summarizes the results of a photonics component and subsystem reliability modeling study that was performed by Quanterion Solutions Incorporated (QSI) under a project sponsored through the Penn State Electro-Optics Center (EOC) by the Naval Air Systems Command under Contract Number N00421-03-D-0044 Delivery Order 08 (approved for public release: control number 09-770) [1]. The overall project consisted of four separate tasks.

In this paper, we analyze the motivation of the cooperative R&D between private S&T enterprises and state military companies from the angle of informal innovation network. The military industry is a natural monopoly industry which regulated by government. As a result, the informal innovation is a valuable way for private S&T enterprises to entry into the industry by cooperating with state military firms. By investigation we find that there are special motivations for the partners. Through informal network, they can achieve the following motivation: Mastering the civil technology, gaining the official R&D fund, enhancing the social status of private enterprises, strengthening the contact with government officials. Finally, we analyze the rules of the cooperative R&D by mathematical method.

Grey diagnosis method is introduced in this paper. Grey relation analysis is applied in model identification of the fault diagnosis. Take example for the fault diagnosis for shipboard chemical defense equipment. The grey diagnosis methods for shipboard chemical defense equipment are studied by applying grey system theory and database. The theory of fault diagnosis by grey relation degree is put forward. The resolving project is set up based on grey theory and database and the arithmetic and program design flow of grey relation degree are provided. It's proved by experiments that the arithmetic has merits in both high accuracy and economical practicability.

In order to gain efficiencies throughout the fleet training cycle and conserve fuel, the Navy is in the process of increasing its use of synthetic training technologies. Maximum training value and increased readiness result from the most realistic training possible, which must include a robust and realistic physical environment. Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC) will be providing meteorological and oceanographic data and expertise to enhance Fleet Synthetic Training (FST) events. This paper describes the issues associated with inserting operational data into modeling and simulation training events.

This paper provides an update on research and development within the Australian defence industry of microwave photonics systems and their application to electronic warfare (EW) receivers. The major developments have diverged into two primary streams: the development of EW receivers to accommodate the signal transmission characteristics of microwave photonic links and development of broadband optical signal processing components.

This paper is intended to study the manufacturers' decision-making for RD and at the same time, setting basic admission criterion to enable manufactures' ability well-matched, and in this way, the government could induce the manufacturers' investment decisions to the investment equilibrium that it desired.

The Turkish defense industry has been growing significantly since 1970s. The majority of the $416 million USD reserved for R&D budget in 2005 was spent for defense and aerospace industry. The total revenue of the defense companies in Turkey was around $2.2 billion USD in 2008. The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) of Turkey aims to increase the average portion to meet the system requirements through local infrastructure to 50 percent and also to increase the export of defense services and goods to 1 billion USD by 2011. SSM also plans to quadruple the portion of Turkish defense industry in the NATO projects. Companies operating in the defense sector utilize the latest technologies and they have to cope with the fast pace of changes in the technology. On the other hand, the Turkish defense industry is growing significantly and aiming to keep and even accelerate this growth. Therefore, technology management plays a vital role in Turkish defense industry and this research investigates the current status of technology management in the Turkish defense industry.

Based on the system analysis on model of military- civilian industry product fusion development in military industry enterprises, this paper builds the system dynamics (SD) mathematical model which characterizes its development model. By utilizing the Vensim software simulation and regulation analysis technology, it analyzes the main variables to affect the military-civilian industry product fusion development in military industry enterprises, through the analysis it puts forward the corresponding management policy, which achieves the purpose of analyzing the management problems in military industry enterprises effectively using the method of system science.

This paper provides an update on research and development within the Australian defence industry of microwave photonics systems and their application to electronic warfare (EW) receivers. The major developments have diverged into two primary streams: the development of EW receivers to accommodate the signal transmission characteristics of microwave photonic links and development of broadband optical signal processing components.