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COOPERATION VERSUS ADVOCACY IN DECISION MAKING
Pages 38-41

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... Key elements of this philosophy include the need to "emphasize thinking about the entire system rather than individual operations in the system," to "make decisions based on data," and to "emphasize nonhierarchical teamwork for decision making and implementation" (Fecso, 1993:27~. The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics recently published a report (Friedman et al., 1992:1)
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... In the DoD setting, an important distinction emerged between the sharing of information to produce more informed decisions and the voluntary cooperation of military services engaged in a zero-sum game that is, competing for identical missions during a period of declining budgets. Workshop participants believe that better archiving and sharing of information for example, by constructing a component reliability data base could be achieved within the current constraints of an inherently adversarial system.
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... Stephen Vardeman suggested two possible roles for the OT&E office: (1) an end-of-the-line inspection station expected to certify the appropriateness of particular weapon acquisitions or (2)
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... Vardeman also suggested that such an office should treat the various operational testing and evaluation strategies for all acquisitions simultaneously and in terms of their likely joint impact on the overall expected military value. Other workshop participants similarly questioned the realism and desirability of rigid specifications.
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