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100	1		_aAMANN Daniel
700			_aKIHLANDER Ingrid
700			_aMAGNUSSON Mats
245			_aAffordability aspects in the development of defence equipment: _bcase studies of concept generation in the defence industry/ _cDaniel Amann, Ingrid Kihlander & Mats Magnusson
260			_c2021
520			_aCost escalation for many complex defence equipment is arguably not sustainable. Customer driven requirements have led to an exponential increase in costs by pushing frontiers of technology to support primarily incremental improvements of traditional equipment concepts. Accordingly, affordability has become a more discussed subject in defence acquisition. This paper addresses the process of generating complex defence equipment concepts. The purpose is to explore how affordability is managed in that process and to identify possible leads to how an unsustainable cost escalation for this type of equipment can be curbed. This is done by studying two cases of concept generation of future combat air equipment systems from a company process perspective. This applied micro perspective on cost escalation showed that none of the concepts generated in these two cases were assessed to curb the cost escalation. Further, the innovation model for the generated concepts, with only one notable exception, was incremental. Nevertheless, the empirical observations from these two cases offer leads on how to potentially foster a more innovative and affordability-oriented concept generation process for future defence equipment, as well as indicating avenues for future research.
650			_aAFFORDABILITY
650			_aDEFENCE EQUIPMENT
650			_aCONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
650			_aINNOVATION
773			_aDefence and Peace Economics: _gVol 32, No. 7, November 2021, pp.847-863
598			_aMILITARY
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2020.1733896 _zClick here for full text
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